Monday, June 22, 2009

Where can we find Bucharest’s best ice cream? Because it ain’t Betty Ice

by Craig Turp June 22, 2009 Bucharest

 As anyone who has children will know, there are few things on earth more dangerous than a two year old with an ice cream cornet, which is why, given the option, we always go for the ‘stick it in a cup and give us a spoon’ option. So we tried that yesterday, at an ice [...]

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Romanian trains are slow and useless

by Craig Turp June 22, 2009 Romania

 We’d not been on a Romanian train for well over a year before last Friday, when we headed off to Brasov for a research trip ahead of the imminent publication of a Brasov In Your Pocket Mini-Guide. In that time Romanian railways (CFR) appears to have gone backwards. First the good. The trains themselves are [...]

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