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Astrology, Witchcraft, Pseudoscience & Classic Comedy

Last night, Romanian television was awash with astrologers, pyschics, energicians, homeopaths and other such quacks. All of whom were given time to explain – as if their theories had any scientific validity – the power allegedly being influenced by Traian Basescu’s Purple Flame Brigade. (Apparently, Basescu takes a chap called Aliodor Manolea – a ‘parapsychologist’ [...]

High Fashion & Van Gogh

We are hardly what you would call fashionistas here at Bucharest Life. To be perfectly honest, our idea of fashion is Man at C&A, while high fashion would be the Angelo Littrio Collection at C&A.
So it was with a mix of surprise and dread that we found ourselves in a front-row seat at the [...]

Berlin Diary

Berlin (where we spent some of our holiday) is a wonderful city, but the brilliance of its public transport is, alas, something of a myth. While the U-Bahn is excellent, the S-Bahn has been riddled with problems of late and was in large part out of order for much of our stay. As for the [...]