Bucharest In Your Pocket

Bucharest In Your Pocket 71

by Craig Turp June 3, 2011 Bucharest

Here is the rather splendid cover (even if we do say so ourselves)… This issue we have features on Bucharest’s Parks & Gardens, the Romanian version of Monopoly, Calea Victoriei and the usual 14-page bumper Old Town/Lipscani section. You can download a PDF version of the guide here. You can view it on Scribd in [...]

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We’ve been libeled

by Craig Turp April 21, 2011 Media

Oh yes, we’ve been well and truly libeled. In print as well, not just on some crappy blog. So what to do? We’ve so far been involved in two libel trials in Romania. Once when a Chinese restaurant sued us because they didn’t like something we’d written about them, and again when we accused a [...]

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Things they don’t tell you when you buy the ticket

by Craig Turp April 18, 2011 Bucharest

Let’s be honest, we have nobody but ourselves to blame. When you’re the Editor-in-chief of a publishing company based in Vilnius with guides in some fairly obscure places but choose to live in Bucharest, you have to expect a fair bit of travelling, often by circular means; Bucharest – Vilnius is never likely to become [...]

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Rediscover Bucharest: Calea Victoriei (Redux), Bucharest IYP 70 & High Steaks

by Craig Turp April 8, 2011 Bucharest

If you have yet to get your hands on a copy of the new Bucharest In Your Pocket (IYP), always remember that you can download a PDF version of that 100-page extravaganza for free, here at inyourpocket.com. If 100 pages is just way too much to deal with, then we’ve divided the more interesting [...]

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In which our intrepid correspondent eats at Divan, and leaves with cap well and truly doffed

by Craig Turp February 28, 2011 Bucharest

Divan, Strada Franceza. Here: — We have loved this place since it opened last year, primarily for the food (mainly Turkish/Lebanese), which is sensational (the spicy lamb and beef kebab is very good) and – as long as you don’t go for the whole lamb – well priced. But this Saturday it went up in [...]

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Some Bucharest In Your Pocket bits and pieces you might have missed…

by Craig Turp February 23, 2011 Bucharest

Although we are certain that most of you are regular readers and fans of the fruits of our day job, Bucharest In Your Pocket, we thought we might highlight a couple of features that you might have missed… First off, there’s the Bucharest Earthquake of 1977 – the 34th anniversary of which (March 4th) approaches. [...]

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