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Frozen Bucharest

by Craig Turp February 11, 2012 Bucharest

 It has been said many times that Bucharest is at its best when covered in a thick blanket of snow. We have written as much ourselves in many a Foreword to winter editions of Bucharest In Your Pocket, and with this year proving to be the fiercest winter in living memory, we are certainly getting [...]

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Arc de Triumf to get a refit

by Craig Turp February 8, 2012 Bucharest

 Bucharest’s Arc de Triumf is to benefit from a €7 million makeover. The city’s Mayor Sorin Oprescu signed a contract today that will see work start in the Spring. He hopes the refurbishment will be finished in time for December 1st, Romania’s National Day, when lots of soldier boys pass underneath and Romania shows off [...]

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The Romanian National Technical Museum: Home of the Jetpack

by Craig Turp October 25, 2011 Bucharest

 If, like us, you have always wanted to see a real life Auto-Gamma Scintillation Spectometre, then the Dimitrie Leonida Romanian National Technical Museum in Parcul Carol is the place for you. The National Technical Museum is situated in the last remaining pavilion built for the Great Romanian Exposition of 1906, organised at the behest of [...]

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Around Bucharest on a tram

by Craig Turp October 14, 2011 Bucharest

 That’s right, it’s Tram Week at Bucharest Life. If you want to see the real Bucharest, sod the tourist bus and get yourself on the No. 1 tram. (Our regular reader, Mrs Trellis of North Wales, may well remember that we have done something similarly daft in the past: our trip on the No. 32 [...]

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Looking down on Bucharest

by Craig Turp October 7, 2011 Bucharest

 (Insert your own joke about the fact that we’ve always looked down on Bucharest). Partly to keep a promise to Son of Bucharest Life, and partly because we hadn’t been up there ourselves for a while, we this week took a trip to the balcony at the top of the Bucharest InterContinental, at 77 metres [...]

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Finally! Bucharest’s Grigore Antipa Museum reopens. It was worth the wait

by Craig Turp September 15, 2011 Bucharest

 After a refit lasting over three years and costing €14 million, Bucharest’s Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural History finally reopened today. (Actually, it opened for the press today: the public can visit as of Saturday, from when the museum will be open 10:00-20:00, Tue-Sun. It will be closed Mondays). A year late (see this post [...]

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Visiting Bucharest’s abandoned forts

by Craig Turp September 12, 2011 Bucharest

 A few weeks ago (on the now infamous What should be labelled as ‘Essential Bucharest?‘ post) a number of people suggested that a tour of the various 19th century forts which surround the Romanian capital would make a half-decent day out. Well, ask and you shall receive, it appears. Historo – also known as Valentin [...]

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