The Romanian History Museum (MNIR) recently launched a major new website, www.comunismulinromania.ro, the front-end of a project designed to look at the communist period in Romania in a ’serious, objective way.’
Mainly a photo archive, we liked the communist-era adverts the best. It’s good to know that if Bucharest In Your Pocket had been around then, [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Ci-Co; Romania during communism
Report what Mazare does with Constanta, not what he wears
Scandal!
The mayor of Constanta, Radu Mazare – who is not, we should point out, our favourite Romanian politician by any means, and we would usually be the last people to jump to his defence – has been in the news the past couple of days following his somewhat controversial appearance on a catwalk at [...]
Catch this villain!
From the website of a Bucharest hostel:
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!!!!
REMEMBER: 1 EURO=~4.3 LEI/RON/NEW LEI (THEY ARE ALL THE SAME THING)
There is a guy who scams travelers in Bucharest, please watch out for him and help us catch him!!! He is blond, tall, well dressed and speaks very good English, he says his name is Albert and he [...]
That Bucharest cinema experience
Number one son was seven yesterday, so as part of his birthday celebrations we took him to the cinema to see Ice Age 3, in 3D. Not the greatest film ever made (not even the greatest Ice Age film ever made) but as the target audience is seven year olds, not thirtysomethings, who are we [...]
Map of Bucharest, 1979
We cleared out the attic and dusted off a few old books at the weekend, including an absolute gem: a tourist guide to the capital written by Dan Berindei and Sebastian Bonifaciu, published in Romanian in 1979.
Thankfully lacking the usual homage to Romania’s president at the time which blight so many works of the [...]