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 [...]
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Brasov In Your Pocket 3
It’s not just Bucharest In Your Pocket that we publish. Oh no. Since the summer of this year we have been banging our drum up in Brasov, too. The latest issue of Brasov In Your Pocket mini-guide went to the printer today.
We are rather pleased with the cover we chose…
Anyway, it will be out and [...]
Paradisul Acvatic, Brasov
Brasov has a water park, Paradisul Acvatic.
It’s not the biggest water park in the world, but compared to any other we’ve visited in Romania, it’s easily the best. Bucharest has its Water Park, but being outdoors (and directly under the flightpath of Otopeni Airport) it has a very limited shelf life (June-September). Paradisul Acvatic is [...]
Poiana Brasov: Nice place, shame about the prices and the (lack of) pistes
We used to have a genuine soft-spot for Poiana Brasov, a legacy of a winter a decade or so ago when we would ski there every weekend. As soon as we’d finished work on a Friday we would head off for Brasov, eat at Taverna (then just about the only decent restaurant in the city); [...]
While its trains continue to go backwards, Romanian railways (CFR) takes a giant leap forwards
A while ago we reported how we had thought we must be stupid, for we could not find the ‘buy tickets online now’ button on the website of Romanian railways, CFR. As it turned out, there wasn’t one.
Now, however, news reaches us that you can indeed buy Romanian train tickets online.
Oh yes. Right here, in [...]