Most likely you don't need any advice on that but I'd like to invite you to take a tour with me in a place where you can do both in the same time. Obviously spending time and money implies you have both. Anyway, yesterday I made a trip to visit the shopping center that is situated at the outskirts of Targu Mures.
I'm not the one to live my life in these shopping centers, eating, watching movies and shopping like crazy all day every day (I wish I had the time though), but once in a while it's ok to have some fun. So today I'm going to show you a place where you can spend all your money and time.
It is called Shopping City and as far as I know it's the biggest in Targu Mures. You can get there by car or there are a few busses that can drop you there and also pick you up to take you in the city.
It has a huge parking lot, so finding an empty lot can be difficult only at nights I suppose.
Right at the entrance there's an area for relaxing, most likely to smoke as well as indoor smoking is prohibited in my country.
The architecture may differ a bit from what you see in the major European cities and this one has only one level, but you can find most of the brand boutiques here as well.
When you have so many shops in one place, visiting all of them is not an option. It was no my intention anyway, so I tried to take into inventory the shops lined up on both sides.
Banks are always a must, no matter where you go and as we're moving towards a self banking world, ATM's and other boxes offering similar services are always a must. As I'm part of the new ecosystem, was curious to see what those ATM's know. I took a closer photo of the ATM but I'm not going to post it as there was nothing interesting there to see, just the regular operations. I did not lost hope though and continued my journey of discovery.
These selective bins are not new, you see them everywhere and it's a good thing. Behind the bin was a bit of a heaven for those who like sweets. Those barrels were full of goodies. Ok, basically none of them was full as there was a tray on the top that had the sweets and the rest was empty, or served as storage (just guessing), but it looked great.
Two of the major telecommunication companies have representation there. It's possible there are more, but I did not take notes :)
There were a lot of sales, here for example you could get up to 40% off of the prices, which is a huge financial help, if you find what you're looking for.
Pull & Bear is a popular one, well liked.
The top floor is always different from the others and in most of the cases means restaurants, sandwich shops, bars and entertainment.
Here you need to have a lot of self control, otherwise you end up spending a lot of money and eating like a pig. Too bad you can't smell what I had to, passing through.
There's a nice dining area with nice green grass, which is fake by the way. However, you can sit down and have a meal or a drink with your friends and enjoy the atmosphere.
KFC also can't me missing, so obviously I found them there, with their ordering station waiting for customers.
Kids can't be neglected, so there was this huge playground for them, where to spend some time and not worry about parents giving them instructions about how to behave.
This was a playground for bigger kids.
Another area for bigger kids.
So as you can see, you can lose yourself here and your money as well, if you have some.
You can take some photos here and there's a cinema as well.
However, the story does not end here. After taking some photos up here, I headed downstairs thinking of checking out some of the stores. When I god down the stairs, I was approached by two security guys, who informed me that I'm not allowed to take photos. My first reaction was WTF? 😲 I told them I did not know I'm not allowed to take photos and asked the one speaking to me, where is the sigh about that? Obviously he could not answer my question, he mumbled something like the guys at the entrance should or should not do something, I could not understand what he meant. I did not want to seem disrespectful as he was polite, so I said I'm sorry, i did not know and put my phone away. They most likely watched me the whole time from the control room. The funny thing in this was that this security guy was one head shorter than me, so I had to look down on him, literally. I don't consider myself tall, just average, but this guys was short :)
So what I was looking for the whole time was the crypto ATM. I did not know if they had one, but was expecting to find one as we're in 2023. Finally, I was able to spot it downstairs next to the Carrefour entrance, but could not take any photos after what happened with security. However, I took out my phone and compared the prices. I knew the ATM would give me a way higher price as they have to make some profit as well and they are working like a bank, not like a big exchange like Binance for example, that has volume and can cover the expenses with less. I bought crypto from the ATM before. This time I only checked the selling price of BTC, which was 1000€ higher than on Binance. 😳 Privacy has a price, so if you want to buy some crypto that lands in your cold wallet, bypassing banks and exchanges, this is the price to pay.
Anyway, if you're in the area and want a place to eat or do some shopping, this is definitely a good one.
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