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 [...]
Feb 24th, 2010
by Craig Turp.
Dear Bucharest Life
I read the other day that the Minister of Tourism, Elena Udrea, is to invest €850,000 of her ministry’s money on new road signs to help tourists find Romania’s major tourist hotspots.
As I am sure that the Romanian seaside will be one of those tourist hotspots to benefit from the improvement in [...]
Feb 17th, 2010
by Craig Turp.
She certainly is back with a real bang this week, our lovely Tourism and Regional Development Minister, the incomparable Elena Udrea.
Following on from her ‘homes for the poor for the rich‘ programme, launched yesterday, we discover today that she is moving into the world of jazz and blues. Nice.
From this investigative blogger – whose story [...]
Feb 15th, 2010
by Craig Turp.
As we discovered on Saturday morning, the difference between getting a taxi at Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport now and getting one before the rules changed on February 1st is that there is no difference. At least not in any real sense. The information we publish about arriving at Bucharest’s airports in Bucharest In Your Pocket and [...]