Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Buying train tickets in Romania

by Craig Turp June 17, 2009 Romania

 Is not easy. Like a lunatic (or a new arrival: I mean, we’ve been here a while, so we should know what to expect…) we went to the website of Romanian railways, CFR, and tried to purchase a ticket to Brasov online. Did we succeed? Of course not. After ten minutes of trying to find [...]

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Cancellation of third-rate motor racing event sparks Twitter outrage

by Craig Turp June 17, 2009 Bucharest

Not since thousands of western liberals began trying to bring down the Iranian government by sending endless Twitter messages from the comfort of their offices has Twitter known such outrage: Bucharest City Council has cancelled the Bucharest Ring! How dare they!

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Get lost, Zara’s coming

by Craig Turp June 17, 2009 Bucharest

We are not entirely sure if that’s how it was put, but the conversation between the management of the Bucharest Mall and erstwhile clients Leonardo and Bigotti couldn’t have been much different.

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