Craig Turp

How stupid can you be?

by Craig Turp May 7, 2012 Bucharest

 We have yet to find out who the people behind this dog turd of a website are, (the domain is registered to a company called Wild West Domains Llc) but we can tell you this: they are stupid. Very stupid. (We think that the hotel booking engine htl.ro might have something to do with it, [...]

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Bucharest’s Stray Dogs: Mapped

by Craig Turp May 4, 2012 Bucharest

 Excellent idea. The PDL, which despite having handicapped itself by nominating Silviu Prigoana as its candidate for mayor of Bucharest, has launched this website, called ‘Oprescu’s Bucharest,’ which aims to map all of the city’s dangerous packs of stray dogs. It also offers practical advice (in Romanian) on how to avoid being bitten, as well [...]

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Bucharest Stray Dogs Latest: Phanariots, not Ceausescu, to blame

by Craig Turp May 3, 2012 Bucharest

 Bucharest’s mayor, Sorin Oprescu, today confirmed what we at Bucharest Life have long been saying: that Nicolae Ceausescu is not to blame for Bucharest’s stray dog problem. No, according to Oprescu (who faces an election in a month’s time), it is the Phanariots we should blame. (In brief, the Phanariots were Turkish-appointed Greeks who ruled [...]

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In Your Pocket 20

by Craig Turp May 3, 2012 Bucharest

 It was 20 years ago this week that the first In Your Pocket guide hit the streets of Vilnius, in Lithuania. Issue N°1 of Vilnius In Your Pocket rolled off the presses at a time when the Soviet Union was considerably more than just a memory and the height of sophistication was owning anything that [...]

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Milk, in plastic bags

by Craig Turp May 2, 2012 Bucharest

Milk, in plastic bags

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The Sky Tower takes shape

by Craig Turp May 1, 2012 Bucharest

The Sky Tower takes shape

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Bucharest In Your Pocket Mini-Guide 25

by Craig Turp May 1, 2012 Bucharest

 This year, we are celebrating the Workers’ Holiday by, ahem, working. On the next Bucharest In Your Pocket Mini-Guide, as it happens. Here is the cover: Up the workers!

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