Showing posts with label Bucharest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bucharest. Show all posts
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Bucharest's contrasts

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The  Sala Radio is one of Bucharest’s best-kept secrets – with great acoustics and the recitals broadcast on the radio. Its Radio Cham...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Romanian art slowly emerges from the shadows

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Bucharest’s newly-opened Museum of Art Collections is stunning – well worth the 20 year wait for its opening.  Housed in a huge, refur...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Cultural pursuits on a quiet Bucharest sunday

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Just as I maligned the city in my last post, Bucharest is now showing me a kinder face. Dental treatment has forced me to stay in the ci...
Monday, January 14, 2013

different municipal styles

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Over the past 6 years, I’ve basically spent most of the winters in Sofia and the summers (apart from 2008) in the Carpathian mountain hou...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Optimism, realism and scepticism

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First, a welcome to my new readers from the Ukraine – northern neighbours who, my statistics show, have been my most faithful readers o...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Bucharest antique fair

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An antique fair sets up on Parcu Kisselev most weekends – and I have always found it rather pathetic – full of shady characters. Sad – as I...
Monday, December 13, 2010

Oprescu destroys more of Bucharest's heritage

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More destruction here of irreplaceable monuments. Sarah’s blog tells me today that I wish I had known – I would have risen from my sick be...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Books

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A delightful day yesterday at the Annual Book Fair held in the huge Pavilion Expo beside the grotesque Stalinist Press House – which was „h...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Heritage and change - destroyers and builders

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Yesterday I had my first set of winter tyres fitted on a car – not just because of my experience a few weeks back but because a law could b...
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Monday, November 1, 2010

Sala Radio

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I’m glad to report on a great Syrian shop (with everything you could expect from such a shop – not least the glorious smell as you enter) i...
Monday, April 19, 2010

keeping traditions alive

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Had a nice time visiting the Carturesti bookshop yesterday – which spreads over about 7 floors and offers delightful varieties of tea and s...