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Posts Tagged ‘Bucharest’
Brasov: Capital of Romania
OTV, don’t you just love it? Populist and popular (though its audience is shrinking) OTV is the most honest television station in Romania. Honest because it fully admits that it serves up complete rubbish and never tries to hide the fact. Compare with Pro TV or Antena 1, whose programmes are just as pathetic and [...]
Bucharest In Your Pocket 66
Though there was a time last week when we thought we would never finish, the new issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket (BIYP; issue 66) is done and dusted and should be winging its way to our many distribution points very soon. If you can’t wait any longer, or simply can’t be bothered to head [...]
At last: Bucharest opens a Tourist Information Centre (closed at weekends)
Amazing. After waiting 12 years in vain for a Tourist Information Centre (TIC) to open in Bucharest you take a week’s holiday and whack, a big new TIC opens its doors in the perfect location: the pedestrian underpass underneath Piata Universitatii. As such, the first thing we did on our return was to head excitedly [...]
Elena’s capital ambitions are just the beginning
Our favourite Romanian politician, the incomparable Elena Udrea (Minister of Tourism and Regional Development), has often been accused – not least by some who write and comment on these pages – of not being up to the job. This week, however, Udrea knocked such accusations for six with a devastating display of political acumen, nous [...]