Bucharest is a vibrant, modern city which – while it has its problems – is increasingly like any other European capital. The young (and the not so young) enjoy going out in its cafes, bars, pubs, restaurants, clubs, discos and live music venues, much as their counterparts do in almost every other city in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bucharest Guide’
Bucharest In Your Pocket 66
Though there was a time last week when we thought we would never finish, the new issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket (BIYP; issue 66) is done and dusted and should be winging its way to our many distribution points very soon. If you can’t wait any longer, or simply can’t be bothered to head [...]
At last: Bucharest opens a Tourist Information Centre (closed at weekends)
Amazing. After waiting 12 years in vain for a Tourist Information Centre (TIC) to open in Bucharest you take a week’s holiday and whack, a big new TIC opens its doors in the perfect location: the pedestrian underpass underneath Piata Universitatii. As such, the first thing we did on our return was to head excitedly [...]
Bucharest In Your Pocket 63
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 [...]
Bucharest Life 2009
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 [...]