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Sibiu In Your Pocket: Perfect for visitors to Sibiu who want to visit Sibiu

by Craig Turp December 17, 2011 Romania

 The first issue of Sibiu In Your Pocket is done and dusted. You will be able to find a paper copy at any of Sibiu’s main hotels and pensions, or its four tourist information offices from Wednesday (probably) onwards. Meantime, you can browse the Sibiu pages at the In Your Pocket website, which has the [...]

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Brasov In Your Pocket 11

by Craig Turp December 12, 2011 Romania

 We know you are longing to find out what the cover of the new Brasov In Your Pocket mini-guide looks like, so here it is: The actual guide can be picked up in all the usual places in Brasov (such as Tourist Information). Now that Brasov is in the bag, we are about to start [...]

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Another quick word on Romanian trains

by Craig Turp December 9, 2011 Bucharest

 There is no doubt that Romanian railways (CFR) online train ticket purchasing system works, and works well. We wrote some of this post on a train to Brasov, the ticket for which we bought online. But there are still problems. First of all, you can’t pick your seat. Being a but fussy, we like an [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket 74

by Craig Turp December 2, 2011 Bucharest

 Is done and dusted. It features lots of new places to eat and drink in the capital (assuming that they do not burn down between now and the time you read the guide), as well as a feature on skiing in Romania. This year has finally seen a fair bit of investment in the skiing [...]

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Romanian trains in ‘going slightly faster’ shock

by Craig Turp November 30, 2011 Romania

 Researching the train schedule we still include in every issue of Bucharest (and Brasov) In Your Pocket, we couldn’t help but notice that the new Mersul Trenurilor (valid from December 12th) has a few interesting developments, including trains which actually appear to go faster than they used to. The 166 kilometres from Bucharest – Brasov [...]

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Wild Carpathia: Saving Romania from the modern world one helicopter at a time

by Craig Turp November 4, 2011 Romania

 Only half in jest, Romanian president Traian Basescu earlier this year told a group of investors that while Romania was a wonderful country offering much to see, the poor state of its transport infrastructure meant that the best way to see the country was ‘by helicopter‘. We know not if the Middle Eastern investors he [...]

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What’s wrong with ‘Ceausescu Tourism’?

by Craig Turp October 31, 2011 Media

 Why do we do it? Why do we watch questionable talk shows on questionable television channels (in this case Antena 3) knowing how loaded the content is, how subjective the guests are and – to all intents and purposes – knowing exactly what will be said. Last night the subject was a report that had [...]

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