A few years ago, the government re-arranged telephone numbers in this country to make them a lot simpler to use. Nonetheless, it can sometimes be confusing. To understand, let’s look at a real telephone number, that of the mayor of Cluj, the city where I live: +40 264.592.301 To begin with, the +40 is Romania’s country code, so this phone number has been written in … Continue reading Let’s Talk About Telephones
From here: Thanks so much, you live in an amazing & vibrant city. It’s been awesome and the people have been very kind to us. Cheers! Suck on it, haters ;) Continue reading Another Satisfied Visitor
The sun is steadily fading over the horizon and nightfall is descending. Yet you aren’t tired, in fact, the opposite. You feel a nervous rhythm in your blood and a strange excitement. You want to go out! But what is there to do in Romania? Well my friend, if “going out” at night to public places, especially ones with loud music and lots of alcoholic … Continue reading Nightlife in Romania
If there is one national “comfort food” in Romania, it has to be the dish sarmale, inherited from the long centuries of Turkish rule. Simply put, sarmale (sar-mall-eh) are cabbage leaves which are folded around a special filling into little “packages” and then (further) cooked. Because this is a Balkans-wide dish, there are as many variants of sarmale but the Romanian version generally has two … Continue reading Sarmale
As I mentioned in this post, the Romanian day is divided somewhat differently that in other places, with morning ending before noon and evening, more or less, beginning at dusk. These are critically important when referring to times. Maine (mwee-nay) – Tomorrow Ieri (yair) – Yesterday Astazi (ah-stoz) – Today Although this doesn’t immediately appear to be devolved from Latin, it is. It stands for … Continue reading Time To Learn About Time
