The Good News: Baneasa Aurel Vlaicu, unofficially Europe’s Worst Airport, was today closed, and all flights moved to Otopeni Henri Coanda. The Bad News: It is just a temporary measure. Baneasa opens again on October 12th. In the meantime expect long queues and delays as Otopeni struggles to cope with the extra traffic.
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
More Badly Parked Cars
Can’t find a parking space? No problem; just park in the middle of the road…
Desperation & Extreme Measures
Obviously having not yet persuaded enough idiots to buy apartments a long, long way from the centre of Bucharest, the developers of Cosmopolis (laughably marketed as Bucharest’s first European district) have resorted to some rather desperate measures. Take a look at the map they now use to show the development’s location on their website, and [...]
Dodgy Bucharest Taxis
We recently decided to try and document as many rip-off taxis as we could find. Camera at the ready we are stalking the streets on the lookout for any taxi charging over the odds. Here’s the first: Pimex Taxi? Never heard of it. The fact that is a ‘Partener Orient Taxi’ starts alarm bells ringing: [...]
Just Don’t Ever Get Sick
A while ago a young Romanian – who has for some years lived in the United States – wrote to us to express her indignation at the suggestion we make (in fact, accusation we make) in Bucharest In Your Pocket that in Romanian hospitals corruption is rife. As we put it: ‘in hospitals you will [...]