A while ago we reported how we had thought we must be stupid, for we could not find the ‘buy tickets online now’ button on the website of Romanian railways, CFR. As it turned out, there wasn’t one. Now, however, news reaches us that you can indeed buy Romanian train tickets online. Oh yes. Right [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
The best in new Romanian art
Metro carriage with graffiti, by the seven-year old artist known simply as Maxi, is just one of the many exciting works not featured in a new book showcasing the very best in Romanian snake oil. Called 100 Ways to Milk a Cow the book is a hilarious spoof of the contemporary art world. Look out [...]
Bucharest’s Village Museum: Good, but much better when there’s a fair on.
On Saturday we went to Bucharest’s Village Museum, one of those few sights in the capital that we can safely label Essential without looking stupid. We’ve always liked it, though we have a few reservations (mainly the fact that it presents a somewhat false idyll: most Romanian villages are simply not like this). Anyway, this [...]
Hammer & Tickle
Bucharest Life is currently reading a wonderful little book we picked up at (where else) Anthony Frost last week, called Hammer & Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes, by BBC man Ben Lewis. It is rather good, and we recommend it. More than a joke book (yet much less than a full [...]
Badly Parked Cars: Why?
This one was submitted by a reader, Nicholas Wright, along with the accompanying text: This one begs the question: Why? You could have parked properly? But hey, this is Bucharest. There’s a photo on Wikipedia of Casa Scanteii in 1971 – one car out front – much better! But seriously, why are people driving here? [...]