When we were still in short trousers, one of the most talked-about programmes on television was a wonderfully low-budget BBC sci-fi adaption of John Christopher’s Tripods books.
The plot, in a nutshell, is this: humanity has been conquered and enslaved by The Tripods, unseen alien entities who travel about in gigantic, terrifying three-legged walking machines.
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Around Bucharest with a tripod
Bucharest’s Village Museum: Good, but much better when there’s a fair on.
On Saturday we went to Bucharest’s Village Museum, one of those few sights in the capital that we can safely label Essential without looking stupid.
We’ve always liked it, though we have a few reservations (mainly the fact that it presents a somewhat false idyll: most Romanian villages are simply not like this).
Anyway, this weekend the [...]