Capital living in Bucharest, Romania
Is out and about on the city’s streets. Under a pile of snow, probably.
But panic not! You can avoid the snow and read it from the comfort of your desktop by downloading a PDF copy right here. (We fixed the mistake on the cover – can you spot it? – before it went to print, [...]
A week or so late, here is Bucharest Life’s Review of the Year that was 2009.
January
A new government, led by Traian Basescu and Little Emil Boc, installed following parliamentary elections at the end of 2008, introduces, amongst other moves of sheer political genius, a compulsory profit tax for small companies (even those that lose money) [...]
There is now a website that allows you enter just about any city name and get a free, one-page guide to that city appear on your screen in an instant. Try it here.
Not altogether unimpressive, until of course you look through the guide and realise that it is (a) not very good and (b) ripping [...]
But it nearly was. Indeed we wish it was. Here’s the story…
We are featuring the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Bucharest metro in the latest issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket (out tomorrow), and as such wanted a cover that would honour this momentous occasion. Step in regular poster on this blog, Davin [...]
According the now legendarily bad City Slickers: Bucharest published by the Independent on Sunday (IoS) at the weekend, Romania’s prime minister is Calin Popescu Tariceanu, a man who of course has not been PM since December and who is no longer even the leader of his own party.
According to the IoS, Bucharest Arc de Triumf dates [...]