Ahead of the next issue of Brasov In Your Pocket, due out April 1 (ish), we have been busy doing our usual thorough research of the city, checking that cafes who claim to have free wifi really do have free wifi, and so on.
We have also been busy plotting everything worth seeing and doing in Brasov on an online map.
This map, to be precise:
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@Craig:
I pointed Aro Palace from my first try
Nice Craig! Question: what is up with Carrefour Unirii in Bucharest? Shopping there is chaotic at best. It’s as if hundreds of peasants have just arrived on horse drawn cart. I have lived in Brooklyn, London and Paris and never have I seen so many people in one supermarket all jockeying for position. It would seem that central Bucharest needs another Carrefour location nearby. I had guests staying with me from central Europe and they were aghast at the situation. I know my complaining must start to sound crazy to any foreigners reading this blog, but Bucharest is unique. I am sorry to have say that. Shopping in Belgrade, shopping in Prague, shopping in Warsaw etc. etc. etc. is NOTHING like shopping in Bucharest. What the HELL is wrong with this country? I just know that pre 1940, Bucharest was not like this. Where has civilized society departed to?! Just as Ceausescu had no idea apparently what it was like for ordinary Romanians in the 1980s, I sense that Basecu, too, has no idea. I have the distinct feeling as I walk about the city that Bucharestians are trying to act how they *think* it is to be Western. A BMW, a Mercedes, nice clothes, etc. But it all comes off as sort of surreal for me. Bucharest is NOT the West. It never will be. People here today are inhabiting the ghost of a “Little Paris’. The people here right now do not “fit” with the background of beautiful old buildings. They and their parents were not even alive when the buildings were built. their grand parents were peasant children at best when such buildings were constructed, living in the hinterlands. It may seem that I level just continued criticism at Bucharest. There is is reason! The place is BIZARRE. It is simply NOT like this in other European capital cities East or West!
No, people here fit with the background of communist blocks with second hand BMW’s bought from the milk money lying in front of the buildings…
It’s good, yes, but our favourite is Deane’s.
I just love “For Sale Pub” in Brasov