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31 juillet 2010

The lost children of Tandarei

Following the last post and instead of sensibly going to bed (it's gone 2am), I began to dig up info on Tandarei. I wish I hadn't. It's endless, depressing, despairingly hopeless and tragic... (pic left: The Sun ) Tandarei, a remote town 150km from Bucharest,...

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31 juillet 2010

Jail for trafficking couple

They got a two and a half year sentence for trafficking, begging, stealing, benefit fraud, money laundering, child cruelty and neglect. Two and a half years!! It should have been far more - they will be out way sooner with yet more entrepreneurial ideas...

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29 juillet 2010

800,000 euros and another demand for a handout

Ridiculous...not happy with spending a fortune on 3D roadsigns, now this. 800,000 euros...and Basescu wants another IMF handout. What does he consider the IMF to be? Mos Craciun, perhaps? A bottomless piggy-bank? A money tree? The Ready-Cash Fairy? This...

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26 juillet 2010

Soutforkescu

A friend of mine told me about this last year, but I thought she'd fallen on her head so I didn't take her seriously....!! During a chatter on FB, the subject came up again. Once more, I thought I was dreaming. What am I gassing about this time? The Eiffel...

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25 juillet 2010

Digging up the past

Not quite sure what is going on with this whole exhumation story...on the one hand, we are told (can't remember where I read it, but read it I did) that the bodies of the Ceausescus had been thrown into graves ontaining nothing but sawdust. And today...

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25 juillet 2010

Respected and not debated

I was having a debate with someone just the other day about the Szekely of Transylvania...he suggested that they are not anti-Romanian at all and that a post I wrote back in July 2008 was insulting to a whole people... I stand by my views that there exists...

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25 juillet 2010

Piffle!

What utter piffle. Basescu, I am sure, has no more intention of helping the Rroma 'integrate' today than he did last year nor the year before. This is just another excuse to get an additional handout from the EU, as if its a bottomless pit of cash to...

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23 juillet 2010

Nuns on the run

From today's Telegraph (and thank you, Emil!) Two nuns go on run over threat to send them to retirement home Two fugitive nuns in their 80s have gone on the run in France to escape being sent to a retirement home by their Mother Superior. Published: 5:02PM...

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21 juillet 2010

Cum se mananca un pepene?

Un baietel face senzatie pe internet, mancand un pepene ... din interiorul acestuia Bucharest Herald Cum se mănâncă un pepene? Toată lumea ştie, dar se pare că un băieţel kurd are o soluţie mult mai interesantă şi eficientă: mănâncă pepenele dinăuntru...

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20 juillet 2010

La Multi Ani to the Ilies and Ileanas of the world!

Over 127,900 Romanians celebrate their patron saint’s day on Saint Ilie Bucharest Herald Over 127.944 Romanians are celebrating today their patron Saint Ilie. Out of the total, 113,932 are men and 14,012 are women, according to statistics provided by...

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19 juillet 2010

Another anniversary...

From History Today Srebrenica Massacre Remembered by Kathryn Hadley, Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, on July 11th, 1995, when the town was attacked by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of General Ratko Mladic. It is...

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18 juillet 2010

Violet, the woman who almost changed history

In 1926-7, three attempts were made on the life of Mussolini. Unfortunately, they all failed and the fascist regime used them to crack down harder than hard on all internal opposition. Violet Gibson came the closest to killing the dictator, shooting him...

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18 juillet 2010

Shoes on the Danube

Evocative and deeply touching, this memorial has, I think, broken my heart.... Around 20,000 jews were shot dead on the banks of the Danube in Budapest by the Hungarian Arrow Cross party between December 1944 and January 1945. This memorial of iron shoes...

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18 juillet 2010

It's a sign!!

Bravo! In times of recession, wouldn't dough have been better spent financing the rapidly dwindling pensions? Wouldn't Elena Udrea have been wiser saving money on the ridiculous shoes she distributed to the flood victims and give building materials instead...even...

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14 juillet 2010

From flames to watermelons

These journalists obviously have nothing better to do... (either that, or Geoana really has lost the plot) This from Bucharest Herald: Geoana the exorcist, from violet flame to Dabuleni watermelons: I get mad when I see Turkish watermelons E-mail Print...

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12 juillet 2010

It's a miracle!! Vision restored!

Sa razi sau sa te indignezi!!! This from Adevarul, and it is just the tip of the iceberg. There are literally hundreds of these ripoffs going on over periods of what must surely be years. And how wonderful that miracles happen, for in the country of my...

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12 juillet 2010

The love of Bucharest

Dear Everyone, How good it is to know that there are some nice things happening in and concerning Roumania instead of the sad, depressing and intolerable things that happen on a day to day level. What am I talking about? Blogs! Blogs have my attention...

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