Bucharest Guide

Bucharest in ‘has trendy bars, clubs, cafes and restaurants’ shock! How homogeneous and uninteresting

by Craig Turp September 1, 2010 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket 66

by Craig Turp August 4, 2010 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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At last: Bucharest opens a Tourist Information Centre (closed at weekends)

by Craig Turp July 25, 2010 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket 63

by Craig Turp February 9, 2010 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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Bucharest Life 2009

by Craig Turp January 4, 2010 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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Free, because we paid for the content

by Craig Turp October 12, 2009 Bucharest

 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) [...]

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Not the cover of the latest issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket

by Craig Turp October 1, 2009 Bucharest

 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, [...]

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