The Bucharest Life kids are off to the countryside this week for their annual peasant experience. We went to get their train tickets this morning, one each for them and one for Bucharest Life’s mother-in-law. Not for the first time this month, we turned up at the CFR agency on Strada Brezoianu and were left [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
The all-singing, all-dancing Bucharest sightseeing tour bus
With eternal thanks to George Hari Popescu, who wrote about this yesterday on his terrific blog, it now looks as though Bucharest is to get some kind of tourist bus route. The final decision will be taken on Tuesday, but it looks a done deal. In a nutshell, some kind of hop-on, hop-off bus (probably [...]
Otopeni Airport: How to avoid Fly Taxi
The wealthy, or those who like to see monopolies thrive can ignore this post… It is much easier than you think to avoid the monopoly held by expensive taxi company Fly Taxi at Otopeni Airport, Bucharest main airport. (Of taxis at Baneasa airport, stand by for a separate post). Fly Taxi, to remind you, charges [...]
Desperate dictator goes shopping. Again
Increasingly desperate to prove that he is a ‘man of the people,’ Romanian president Traian Basescu yesterday went shopping at Carrefour, in a carefully planned and stage-managed attempt to boost his flailing poll ratings, badly affected by the election – which his party arranged – of his daughter Elena to the European Parliament. Perfectly timed [...]
Athenee Palace Hilton Bucharest downgraded? No
You barely have to read between the lines of this scandalously wrong story to see that there is more in play than a hotel’s grading. For the record, the Athenee Palace Hilton has not been downgraded from five to four stars. Besides, even if it had, stars in Romania mean nothing because the Romanian Ministry [...]