(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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Litter’
Bucharest in new cart/horse mix-up
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 us [...]
Start handing out ASBOs
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 [...]
Bucharest 1964: A Thousand Thanks to Alex Galmeanu
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 [...]
We’ve Got a Stalker
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 [...]