June 2009

June 13-15, 1990

by Craig Turp June 13, 2009 Bucharest

  Still Ion lliescu walks the streets a free man. Still he justifies calling in the miners to put down what should have been Romania’s real revolution. And still many people in Bucharest think he did the right thing: indeed, the worst thing about this film (an excerpt from Speranta by Sorin Iliesiu) are the [...]

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Dinamo. Doomed.

by Craig Turp June 12, 2009 Sport

  The Court of Arbitration in Sport (whose decision are final) yesterday ruled in favour of Romanian football club FC Timisoara, who had been deducted six points by the Romanian FA (on Fifa’s instruction) earlier in the season for a technicality regarding the name of the club. The six points leapfrog Timisoara over Dinamo Bucharest, [...]

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Bucharest Life is alive and well, but is Clicknet?

by Craig Turp June 12, 2009 Bucharest

  So we’re back, almost as we were before, but not quite. WordPress 2.8 is one big FAIL in our book. The auto-install function simply didn’t work, and, more than that, actually deleted a ton of stuff we could have done without losing. A good job we backed up only the day before. Then there [...]

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Team from town with more stray dogs than people wins Romanian championship

by Craig Turp June 11, 2009 Sport

  I was wrong. Back in January I said Unirea Urziceni would not be allowed to win the Romanian league title this year. I was fortunately very wrong. Urziceni, an awful town of 17,000 people, 66,227 stray dogs and no supermarket a short drive north east of Bucharest, can now boast to be the home of [...]

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Elena is Traian Basescu’s revenge

by Craig Turp June 11, 2009 Romanian Politics

  Minutes after two exit polls had shown Elena Basescu (Eba) to have comfortably reached the three per cent mark she needed to win a seat in the European parliament in Sunday’s European elections, this independent girl – who had ostentatiously left the PD-L some months before (after those in the PD-L who still have [...]

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Why Wikipedia is crap

by Craig Turp June 10, 2009 Bucharest

 My son (who will be seven next month) is currently on a one-boy mission to edit, amend, improve and generally overhaul every English-language entry on Wikipedia for the Bucharest Metro. Why? Because he is a train spotter in the making and because, well, he can. Online, the worth of the knowledge of a small boy [...]

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Alive & Well: Homo Shadius Denarius Changerus

by Craig Turp June 9, 2009 Travel

 A holiday weekend in Romania (Whitsun), so in a pentecostal spirit Bucharest Life gathered together his followers (wife and two kids) and set off for the seaside. Not the Romanian version though. No. Having been priced out of the local market (like many ordinary families) we headed off next door, to Bulgaria, where hotels are [...]

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