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Travelling in Romania? Take to the skies

by Craig Turp April 30, 2011 Romania

 There are famously almost no motorways in Romania (and there are not likely to be for some time), and the country’s trains are notoriously slow (and surprisingly expensive). Getting from A to B in this country therefore takes far longer and costs far more than it should. So bad is Romania’s transport infrastructure that – [...]

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Number crunching with Romanian railways

by Craig Turp June 29, 2009 Romania

 The Bucharest Life kids are off to the countryside this week for their annual peasant experience. We went to get their train tickets this morning, one each for them and one for Bucharest Life’s mother-in-law. Not for the first time this month, we turned up at the CFR agency on Strada Brezoianu and were left [...]

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