About Bucharest Life

Bucharest Life is written by people who do not think that the Romanian capital is the greatest city on earth. Bucharest has its charms, but it remains a city in which more than 100,000 people (or almost five per cent of the population) still go without basic sanitation. The local press – which, with an eye on its paymasters and advertisers, always portrays a vision of Bucharest that its inhabitants find hard to recognise day-to-day – generally ignores this.

While the city guide Bucharest In Your Pocket, which we have been privileged to publish for the past ten years, does a great job of explaining this bizarre place 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 travel in Romania in general, only to have to cut it for a lack of space. Visitor information has to come first.

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.

Bucharest Life is primarily the work of Bucharest resident Craig Turp, the Editor-in-chief of In Your Pocket City Guides, and the publisher and editor of Bucharest In Your Pocket.

You can contact us at this email address.

FAQ

Why are you still here?

Because we are unemployable anywhere else.

Is there anything you actually like about Bucharest?

Yes, plenty. Read these pages regularly and you will see exactly what.

Are you American?

No, English.