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Bucharest In Your Pocket 75

by Craig Turp February 3, 2012 Bucharest

 Bucharest In Your Pocket issue 75 is done and dusted and at the printer. Here is the cover: Features this issue include a look back at the Bucharest earthquake of 1977, books about Romania in English (including some reviews first published here, as well as a cracking new sketch of Paul D. Quinlan’s Carol: The [...]

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What does a responsible city guide do about these protests?

by Craig Turp January 21, 2012 Bucharest

  Here’s a problem we have never faced before: What does a responsible city guide do about these protests (a couple of which have ended violently) currently taking place every evening in Bucharest? We have a deadline approaching ahead of the publication of the February – March issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket, and are [...]

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Bucharest on Bucharest

by Craig Turp January 20, 2012 Bucharest

 Romania’s National School of Administration and Political Science (SNSPA) last year carried out an in-depth study to find out what the people of Bucharest thought about the place in which they live. While the study was published in May last year, its existence – and its findings – have only just become made known to [...]

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Much ado about nothing

by Craig Turp January 15, 2012 Bucharest

 There was a mini-riot in Bucharest last night. A lot of fuss over nothing. You can read a BBC news report of the events here, and there is video from Reuters here. Anyway, two quick points. 1. If you are not happy with a government, you can choose not to re-elect it at the next [...]

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Don’t go the cinema in Bucharest on a Wednesday afternoon. Just don’t

by Craig Turp January 11, 2012 Bucharest

 Who knew? It turns out that every Wednesday there’s an offer at Bucharest’s cinemas: two tickets for the price of one for Orange customers. We only found out when we turned up earlier today at the Hollywood Multiplex having promised the kids they could see Happy Feet 2. Too late. The place was full of [...]

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Bucharest Life 2012: It’s all about politics

by Craig Turp January 1, 2012 Bucharest

 One thing will dominate Bucharest Life this coming year, and it’s not Elena Udrea in latex. No, having taken a year’s holiday, Romanian politics is back in a big way, with two sets of elections scheduled for 2012, the first since the controversial presidential election of 2008. As things stand today, the loose and unholy [...]

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The year in Bucharest Life

by Craig Turp December 23, 2011 Bucharest

 We started the year in belligerent mood, dismissing as nonsense the idea that Minister of Tourism Elena Udrea should be held personally responsible for Romania failing to appear on a couple of meaningless travel lists. We followed that up with a similar post calling bullshit on the idea that foreign reporters should be compelled to [...]

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