OTV, don’t you just love it? Populist and popular (though its audience is shrinking) OTV is the most honest television station in Romania. Honest because it fully admits that it serves up complete rubbish and never tries to hide the fact. Compare with Pro TV or Antena 1, whose programmes are just as pathetic and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Brasov’
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. [...]
Name that tower
The cover of the latest Brasov In Your Pocket Mini-Guide, Summer 2010. Should you be at all bothered/interested you can download a PDF of the whole thing for free, here.
Brasov’s magnificent no-view terrace
We had not been up to the top of the Tampa Mountain in Brasov by cable car for well over a decade, long before we had any kids to keep entertained. Now that holidays and weekend breaks involve two young children, we are always looking for things to do that will keep them quiet and [...]
Parc Aventura, Brasov
It’s not all that often that we get particularly excited about anything anymore. On Sunday, however, at Parc Aventura in Brasov, we certainly did, and not without reason: this place is currently about the best fun you can have in Romania (well, within reason, of course). An adventure park set over two and a half [...]