Ryan Air, which currently flies one Romanian route, from Constanta to Pisa, Italy, announced today that it would begin flying two further routes next year: Constanta to Bologna, Italy, and Constanta to an unnamed city in Spain. Corina Martin, head of the Association for the Promotion of the Romanian Coast, hailed the move as a [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
With This Tree, I Be Wed
Incredible but true: if you live in Bucharest and want to get married you will – from January 1st next year – first have to prove that you have planted a tree. So reports the Romanian daily newspaper Adevarul today, which claims that anyone wanting to register a car in the capital will also have [...]
Save the Children
A study released yesterday by the Romanian Child Protection Agency ANPDC startlingly revealed that more than 65 per cent of Romanians think it’s perfectly acceptable to beat children. Hardly a surprise, though it does rather explain an awful lot of what you see on the city’s streets.
We Love English. Not.
More bad English. Local television station Prima TV, whose one decent programme, Cronica Carcotasilor, is not as half as good as it once was (and which is in fact a rip-off of the Canale 5 show Striscia la notizie) recently launched its Autumn schedules, with the fantastic slogan, in English, We Love. The slogan We [...]
The Tyranny of Free Content
Much consternation this morning in the incestuous world of the self-important Romanian blogger (honestly: if you understand Romanian you really should read some of the stuff these fools – who actually think they have something to say – post on their penis-extension blogs). Anyway, turns out that the Romanian Copyright Protection Agency (ORDA) wants to [...]