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29 juin 2012

Sergiu Celibidache - a global anniversary

(Photo source) Yesterday saw the centenary of the wonderful, reclusive and legendary Romanian-born conductor and composer, Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996). In his honour, UNESCO has declared 2012 the 'Global Anniversary of Sergiu Celibidache'. Sergiu Celibidache...

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26 juin 2012

Who is Dr Bradisteanu and why he deserves porridge

(Photo source: Bradisteanu measuring with both hands just how much he is prepared to lie, I guess) In comparison to Dr Bradisteanu, Adrian Nastase doesn't seem so bad, really.... I am appalled (and amazed) by the absurd ' we support Bradisteanu ' I have...

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24 juin 2012

June 23-24: Noaptea de Sanziene and Sărbătoarea Sânzienelor

(Photo source) ‘ Sanzienele ‘ represent a charming midsummer Romanian tradition with pre-Christian roots celebrated in the Banat, Maramures, Oltenia and Transylvania and coincides with the Orthodox holiday, Ioan Botezatorul (St. John the Baptist). Noaptea...

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14 novembre 2011

Oprescu attacks Nicusor Dan and Salvati Bucurestiul on Realitatea

(Photo source) Now we have heard it all. Can Mayor Oprescu sink any lower...? The answer to that is...probably. On Realitatea last Saturday, he openly attacked 'civil society' and particularly Salvati Bucurestiul, accusing the association of wanting to...

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16 juillet 2012

My way or the highway

(Image source) It causes chagrin when one can no longer speak one's mind... The general Romanian atmosphere, particularly on Facebook at the moment, makes that very difficult. Today, I have seen a friend of mine totally slammed for having opinions that...

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10 avril 2008

Some music for you

During our time in Sibiu, Flori wrote a horde of Roumanian musicians on Rosie's train ticket so I could go and discover them on Youtubes. As I'm staying home today, it's the perfect opportunity. I wanted to share some real gems with you. The first Romica...

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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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11 avril 2008

Micul Paris!

Dear Everyone, Today, Rosie and I went for a wonderful walk, a Nicole Tour (the first of many, I have the distinct feeling!), planned by Nicole herself in faraway Connecticut, USA. I received a fabulously detailed e-mail yesterday with an itinerary of...

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10 avril 2008

Magdalena Radulescu

Dear Everybody With nothing else to do coz I still feel like varza, (Aura called to see if I wanted to pop round and keep her company in str. Drobeta while she finished packing up her old office, but even that I couldn't manage - pathetic!) I've been...

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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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2 janvier 2008

Happy New Year!

Dear Everyone, I hope you all had a lovely end of the old year and a joyful start to the new. My 2007 ended beautifully with Lidia, Manny, Nick, Rodica and Lidia's mum in Brasov. I've never liked New Year as there are so many loved and lost I miss at...

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28 décembre 2007

Christmas with Mariana, the Winter Festival and back to Bucharest

Wow! What an incredible Christmas it's been! It all began with a night train to Cluj. After a student breakfast of coffee, bread and nutella, we hit the road and made it to Sighet in four and a half hours. Mariana was waiting with a huge lunch (the shape...

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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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8 juillet 2008

The 4 Friends Identified!

I went for a walk on Thursday beginning with the memorial house of George Calinescu (literary critic, author, historian to name a few of the strings to his bow). It's a lovely little house comprising of two rooms, books from floor to ceiling and paintings...

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10 juillet 2008

Corneliu M. Popescu

Born in 1958, Corneliu is by far my favourite translator of Eminescu to date (my apologies to all others who have tried). When I first arrived in Bucharest all those years ago, I decided that to understand the Romanian soul, I would have to study its...

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12 juillet 2008

Barbu Stirbey and Ileana von Kripp

Dear Everybody, The time has come to tell you a little about another colourful Roumanian personality, Prince Barbu Stirbey (1873-1946). Why? Well, frankly why not. And because he was quite a character. His mother was Maria Ghika-Comanesti (important to...

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21 juillet 2008

The Book of Departing, by Sanda Golopentia

The unthinkable pain of exile, the ripping away of all that is known and taking a leap off a precipice into the unknown...How Sanda Golopentia explains this with profound insight, depth and first-hand knowledge. It almost had me in tears, as I thought...

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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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4 août 2008

Transfagarasan

Dear Everyone, I'm still reeling from the marvellous weekend up in the clouds with Lidia and Marian. The Transfagarasan is the highest and most dramatic road in all of Roumania and up there, nothing else but the view and the clean air seems of any importance....

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5 août 2008

Bears again

In light of the rising frequency of human - grizzly bear conflicts, the Brasov Mountain Department at Tampa is advising hikers to take extra precautions and keep alert for bears while out in the open. "We advise that hikers wear noisy little bells on...

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5 août 2008

Cristina Lapis - The Bear Minimum

Cristina Lapis is an incredible woman - the Brigitte Bardot of Roumania. Owner of the shelter 'Milioane de Prieteni' (Millions of Friends) Association where there are currently 800 dogs marvellously and lovingly cared for, she is also founder of LiBearTy...

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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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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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20 août 2008

At last, another newspaper reports on Todea...

Imi cer iertare fata de cei pe care i-am turnat Ziua, 20/08/2008 -- E regizor, director al Teatrului "Ion Creanga" din Bucuresti si fost vicepresedinte al Uniunii Teatrale din Romania. Are "origini burgheze" si timp de 60 de ani si-a ascuns legatura cu...

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