The cream of Romanian pop and rock will tomorrow compete for the prestigious honour of representing Romania at May’s Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. Twelve acts, chosen this week after two, tight semi-finals, will do battle for the right to go to Moscow and finish 14th, before returning home to recriminations about a lack of [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
Bucharest Life fails to find reasonable excuse for putting another photo of Elena Udrea on its website
Bucharest Life was thrown into crisis today when it couldn’t think of anything about Elena Udrea that would warrant publication of another photo of Romania’s fruity Minister of Tourism.
An immediate investigation was launched.
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Udrea makes sensible suggestion. So do we
Elena Udrea’s suggestion earlier this month that Romania should make some kind of attempt to copy Hungary and become a world-class destination for lovers of thermal baths is not the worst suggestion you will hear this year. Done right, it could be a good one.
Met with much derision when appointed Minister of Tourism, Udrea has [...]
It’s getting boring…
…but alas it’s true. Bucharest’s firemen (famous until now for possessing the slowest fire engines in Europe – have you ever seen the ’speed’ they go?) were yesterday called out to rescue a stray dog, fallen into a canal.
Yes, really.
The words ‘resources, waste, what about people: where do they fit in?’ immediately spring to mind.
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Another Day, Less Fuss
After yesterday’s anniversary of the birth of Nicolae Ceausescu, given – as usual – much attention in print, online and on television, today’s rather more important memorial has so far passed unnoticed in the local press.
Today folks, is Holocaust Memorial Day, though here in Romania they are hoping the whole thing will go away lest [...]