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Sightseeing in Bucharest: What should be labelled essential?

by Craig Turp August 16, 2011 Bucharest

 As part of what will be a fairly serious overhaul and rewrite of the What to See section in Bucharest In Your Pocket, we are currently reconsidering what should be labelled as ‘Essential Bucharest.’ Right now, these are currently our ‘Essential Bucharest‘ picks: Arc de Triumf Bellu Cemetery Casa Poporului George Enescu Museum Grigore Antipa [...]

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Around Bucharest with a tripod

by Craig Turp November 15, 2009 Bucharest

 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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Bucharest’s Village Museum: Good, but much better when there’s a fair on.

by Craig Turp October 28, 2009 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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