Bucharest

Political Animals

by Craig Turp December 6, 2011 Bucharest

 So it’s official. The ruling Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) has made Bucharest‘s stray dogs a political issue. Indeed, the mutts could well become one of the main issues of next year’s local elections. As we wrote about a week or so ago, the PDL has for a while been collecting signatures in order to force [...]

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Burying Bucharest’s Cables

by Craig Turp October 18, 2011 Bucharest

 We’ve been going on about Bucharest’s unsightly and downright dangerous overhead cables ever since we began writing about the city here at Bucharest Life. In brief (we do not want to risk repeating ourselves too much) we think that the cables make the city look Third World, and that burying them would do wonders for [...]

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Around Bucharest on a tram

by Craig Turp October 14, 2011 Bucharest

 That’s right, it’s Tram Week at Bucharest Life. If you want to see the real Bucharest, sod the tourist bus and get yourself on the No. 1 tram. (Our regular reader, Mrs Trellis of North Wales, may well remember that we have done something similarly daft in the past: our trip on the No. 32 [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket 73

by Craig Turp October 4, 2011 Bucharest

 Safely at the printer (and on the streets by the end of this week), another issue of the day job Bucharest In Your Pocket 73 is done and dusted. You can download a PDF version right here, or view it on Issuu.com here. The cover, which we kind of like, is this super effort, taken [...]

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Introductions to Brasov and Bucharest

by Craig Turp September 13, 2011 Bucharest

 As we mentioned last week, a new issue of Brasov In Your Pocket is in the works. In fact, it is done and dusted and probably rolling off a printing press as we type. The cover, should anyone be interested, is this autumnal scene of the canal (yes, it is a canal) which runs alongside [...]

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Visiting Bucharest’s abandoned forts

by Craig Turp September 12, 2011 Bucharest

 A few weeks ago (on the now infamous What should be labelled as ‘Essential Bucharest?‘ post) a number of people suggested that a tour of the various 19th century forts which surround the Romanian capital would make a half-decent day out. Well, ask and you shall receive, it appears. Historo – also known as Valentin [...]

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Parts of Bucharest we’ve never been to No. 1: Bucurestii Noi

by Craig Turp September 6, 2011 Bucharest

 While for most people Krakow’s biggest attractions are its picture postcard Rynek, hippy Kazimierz or regal Wawel, for us the best bit of Krakow is Nowa Huta, a northern suburb built in the 1950s in a deliberate attempt to make liberal, bourgeois Krakow a more proletarian kind of place. The day job In Your Pocket [...]

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