If you’ve been reading my blog since April, you know I’ve been displaying a badge for Let’s Do It Romania in the sidebar, an advertisement for a nationwide event which will take place this Saturday. Simply put, it’s going to be a single day in which close to 60,000 volunteers are going to pick up trash to help clean up the country. Sounds good, right? … Continue reading Zoso Vs. Let’s Do It Romania
Ok who likes pickles? Yum, I sure do! Although nothing can top a Romanian grandmother’s jar of homemade pickles, carefully stored down in her root cellar for months, it’s actually rather easy to make your own incredibly delicious pickles at home. Although this recipe is variable and can be used to pickle almost any vegetable, today we’ll talk about pickling cucumbers specifically, known in Romanian … Continue reading Pickles!!!
Probably one of the most common slang words used in Romania today, smecherie (shmeck-air-ee-eh) is simply put, the art of being a smecher (shmeck-air). Yet if you plug the word into a dictionary, what you get is “sly boots” or a “cunning person”. Close but not exactly right. The noun smecherie comes from the German word “Schmecker”, which just means someone who is employed as … Continue reading Slang Word of the Day: Smecherie
Over the years, I’ve been surprised at both the dangers that visitors falsely believe are all around them as well as the ones they completely ignore, therefore I thought it was about time to set the record straight, so to speak. Therefore let me say this before anything else: Romania is an incredibly safe place. Really and truly. Outside of the Peace Museum in Sweden, … Continue reading Dangers in Romania
Below are the top 10 searches that have brought people to this blog. All of the following are linked to the corresponding article(s), where appropriate: Rank Search Term 1 hopa slang 2 Adrian Minune 3 slang hopa 4 romanian slang 5 I’m more Romanian than you 6 Romania 7 TAROM 8 Romanian grammar 9 drum bun 10 Andreea Petria . Clearly number five is the … Continue reading Top Ten Searches That Bring People Here
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