Mar 11th, 2010
by Craig Turp.
Locals will know about these (but then again we more or less count as locals these days and we never knew they existed), foreigners may not: Romanian webcams, hundreds of them.
Hosted by the website of newspaper Jurnalul National, you will find not just Bucharest webcams, but also live live streams from around the country, including [...]
Mar 5th, 2010
by Craig Turp.
Ahead of the next issue of Brasov In Your Pocket, due out April 1 (ish), we have been busy doing our usual thorough research of the city, checking that cafes who claim to have free wifi really do have free wifi, and so on.
We have also been busy plotting everything worth seeing and doing in [...]
Mar 4th, 2010
by Craig Turp.
In the current issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket we publish a feature on Bucharest’s earthquake of 1977, which took place 33 years ago today.
Below is a short film (in Romanian) about the quake: the first 30 seconds or so is a recording of the earthquake made by Radio Romania, which was recording a [...]
Mar 2nd, 2010
by Craig Turp.
From the government that brought you a compulsory profit tax on losses, and a tax on fast food comes another wonderful initiative designed to see thousands more Romanian companies close: all Romanian companies (no matter their size) must hire not one, but two full time accountants.
Yes, you read that correctly.
More than 40 MPs, including big [...]
Mar 1st, 2010
by Craig Turp.
Ladies: if you are wondering why your foreign boss/boyfriend handed you over a Martisor today, it’s because we gave him a heads up in the current issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket:
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