March 2009

Dambovita Centre and the politics of Gica Contra

by Craig Turp March 31, 2009 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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Badly parked cars get their own page

by Craig Turp March 31, 2009 Bucharest

  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. Send any submissions to editor@bucharestlife.net.

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Mutu Time

by Craig Turp March 27, 2009 Media

 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). [...]

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Bucharest in new cart/horse mix-up

by Craig Turp March 26, 2009 Romania

  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 [...]

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A quick guide to Bucharest logic

by Craig Turp March 25, 2009 Bucharest

 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. [...]

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Start handing out ASBOs

by Craig Turp March 24, 2009 Bucharest

 The thinking man’s radio station, Guerilla, this week launched an ‘anti-mitocanie‘ campaign. For those of you who gave up on Romanian a long time ago, mitocanie can be translated as ‘anti-social.’ Basically, Guerilla has launched a campaign against anti social behaviour. You may remember that the newly elected Labour government in the UK tried something [...]

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Haydn’s Back

by Craig Turp March 23, 2009 Romania

 We really must get up to Brasov and see our dear friend Haydn Deane very soon. Meantime, he’s been back on Happy Hour singing about Brasov. Funny how people never write songs about Bucharest…

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