February 2010

Joy Division in Bucharest

by Craig Turp February 15, 2010 Bucharest

 We rarely go out late these days. Beyond visiting venues for Bucharest In Your Pocket review purposes, we are far happier to spend our nights in bed with a good book (currently The Shadow of the Sun, by the greatest foreign correspondent in history, Ryszard Kapuściński, if you must know). Anyway, this Saturday we might [...]

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Bucharest Otopeni Airport Taxis (Part 2: Getting to town)

by Craig Turp February 15, 2010 Bucharest

 As we discovered on Saturday morning, the difference between getting a taxi at Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport now and getting one before the rules changed on February 1st is that there is no difference. At least not in any real sense. The information we publish about arriving at Bucharest’s airports in Bucharest In Your Pocket and [...]

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Bucharest Otopeni Airport Taxis (Part 1: To the airport)

by Craig Turp February 12, 2010 Bucharest

 Our first trip since the new rules and regulations regarding taxis to and from Otopeni Airport were introduced on February 1st, allegedly for our convenience. Since that date, regular Bucharest taxis have been forbidden from entering Otopeni’s car parks, where they used to wait for clients who had ordered them (clients eager to avoid the [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket 63

by Craig Turp February 9, 2010 Bucharest

 Is out and about on the city’s streets. Under a pile of snow, probably. But panic not! You can avoid the snow and read it from the comfort of your desktop by downloading a PDF copy right here. (We fixed the mistake on the cover – can you spot it? – before it went to [...]

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Lateral Thinking

by Craig Turp February 8, 2010 Bucharest

 Romania specialises in many things; hairdressers, stray dogs and good, cheap, reliable motor cars are just three things that immediately spring to mind. Another niche Romania has made its own is in broadcasting; namely, The Television Sports Channel That Shows No Sport Of Any Kind niche. Instead of sport, which of course costs money, these [...]

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Snow. Bucharest. Get over it.

by Craig Turp February 8, 2010 Bucharest

 It’s becoming a bit boring. Yes, Bucharest is covered in snow again, and no, nobody is doing anything about it. It will be days before we even see the car again, let alone drive it. Yet it was always thus, and will remain so for years to come. This is a city in which it [...]

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Dogs. Again.

by Craig Turp February 3, 2010 Bucharest

 We read this yesterday with much enthusiasm: Bucharest City Council has pledged to change the law so that all stray dogs it captures and sterilizes will no longer be returned to the city’s streets. We take our hats off to the prefect of Bucharest, Mihai Cristian Atanasoaei, who said he supports “immediate, firm action [on [...]

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