Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Campulung - one of many of Romania's small jewels

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We drove yesterday over the spectacular passes from Fundata to Campulung and through the various fascinating settlements which line the ...
Monday, July 29, 2013

post-industrial dereliction

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Detroit (briefly) hit the news recently as the first US city to declare bankruptcy. The statistics are horrific – In half a century, thi...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

going out in style

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OK removing myself from the Amazon tentacles in true masochistic style – with 24 books waiting for me in about 8 separate packages and d...
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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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Confessions of an Amazon addict – breaking the habit

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Over the past decade I must have bought at least 500 books from Amazon – my nomadic existence made this highly convenient. I could have t...
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...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Romanian Diary 1958

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A nice discovery in a Magheru Bvd bookshop – a book of black and white photographs of Romania in 1958 produced by a photographer Inge ...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Among you, taking notes

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I am not a fan of the city of Bucharest. I find it ugly, noisy, and dirty. I find it difficult to understand its fans – such as one PVE ...