Badly Parked Cars

by Craig Turp December 3, 2011 Bucharest

For a couple of years now we have been putting together a rogues’ gallery of idiots who park their cars in inappropriate places in and around Bucharest. You can see those we have collected so far over at Badly Parked Cars. A number of photos have been sent in by readers: thanks, and do keep [...]

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Badly Parked Vans

by Craig Turp April 18, 2011 Bucharest

These photos – taken on Strada Paris and supplied via a source who wishes to remain anonymous – are magnificent. As the photographer explains: ‘what makes them so ridiculous is that the driver was working in the garden at the front, but had put the rear end of his van in such a place that [...]

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Bucharest’s rich can drive cars, the poor can take the bus

by Craig Turp April 2, 2011 Bucharest

No, that’s not our opinion, instead it’s what we understood from reading this article (part of a series called Five Things Bucharest Should Be Ashamed Of) – written by a chap called Ciprian Ciucu – currently being published over at Contributors, a site dedicated to what can often be decent, well thought through opinion pieces. [...]

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Badly parked cars No. 4,376

by Craig Turp March 11, 2011 Bucharest

Photographed in Bucharest early this morning. We assume the car (it is the silver one which is parked) had been here – in the middle of the road – overnight.

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Romanian police in ‘doing their job’ shock

by Craig Turp June 23, 2010 Bucharest

Incredible but true. This weekend we saw at least two Romanian policemen doing some real policing, enforcing the laws of land. These shocking events took place outside the Bucuresti Mall, where, as anyone who has driven past will know, taxi drivers routinely make a habit of parking by the traffic lights right outside, forcing two-lane [...]

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