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23 juin 2008

A wonderful day at Bellu

Dear Everyone, What a wonderful day! Despite the 34°, Lucia and I were under the shadey trees at Bellu cemetry for the whole afternoon. Five hours of pure bliss, wandering between the memorials, mausoleums, crypts and tombs of the great names of Roumanian...

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19 juin 2008

Rarararararaaaaaa!!!

Dear Everybody This is just to let you know that part by miracle, part by Gaby's degree in Public Relations and Communications Science, and part by good old Roumanian customer service that albeit didn't exist at Altex ... I have airconditioning both delivered...

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13 juin 2008

La revedere!

Dear Everyone, Rosie and I are off to Brasov for the weekend. Very impatient to see Lidia and Marian - it's been seven weeks since we were last together so there's a lot of catching up to do. The coolness of the mountains isn't far away. Here in Bucharest,...

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12 juin 2008

Marin Sorescu and Shakespeare

Whilst in Dalles yesterday, which professes a wonderful second-hand bookshop, I stumbled upon a book of his poetry deliciously translated by various translators. Suffice to say that it's in Romanian, English and Italian, and I'm so thrilled to have found...

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12 juin 2008

Mihai Eminescu - 'Now far I am from you'

Mihai Eminescu (January 15, 1850 – June 15, 1889), born Mihail Eminovici, was a late romantic Romanian poet, unanimously celebrated as the greatest and most representative of his country. Nicolae Iorga, the Romanian historian, considered Eminescu the...

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9 juin 2008

Tiav Gallery

From Nine O'Clock: Tiav Gallery to open a new exhibition room published in issue 4198, p. 12, 09/06/08 The Foundation SOCIETA Club UNESCO will open a new exhibition room at the Tiav Gallery in the old part of Bucharest (end of str. Cauzasilor, sector...

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8 juin 2008

Sunday Morning Walk With Eugenia

Dear Everybody, Happy Sunday! I've just come back from a lovely walk around the Kiselef area with Eugenia. Nicole sent me an album with some gorgeous houses, some of which were in this neighbourhood, and I was keen to go and see them. Eugenia was just...

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7 juin 2008

Welcome Home, King Mihai.

From the Herald Tribune BUCHAREST, Romania: The Romanian government said Thursday it would return a castle and other confiscated property to former King Michael. Peles castle was built in the mountain resort of Sinaia in the late 19th century by Romania's...

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1 juin 2008

Caru' Cu Bere

I knew Caru' cu Bere had always been a beer cavern, founded in 1875 and so-named because a beer cart delivered there but that was the extent of my knowledge. Its history however, is fascinating.... As the Peace treaty was being signed in Berlin in 1878,...

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31 mai 2008

Criticism from Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet 2008 Guide: Foreign tourists who visit Romania are advised to avoid pickpockets, taxi drivers without taximeters and stray dogs by Radu Rizea HotNews.ro Miercuri, 28 mai 2008, 9:51 English | Bucharest "Thieves, taxi drivers who don't use...

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31 mai 2008

Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu

THE RELEVANCE OF THE COMMUNIST PAST 28/05/2008 Radio Roumania International "Launched at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest, the project is an effort to reconstruct the history of the Romanian gulag. Arrested by the communist political police...

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27 mai 2008

Monica Lovinescu on Adriana Georgescu

My God, how Monica Lovinescu is missed. Here she is introducing the book 'In The Beginning Was The End' by her friend, Adriana Georgescu, one of the first victims of the pro-soviet government which came to power on 6th March, 1945. A talented journalist,...

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13 mai 2008

Monday Evening

Dear All, Brigitte and I arrived at the 21 Dec Association, 24a Str. Batistei (pic left), slap bang opposite the old Securitate building, to discover that everyone had left. But never mind! Carmen Dorotheea (pic right with Brigitte) was there manning...

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11 mai 2008

For Rumiana Mestrovic

Dear Prof. Mestrovic, Thank you so much for posting your comment on my blog re: the new statue of Carol I at Pta Revolutiei. I'm very flattered that you took the time to do so and would like to know if you would mind my putting it where my readers can...

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7 mai 2008

Rocky Horror Comes To Bucharest!

Dear Everyone, Look what I just found! I'm sooooo excited! At laaaaaast! 29th May is a Thursday, though, so I'll be nose to grindstone...however, that's the premiere. Hopefully there'll be weekend shows, too. Oh...wow! But how to sing The Time Warp in...

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4 mai 2008

Womens voices of Roumania

Dear Everyone, Below, some incredible extracts taken from a beautifully written book, "Blouse Roumaine" (inspired by a Matisse painting) by Constantin Roman. It is a tribute to the voices of Romanian women, both heard and unheard. You can find the link...

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3 mai 2008

New Quartier

Dear All, Having finished a private class near Pta Dorobanti today I decided to try to get some exercise despite screaming back ache (it's so wet and humid, I guess that's why...) and have a trot round my new quartier. It was a lovely surprise to discover...

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3 mai 2008

Italian cousins?

Okay, all my dearly beloved Roumanian friends...do you really feel cousins to the Italians? Really? Honestly? Yes? Well then, have a look at the following and tell me if there's a connection. This is very funny! http://tcc.itc.it/people/rocchi/fun/europe.html...

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30 avril 2008

Ana Blandiana

HERE is a great interview (despite ropey translation into English) between poet Ana Blandiana and Naomi Frandzen of Georgetown University, Washington DC. Ana Blandiana describes so many things that we lucky ones from 'the West' can't even gleen to imagine...

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30 avril 2008

Good Question:

Commentary: Why Does Monica Lovinescu Matter? Radio Free Europe By Vladimir Tismaneanu Monica Lovinescu (GNU) (Monica Lovinescu, a Paris-based literary critic and journalist who encouraged intellectual resistance to Romania's communist regime from the...

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