August 2009

Bucharest Metro makes major improvement to service; tells nobody

by Craig Turp August 18, 2009 Bucharest

 As regular readers will know, we have a train-spotter-in-the-making in the family, whose ambition until last Friday was to travel to every station on the Bucharest metro system. On Friday evening he ticked off the last station (Pantelimon), and now has a full set. So well done him. Anyway, it was while heading out to [...]

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Celebrating the inventiveness of Romanians

by Craig Turp August 14, 2009 Bucharest

 

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Where’s the Tourist Information Office?

by Craig Turp August 13, 2009 Bucharest

 We got a phone call yesterday lunchtime from an angry American (we think) who wanted to know what we had against the Tourist Information Office in Bucharest. He was in his room at the Hilton, had a copy of Bucharest In Your Pocket, and had been through all 84 pages yet was unable to find [...]

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Medieval scaffolding techniques being preserved in Bucharest

by Craig Turp August 12, 2009 Bucharest

 We guess that if they managed to build the pyramids, St. Peter’s and Notre Dame without the assistance of modern scaffolding, then a poxy little block going up outside our office in Bucharest can likewise make do without: Perhaps the developer is a keen historian eager to preserve medieval know-how?

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Bucharest now has two great parks, neither of which is Herastrau

by Craig Turp August 10, 2009 Bucharest

 If you follow us on Twitter, or ever browse an issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket, then you would have noticed that we have more than a passing interest in the state of Bucharest’s parks. Not merely because we want to bring people the most up-to-date info, but also because, as parents, a large slice [...]

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Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport: Free of Duty Free

by Craig Turp August 10, 2009 Bucharest

 Got this email this morning… I reproduce it as sent. Hi Craig, I don’t have your direct e-mail address, so I’m writing via the general office one. Future editions of Bucharest IYP should warn unwary travellers departing from Otopeni/Henri Coanda Airport that there is no Duty Free Shopping at the airport. After passing immigration & [...]

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Berlin Diary

by Craig Turp August 6, 2009 Travel

 Berlin (where we spent some of our holiday) is a wonderful city, but the brilliance of its public transport is, alas, something of a myth. While the U-Bahn is excellent, the S-Bahn has been riddled with problems of late and was in large part out of order for much of our stay. As for the [...]

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