Well, at long last Episode 5 is now available for your viewing pleasure :) For those of you who aren’t mathematically challenged, you might wonder what happened to Episode 4 and you’d be right :P The truth is that a few technical issues were driving me nuts with clipping so many interviews (plus adding subtitles) that I just wrapped up Episode 5 and will finish … Continue reading Romania! The Documentary – Episode 5
Yesterday I had a chance to see the final installment of the “flying market” in Cluj’s central Piata Unirii (Unification Square). As you can see above, originally this market was supposed to be operated in the same location every Saturday but due to a huge political spat, yesterday was the last time such a market will be held at that location. The good news (for … Continue reading Unicorn City’s Flying Market
I’m one of those few people who rarely eat sweet foods – desserts. Heck, I moved to Romania partly because I enjoy all the sour, pickled foods. Certainly there is a strong pickled/sour component to Romanian cooking but there is also a wide variety of desserts. The treats that Romanians enjoy aren’t all exactly analogous to the desserts most English-speaking people are familiar with, so … Continue reading Let Them Eat Chec!
As someone who writes about Romania in (almost entirely) English, there’s always a risk that I will be badly misunderstood. Over the last 24 hours, I’ve actually had people read my post (on The Economist) and think I was the one saying Romania was racist. If you can’t understand I was saying the complete opposite, perhaps there are other things you’re not understanding as well. … Continue reading Taietura Porcului
Part one is here. I see today the newspaper Adevarul has a new new article for their “Living on a minimum wage salary” series. Unsurprisingly, the four boys are almost completely out of food. After literally wasting money right and left at the grocery store, they’re down to eating bread and butter, which is apparently “affecting” their studies. Ridiculous to the extreme, especially looking at … Continue reading Eating On a Budget In Romania: Part 2
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