Tag Archive for ‘bucharest’
Bucharest Visit
Ok it’s official. I’ll be flying into Bucharest for one day and one day only – December 15, next Wednesday. If you’d like to talk with me, sell my book, interview me, buy me a beer or anything else (in Bucharest) this is the time to do it. My contact details can always be found… Read More ›
Manholes, Dracula’s Castle, Saving Babies and a Romanian Comes Home
Very interesting little mix I managed to find here this morning whilst trawling the wires. I found an interesting blog that is dedicated to nothing but manholes. Say what? Yep, those heavy round metal discs that cover entrances to sewers and the like, and yesterday the blogger did a feature on some Romanian manholes, with… Read More ›
The Cartier
As you remember from previous posts of mine, in Romania all inhabited places are divided into cities (orase), towns (comune) and villages (sate). Although most Romanian “cities” are extremely small, they all usually have a significant geographic feature, a series of internal divisions, each one called a cartier (car-tea-AIR) or a “neighborhood”. All Romanians who… Read More ›
