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Posts on ‘May 20th, 2009’

Timeshare salesmen hit Bucharest

UPDATE (22.5.09) Tomorrow, Saturday, at 22.05 Antena 3 will – in a rare case of a television news station actually doing a bit of real journalism – broadcast a programme exposing the shysters we refer to below. — A sign of Romania’s growing affluence? The timeshare scam, one of the most notorious cons of modern [...]

Opening of the Bucharest Metro, 1979

As we explained a couple of weeks ago, our six year old is currently obsessed by metro trains, and in his quest for knowledge now spends the two hours he is allowed each day on the computer scouring You Tube for videos about metros. Yesterday he came up with a gem. An original report on [...]