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Scenes (or seeds?) from Parcul Titan

by Craig Turp June 20, 2011 Bucharest

 We love Bucharest’s parks, but we really are fed up with the discarded shells of sunflower seeds that get left under almost every park bench. Here’s a quick selection of scenes from the otherwise faultless Parcul Titan, taken on a quiet Sunday morning… We’ve said it before and we will say it again: surely it [...]

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From Pantelimon to Berceni in 3 hours 28 minutes: Notes from the Bucharest Metro Challenge

by Craig Turp September 19, 2010 Bucharest

 So we did it. In the absence of anyone else mad enough to do so, Bucharest Life and son on Saturday became the first people to visit every station on the Bucharest metro in one go. We did it in three hours, 28 minutes and 24 seconds: more or less what we expected. We would [...]

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So what are the best five things about Bucharest?

by Craig Turp September 7, 2009 Bucharest

 We had a journalist (a real one, from a newspaper) in the office on Friday, asking, amongst other things, for our opinion on the new Tourist Information Centre at Gara de Nord (more on this soon). He also wanted to know what we thought were the five best and worst things about Bucharest. The worst [...]

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Bucharest now has two great parks, neither of which is Herastrau

by Craig Turp August 10, 2009 Bucharest

 If you follow us on Twitter, or ever browse an issue of Bucharest In Your Pocket, then you would have noticed that we have more than a passing interest in the state of Bucharest’s parks. Not merely because we want to bring people the most up-to-date info, but also because, as parents, a large slice [...]

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Where can we find Bucharest’s best ice cream? Because it ain’t Betty Ice

by Craig Turp June 22, 2009 Bucharest

 As anyone who has children will know, there are few things on earth more dangerous than a two year old with an ice cream cornet, which is why, given the option, we always go for the ‘stick it in a cup and give us a spoon’ option. So we tried that yesterday, at an ice [...]

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Dogs: Why only a zero tolerance policy is now acceptable

by Craig Turp May 18, 2009 Bucharest

 Took the kids to Titan yesterday, to the big park. It’s nice, very nice. A park that would be considered a nice place in any city in the world. Terraces have been built into the banks that lead down towards the artificial lake, and fine wooden benches, flower beds and lawns added. The large and [...]

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