Phone rings.
Bucharest Life answers.
Familia Turp?
Da.
De la P*****s Bank sunt. In legatura cu vecinul vostru de la 89.
The lovely lady from P*****s Bank then told me that she wanted some help trying to contact one of our neighbours, let’s call him Ion Ionescu, from apartment 89, who they simply can’t get hold of.
Would we mind going [...]
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De la banca, in legatura cu vecinul vostru de la 89
Nesimtit de bun simt
(OR: Can you buy ashtrays in Bucharest?)
We live on the ground floor of a small Bucharest block. It has four floors in all, and while it’s not in the most salubrious or sought-after parts of the city, we’re happy here.
The neighbours are by and large fine. No noise (you can hear a pin drop [...]
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 print, [...]
Dogs. Again.
We read this yesterday with much enthusiasm: Bucharest City Council has pledged to change the law so that all stray dogs it captures and sterilizes will no longer be returned to the city’s streets.
We take our hats off to the prefect of Bucharest, Mihai Cristian Atanasoaei, who said he supports “immediate, firm action [on the [...]
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 lose money) [...]