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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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More words of wisdom from the Independent on Sunday

by Craig Turp April 21, 2009 Media

 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 [...]

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What a coincidence!

by Craig Turp April 19, 2009 Media

 There’s a short guide to Bucharest in the Independent on Sunday today. You can read it here. Much of the text will, we think, be reasonably familiar to regular visitors to the Bucharest pages of In Your Pocket or the print edition of Bucharest In Your Pocket. We say (about the Village Museum) You should [...]

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