We are off now on our Christmas holidays, shooting tigers in the Himalayas. We will be back on January 4th, 2010. If you are staying in Bucharest for New Year’s Eve, here are our suggestions for things to do… First off, a warning: do not think that you will be able to simply turn up [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
Reenact the Romanian Revolution!
Reenact the Romanian Revolution! (Well, kind of). Tonight at 21:00, in front of the Inter Continental hotel, a large crowd is expected to gather to remember the Romanian Revolution of December 1989. A big screen placed in front of the National Theatre will show film of what took place here 20 years ago, while there [...]
Photo Opportunity
Dear Bucharest Life It looks as though Elena Udrea is about to be given her old job back as Minister of Tourism in the new government of Little Emil Boc (indeed, she may also get the Regional Development Ministry and billions in EU funds – kerching – thrown in, too). I was therefore wondering if [...]
Bucharest’s Ateneu Roman: Nice place, shame about the communist-era cloakroom
Ask somebody from Bucharest what their favourite building in the city is, and the chances are they will reply ‘Ateneul‘. The Ateneu in question is the Ateneu Roman (Romanian Atheneum), the city’s main concert hall and home to Romania’s best orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic. It’s easy to see why: the exterior is a gorgeous [...]
Romania’s Berlusconi
It was impossible to watch Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi being hit in the face by a model of Milan Cathedral at the weekend without thinking that it is surely only a matter of time before somebody throws something similarly sharp at Romania’s newly re-elected president, Traian Basescu. For the two men are remarkably similar. [...]