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Sunflower Seeds & Ice Rinks

by Craig Turp February 11, 2011 Romania

 We found this notice on the door of an ice rink last week: Besides the no smoking part, which needs no translation, the sign also forbids people from bringing in and consuming sunflower seeds. (For the uninitiated, sunflower seeds are a popular if disgusting snack in these parts. The disgusting part is that people spit [...]

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Brasov In Your Pocket No. 7

by Craig Turp December 15, 2010 Romania

  We’ve just sent our latest Brasov guide to the printer. You will be able to find copies in and around Brasov early next week: the best place to find a copy is at Tourist Information, in the Old Town Hall on Piata Sfatului. This issue, by popular demand, we have included Bran Castle and [...]

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Brasov: Capital of Romania

by Craig Turp August 15, 2010 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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Out of Town: Cabana Susai

by Craig Turp August 6, 2010 Romania

 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. [...]

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Name that tower

by Craig Turp June 17, 2010 Romania

 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.

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Brasov’s magnificent no-view terrace

by Craig Turp June 9, 2010 Romania

 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 [...]

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Parc Aventura, Brasov

by Craig Turp June 8, 2010 Romania

 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 [...]

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