Tuesday, April 14, 2009

You couldn’t make it up. Really: YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP

by Craig Turp April 14, 2009 Romania

 In Your Pocket (IYP) has a number of outposts in wierd and wonderful places. Tirana, capital of Albania, is not the least of them. Now, as we do, this afternoon we received a package from the IYP office in Tirana, packed with the latest editions of Tirana and Pristina In Your Pocket.  As usual, the original [...]

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Bucharest then and now

by Craig Turp April 14, 2009 Bucharest

 Browsing through this fine collection of photos featuring Bucharest as it once was, it is striking how similar recently built (recently as in then – we are thinking early 1970s; before the metro was built at least)  apartment blocks look to those being built now, all over the capital. Given that the block above now looks like [...]

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