I wish I could say that I were a “proper” blogger and took these photos myself but alas they are courtesy of Stiri de Cluj although to avoid use of their bandwidth, I am hosting these images myself. As you can see, the new trams (Rom: tramvaiuri) or light rail trains that will soon be circulating around Unicorn City have been officially unveiled. There is … Continue reading Unicorn Trams
Well I got some nice feedback on my piece a few days ago about how I could effectively make an enormous television camera disappear, so I thought I’d follow up on the subject a bit. In English there are some technical terms for all of this. Specifically “not seeing” an enormous television camera is inattentional blindness. As Wikipedia pithily puts it: Our attention cannot be … Continue reading It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been riding a lot of inter city buses lately as well as speaking with fellow passengers who are “old hands” at the system. And I have to be quite frank – the inter-city bus system in Romania is pretty awful. The only bright spot is that there is a rather comprehensive website that details just about every … Continue reading The Wheels on the Intercity Bus go Round and Round
I’m going to file this post under Poza Zilei (Picture of the day) because I’m going to write a much longer post in the near future on the subject but today’s photo was taken inside an intercity bus. This sign encapsulates the kind of hectoring attitude that is pretty prevalent in Romania, about which I’ve written about at length here (and in my book) under … Continue reading Proof of Civilization
Throughout the year and half I’ve been writing on this blog, by far the most popular article I’ve ever written was Choo-choo! Riding the rails ROMANIA style about some of my adventures on CFR Romanian Railways. It was a lot of fun writing that piece but I assure you that it is only a fraction of the many interesting experiences I’ve had while riding the … Continue reading Riding That Train
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