First, the good news. Bucharest city council yesterday approved the construction of the Dambovita Centre, a project that will replace
with
Well, so they say anyway. Much depends on whether the developer runs out of money we guess.
Anyway, we have written about the project before and do not want to bore you for too long. So this will be [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Dambovita Centre and the politics of Gica Contra
Badly parked cars get their own page
Walk in the road and think yourself lucky
Too many to keep posting willy nilly, we’ve decied to ghettoise the cretins and give them their own page.
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Mutu Time
It’s a ritual we are now highly familiar with. An international football match approaches. (For the record we detest international football. It gets in the way of the real thing, club football. International football is by and large watched by provincial wankers with no decent team of their own to support. There. It’s off our chests).
Anyway, [...]
Bucharest in new cart/horse mix-up
The cart, yesterday. Horse not pictured.
Bucharest’s authorities have once again put the cart before the horse with the appearance around the city of recycling bins, such as those pictured above, which appeared at the end of our street last week.
Now, the debate about recycling per se is one which rages elsewhere. What concerns us is that [...]
A quick guide to Bucharest logic
Reprimanded someone yesterday evening for parking on the pavement, meaning that I had to take a detour around his car and on to a busy road. His reply?
“Cand primaria imi da locul de parcare o sa parchez regulamentar. Pana atunci, parchez unde vreau.”
(When the council gives me a parking place I’ll park legally. Until then [...]