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Old School Bucharest advertising 26 Aug 2013 | 11:15 am
We’ve now seen this ad in at least three places around Bucharest: this particular one we snapped at Piata Romana: Translation: 169 years of military tradition in the Bucharest fire service Yep, some...
Bucharest’s Tallest Buildings (3) 24 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Back in 2011 we took Son of Bucharest Life to the top of the InterContinental, and wondered aloud about which building in Bucharest was the tallest. We soon discovered that the list of tall buildings...
More fun with CFR 23 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm
The kids came back from the countryside last night, on the same sleeper train we wrote about last week. How long was the train delayed this time? Just the two hours and five minutes. It’s getting wo...
Night train to Bucharest 15 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Unless you have really not been paying attention, then it would not have escaped your notice that we have spent the past fortnight at the other end of Romania, in Petresti, Satu Mare. All good things...
Castle Karolyi 11 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
We have spent most of last week in the countryside, at our in-laws’ place in Petresti, Satu Mare – a village we have in the past dubbed ‘the best kept in Romania.‘ Though we generally do little excep...
The day Eva Longoria came to Petresti 5 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
There we were, relaxing with a visinata in our in-laws’ back garden when the peace was rather abruptly – and rudely – disturbed by the noise of several hundred motorbike engines. Assuming that the Hu...
The wonderful things you find in Romanian village shops 4 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Modern parents might want to look away now. We were at the local village shop earlier today (we are currently enjoying our annual trip to our in-laws’ village – Petresti, Satu Mare) when we spotted t...
Bucharest IYP 84 3 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
And… relax. The glorious August-September 2013 issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket is now done and dusted, meaning that we can decamp to the countryside for our annual attempt to blend in with the loca...
More Romanian football madness 2 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
Remember this post of a couple of weeks ago about the strange case of Rapid Bucharest? In brief, Rapid were relegated to the second division of Romanian football (Liga 2) at the end of last season af...
Say it loud: we drink visinata and we’re proud 29 Jul 2013 | 06:38 pm
There are certain Romanian delicacies which are – we think it is fair to say – an acquired taste: a phrase which applies to drink as much as to food. While we have come to actually quite like a few o...
