So, we have a government, albeit one led by Little Emil Boc and which includes Elena Udrea as Minister of Tourism. Odds on the same government being in office at this time next year?
Slim and none, and slim is out of town.
Next year is another election year: presidential elections. Traian Basescu is up for re-election [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Notes & Queries
We’ve Got a Stalker
A while ago, we used to write an occasional column in Ziarul Financiar. Nothing spectacular, just the usual man in the pub rantings of a chippy expat. The archive, should anyone be remotely interested, is here.
Anyway, someone who is interested is someone called Maria-Cristina Serban, who keeps sending us emails with little comments, the main [...]
From Ferrari to Fundeni
Turns out that yesterday’s nomination of Elena Udrea as the new Minister of Tourism was not the most bizarre nomination of the day. No, that honour goes to Ion Bazac, of the PSD, best known until now as the go to man in Romania for Ferraris.
No doubt his experience of selling luxury cars will be [...]
The Standard We Can Expect?
If Bucharest does ever open a Tourist Information Centre (see discussion below this post) it is to be hoped that it will do a better job than the Romanian National Tourist office. Here’s their map of the Bucharest metro…See that station at the eastern end of the red line, Antilopa? Doesn’t exist.
Still, I’m sure Elena [...]
Udrea: Minister of Tourism
Now this, you really couldn’t make up.
Elena Udrea, left, whose only qualification for anything appears to be the fact that she doesn’t look bad in a bikini, has been named provisional Minister of Tourism in the new government of Little Emil Boc.
Now, while she does look fair in a bikini – we’ll give her that [...]