She’s at it again. Yesterday, Romania’s incomparably lovely Minister of Tourism and Regional Development, Elena Udrea told assembled Romanian diplomats and ambassadors that the country ‘now had its first ever professionally produced tourism brand.’ (You know, the brand whose logo was bought off-the-shelf). ‘Romania has had promotional campaigns in the past,’ she said, ‘but these [...]
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Bucharest in ‘has trendy bars, clubs, cafes and restaurants’ shock! How homogeneous and uninteresting
Bucharest is a vibrant, modern city which – while it has its problems – is increasingly like any other European capital. The young (and the not so young) enjoy going out in its cafes, bars, pubs, restaurants, clubs, discos and live music venues, much as their counterparts do in almost every other city in the [...]
Bucharest Life favourite places: Carturesti/Gradina Verona/Gradina OAR
Bucharest In Your Pocket, like all In Your Pockets, isn’t meant to have favourite places. As objective observers – swayed neither by personal preference nor the filthy lucre of an advertiser – we say what we see and leave the conjecture to our readers. That’s one of the reasons we started Bucharest Life. For while [...]
‘Trebuie sa va informati’; RATB fail
We’re big fans of RATB (the company that operates Bucharest’s surface-level public transport) here at Bucharest Life. As our regular reader (a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales) will no doubt remember, we have sung their praises and even defended them a number of times. Today though, RATB failed us. Having waited a good 15 minutes [...]
Out of Town: Cabana Susai
It has not been a great couple of weeks for Romanian tourism. The country’s new tourism slogan and logo were unveiled in Shanghai last Thursday by Minister of Tourism Elena Udrea and the usual suspects to general derision, caused in the main by accusations that the logo was remarkably familiar to a number of others. [...]