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Nesimtit de bun simt

by Craig Turp February 25, 2010 Bucharest

 (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 [...]

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Bucharest in new cart/horse mix-up

by Craig Turp March 26, 2009 Romania

  The cart, yesterday. Horse not pictured. Bucharest’s authorities have once again put the cart before the horse with the appearance around the city of recycling bins, such as those pictured above, which appeared at the end of our street last week. Now, the debate about recycling per se is one which rages elsewhere. What concerns [...]

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Start handing out ASBOs

by Craig Turp March 24, 2009 Bucharest

 The thinking man’s radio station, Guerilla, this week launched an ‘anti-mitocanie‘ campaign. For those of you who gave up on Romanian a long time ago, mitocanie can be translated as ‘anti-social.’ Basically, Guerilla has launched a campaign against anti social behaviour. You may remember that the newly elected Labour government in the UK tried something [...]

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Bucharest 1964: A Thousand Thanks to Alex Galmeanu

by Craig Turp February 21, 2009 Bucharest

 Don’t know who Alex Galmeanu is, but he has a blog, and a site, which deserve your urgent attention. If I ever meet him I will shake his hand and buy him a drink: these photos of Bucharest in 1964 are (probably quite literally) priceless. I know not where he got them from (and unless [...]

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We’ve Got a Stalker

by Craig Turp December 19, 2008 Media

 A while ago, we used to write an occasional column in Ziarul Financiar. Nothing spectacular, just the usual man in the pub rantings of a chippy expat. The archive, should anyone be remotely interested, is here. Anyway, someone who is interested is someone called Maria-Cristina Serban, who keeps sending us emails with little comments, the [...]

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Bucharest Solutions

by Craig Turp October 31, 2008 Bucharest

 A few ideas kicked around by a less than select group of brains over dinner recently. As it’s nearly election time, here are our policies for a happier Bucharest, a happier Romania… Drivers must obey the law Let’s get the most revolutionary aspect of our manifesto off the drawing board early on: We propose that [...]

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Graffitti in the Name of Marketing is Still Vandalism

by Craig Turp September 18, 2008 Media

 Because the airwaves of Bucharest are not already full to bursting with little radio stations barely anyone listens to, we’re about to get another: Radio Zu. Yes, Zu. (I know, the name sounds like some kind of 2.0 rebranding of well, a zoo. You couldn’t make it up). Romania’s smug git of the moment, Mihai [...]

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