About Bucharest Life

by Craig Turp on February 11, 2009

First and foremost, Bucharest Life is more or less what it says on the tin: it is about life in Bucharest. Not expat life – we long ago stopped calling ourselves expats - but life; Life as lived by a long-term Bucharest resident and his family.

Primarily the work of one person – Craig Turp, Editor-in-chief of In Your Pocket – we welcome contributions from anyone willing to discuss any aspect of life in Bucharest (or Romania) and prepared to have those views deconstructed and often attacked by our discerning readership.

While the city guide Bucharest In Your Pocket – which we have been privileged to publish for the past twelve years – does a great job of explaining Bucharest to visitors, and remains unquestionably valuable to all foreign residents (and a few locals, we might add), it is a visitor’s guide first and foremost.

Many a time we have wanted to publish an article or feature in Bucharest In Your Pocket on some aspect of life in the city, or about life in Romania in general only to have to cut it for a lack of space. Visitor information has to come first.

Neither do we have any space in the guide for our thoughts on the state of Romanian politics, or the Romanian tourist industry. And on those (and many other) subjects we usually have plenty to say.

Hence Bucharest Life. See it as an extended version of Bucharest In Your Pocket. A kind of Have I Got More Bucharest In Your Pocket For You, with added politics.

You can contact us at this email address, on Twitter and on Facebook.

If you do not have time to search through the entire archive, here are few quick links to our opinions on…

Baneasa Airport
Bucharest in general
Bucharest’s Old Town
Bucharest’s preparedness for foreign visitors
Bucharest’s schools
The Danube Delta
Hala Matache
How to sell Bucharest
How to sell Romania
Poiana Brasov
Rosia Montana
Stray Dogs