Rediscover Bucharest

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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Parts of Bucharest we’ve never been to No. 1: Bucurestii Noi

by Craig Turp September 6, 2011 Bucharest

 While for most people Krakow’s biggest attractions are its picture postcard Rynek, hippy Kazimierz or regal Wawel, for us the best bit of Krakow is Nowa Huta, a northern suburb built in the 1950s in a deliberate attempt to make liberal, bourgeois Krakow a more proletarian kind of place. The day job In Your Pocket [...]

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Around Bucharest: Pasarea Monastery

by Craig Turp August 30, 2011 Bucharest

 As suggested by more than a couple of people on these pages over the past few weeks, we have decided to take a look at some of the monasteries which surround Bucharest. We began on Sunday with Pasarea Monastery, just east of Bucharest on the old road to Constanta: – It’s a quiet, gorgeous place, [...]

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Home in Bucharest (No. 4): Bulevardul Unirii

by Craig Turp August 22, 2011 Bucharest

 A quick reminder: This mini-series of posts is not intended to be a definitive list of Bucharest‘s districts, complete with lengthy descriptions. Instead, it is a rather self-indulgent look at the little bits of Bucharest in which we have lived, and how they have changed over the years. We have decided to do this for [...]

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