Bucharest Taxis

500 Reasons to Read In Your Pocket (or Bucharest Life)

by Craig Turp October 19, 2011 Bucharest

 A post that could be subtitled ‘Why on earth do we bother?’ Chances are that if you ask any of the founders of In Your Pocket why, nearly two decades ago, they decided to start publishing a guide to Vilnius, a city which had at the time no telephone directory, one of their answers would [...]

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From Bucharest to Sofia

by Craig Turp July 26, 2011 Bucharest

 We always used to say that if you arrived in Bucharest by bus then something, somewhere, had gone very, very wrong. This, after all, is a city with no real, central bus station, in a country where many inter-city buses are little more than glorified minibuses. In some parts of the In Your Pocket empire [...]

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Wherever you’re from, paying 3.50 lei/km for a taxi in Romania is paying too much

by Craig Turp March 25, 2011 Bucharest

 Met some foreigners last night who had paid over 150 lei to get from Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport into the city centre. Silly boys. The interesting thing was however, that they did not realise they had paid too much until we pointed out to them what they should have paid (no more than 50 lei). After [...]

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Taxi revolution at Otopeni?

by Craig Turp November 10, 2010 Bucharest

 According to reports in the local press, as of November 15th, all remaining restrictions preventing standard Bucharest taxis picking up passengers at Otopeni/Henri Coanda Airport will be lifted. The only caveat is that taxis will have to pay a six lei entrance fee. This will of course be passed on to clients, but even so [...]

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Where’s that then?

by Craig Turp June 14, 2010 Bucharest

 Bucharest’s taxi drivers have a poor reputation. They are generally thought of as rip-off merchants with a love of manele who don’t have the foggiest idea where it is they are going. In fact, though there are still nasty drivers out there ready to use all sorts of cunning to part the naïve, the foreign [...]

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Dodgy Bucharest taxis (pt. 297)

by Craig Turp April 24, 2010 Bucharest

 Bucharest’s more expensive taxi drivers are apparently coming up with all sorts of new and inventive ways to fool people into thinking that their cars are in fact ordinary, cheap Bucharest taxis. The trick of adopting a logo that looks – at quick glance – much like the logo of an ordinary company is old [...]

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Everyday scenes of Bucharest Life…

by Craig Turp March 18, 2010 Bucharest

 Took the kids into Lipscani yesterday for a St. Patrick’s Day Guinness (it’s good for them), and just happened to have – for once – the camera with us. A couple of things caught our eye. Firstly, the overhead power/internet/TV/telephone cable situation is clearly getting worse. We took this picture at Piata Universitatii: Ignore the [...]

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