Transfagarasan Highway

Some Bucharest In Your Pocket bits and pieces you might have missed…

by Craig Turp February 23, 2011 Bucharest

 Although we are certain that most of you are regular readers and fans of the fruits of our day job, Bucharest In Your Pocket, we thought we might highlight a couple of features that you might have missed… First off, there’s the Bucharest Earthquake of 1977 – the 34th anniversary of which (March 4th) approaches. [...]

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Almost six months on, Top Gear is still causing offence amongst Romania’s ostrich population

by Craig Turp April 15, 2010 Bucharest

 Oh dear. It appears that some Romanian with a grudge against the Daily Telegraph, Top Gear and Britain in general successfully hacked into the Daily Telegraph’s website last night, replacing a sub-domain page with his (or her) own rant about how Britain continually misrepresents Romania’s image. The hacker, or hackers – calling himself RNS: Romanian [...]

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Top Gear in Romania: Do you know what good press is?

by Craig Turp November 23, 2009 Romania

 Last weekend, the BBC’s Top Gear featured Romania heavily (especially the Transfagarasan highway) in the first programme of a new series. If you have not seen the programme, tough: it was on You Tube but the BBC has taken at least some of the videos down (and not without good reason, they do own the [...]

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Balea Lac is the only serious option for a proper Romanian ski resort

by Craig Turp August 21, 2009 Romania

 A story in Evenimentul Zilei caught our eye this morning: Romania’s much-maligned (and rightly so) Ministry of Tourism is launching a campaign called ‘Schi in Romania’ (no translation required) and is splashing the cash on improving several of Romania’s tiny little one-lift ski resorts. The largest slice of the cake will go to Petrosani, the [...]

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Man drives over Transfagarasan pass and does not take any photos

by Craig Turp August 18, 2009 Romania

 In what’s being hailed as a first, a man yesterday drove the full length of Romania’s majestic Transfagarasan pass and did not stop to take a single photo. Despite a massive search earlier today, not one photograph of the man’s drive over the Transfagarasan could be found on the internet. Police are treating the case [...]

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