Romania specialises in many things; hairdressers, stray dogs and good, cheap, reliable motor cars are just three things that immediately spring to mind.
Another niche Romania has made its own is in broadcasting; namely, The Television Sports Channel That Shows No Sport Of Any Kind niche.
Instead of sport, which of course costs money, these ’sports’ channels [...]
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Lateral Thinking
Decat O Revista; In defence of Bucharest
As a few of you may or may not know, two weekends ago a magazine called Decat O Revista was quietly launched to the world.
It’s not your standard magazine. Very much a one-off (hence the name) it will only appear again if a brave entrepeneur picks up the idea (to create a genuinely independent, readable [...]
The Sudden Death of Piata Vitan
We live in the Bucharest district of Vitan. Very much unloved, and by no means the most salubrious part of Romania’s capital it nevertheless serves as home, and we kind of like it.
Close to the city centre it is blessed with decent transport links, and, as it is close to the school our son attends, [...]
Traiane! Pass the dutchie…
As anyone who visits these pages regularly or follows us on Twitter will know, we are not big fans of Romanian President Traian Basescu.
We think his failed attempt to Putinize Romania has embedded a political climate in which real debate is substituted with petty personal squabbles. He runs the country by press conference, and his [...]
How to save the Romanian tourist industry: Don’t tell anyone it’s raining
Radu Moraru, a would-be shock-jock who hosts a nightly chat show on the Romanian TV channel B1, last night came up with perhaps the most brilliantly simple way to save the Romanian tourist industry: don’t tell the whole truth.
His guest was Elena Udrea, Romania’s Minister of Tourism, hence the tourism theme.
Moraru suggested that many people living [...]