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20 août 2008

Next stop: Iasi

Dear Everybody, Back from Timisoara, a few days in Bucharest (with Aura and Aylin, dear Nely, as well as Tantza and Mandita - please spare a thought for poor Nicu, back in hospital again and operated on a broken elbow) and tomorrow off once more, this...

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30 novembre 2009

Doina Cornea victim of burglary

Such shameful foulness... Doina Cornea robbed???? It's like robbing Mother Teresa. How can anyone do such a thing??? Such a brave and determined woman who fought so hard against the oppression, cruelty, mental paralysis and cultural decapitation under...

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26 août 2008

PS - Iasi, Palace of Culture

Dear Everybody, I stand corrected...the Palace of Culture in Iasi isn't closed for just a season due to renovation. It's closed for three whole years, dammit!!! Total idiocy. I'm lost for words (makes a change)... So, if you're going to Iasi, don't bother...

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9 septembre 2009

The houses that cry...

So, it happened (please click and read article from Le Petit Journal). They killed it. The house at str. Maria Rosetti, 38. The investor that bought it had it ripped down illegally last weekend - no permission to demolish and without the knowledge of...

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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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22 décembre 2007

Happy Christmas!

Dear Everyone, Well, this is it. 'Deck the halls with boughs of holly, falalalalaaaaaaa lalalala!...' etc... I leave in an hour and will be back in Bucharest on Thursday 28th December all being well. It's been a hectic week despite no work, and has gone...

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5 novembre 2009

The Pig Flu Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Dear Everyone, This whole 'flu' issue is becoming way too complicated....what are we supposed to think? There's H1N1, Novel and Swine Flu viruses and noone seems to know which is which or whether they are all the same or...which one has a curly tail and...

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6 novembre 2009

Tudor Banus - Exhibition in Paris 8è

Bucharest born Tudor Banus: Painter, artist, engraver, author, book (see pix right - "The Muppet Show Book" by its inventor and "Particularly Cats" by Doris Lessing) and press illustrator whilst also being a friend of mine (which certainly adds to your...

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30 novembre 2009

Book recommendation - "Dracula is Dead"

Dear Everyone, I cannot comment on the article below as I haven't read the book. However, London seems to be quite taken with it and it's reported to be the long overdue reference to Roumania we've all been waiting for. If it's a history book by which...

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5 mars 2010

Dr. Djuvara decorated

Bravo! And not a moment too soon. Better late than never, though this should have happened years ago. This from Nine O'Clock: Neagu Djuvara to be decorated by French state 05.03.10 | by: Nine oClock | in: homenews 'Historian Neagu Djuvara will be awarded...

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7 mars 2010

Too bad for the pike...

Just received this by e-mail. Hope the rest of the world is paying attention - so much cruelty to animals, which isn't surprising when man's inhumanity to man is so flagrant (see yesterday's post as a case in point). About time animals had lawyers. I...

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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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9 mars 2010

URGENT - tragic ends for historical souls in Bucharest

Please go to THIS BLOG SITE at once and see the list of lovely old houses in Bucharest that ended up demolished despite public outcry...all beautiful (pix left Batistei, 26, the house that made me want to cuddle it - it has such character and just look...

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15 mars 2010

Ion B makes the headlines!

Hey look! It's Ion B!! Art world swoons over Romania's homeless genius 63-year-old former tramp celebrated for collages made during Ceausescu regime Gallery: the art of Ion Barladeanu Lizzy Davies in Paris guardian.co.uk , Friday 26 February 2010 20.45...

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15 mars 2010

Herta's informer revealed

This from Radio Free Europe Parallel Paths, Opposite Destinies Mueller (second from left) with literary colleagues in 1985. Her informer moved in the same circles. January 14, 2010 Shortly after Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller was awarded the...

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18 avril 2010

Malaele in Italy

My very favourite Roumanian actor (and many other talents besides) Malaele wows Florence. The following article from the Bucharest Herald: Lectia lui Malaele apropie Florenta de Bucuresti E-mail Print PDF Spectacolul „Lecţia” de Eugene Ionesco, în regia...

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19 avril 2010

Far right strengthens in Hungary

The following article is from the BBC - very worrying indeed... It has been known for a while that Hungary's rascism in the form of anti-semitism has deepened...but to swing far right to such an extent is not only sobering, but frightening. Hungary's...

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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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13 juillet 2008

George Bratianu

This Romanian family really is an incredible one. Every member is fascinating, their lives mostly sad, mostly terribly unjust. The Bratianu's (of which Ileana von Kripp's mother, Maria Emanuelle dit 'Manola' is a member, and thus Ileana herself, also...

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26 avril 2010

No more drugs for HIV patients

News from the Guardian...quel cata. It's unbelievable...and a death sentence. Romania runs out of Aids drugs The lives of people with HIV in Romania are being put at risk as the country runs out of drugs to keep them alive, say NGOs, while the government...

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17 juillet 2008

Walk with Mihai

Dear Everyone, Today, having spent a morning teaching and helping Tantza white-wash her little flat, I met Mihai at Pta Romana for a walk with Rosie. We began meandering our way down to str. Ion Campaneanu with the intention of visiting the roads adjacent...

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21 mai 2010

Paintings nicked in Paris

Paris art thief appears more no-frills than thrillseeker Christophe Girard, deputy Paris mayor, gives a press conference outside the Musee d'Art Moderne. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters The Guardian The deputy culture secretary at Paris city hall...

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24 mai 2010

Child Prostitution Racket Unearthed in France

Parent-led child prostitution ring arrested in Bordeaux Église Notre-Dame, Bordeaux Photo: Christophe Finot By RFI Nine Bulgarians suspected of forcing their eight children to work as prostitutes on the streets of Bordeaux were arrested by French police...

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25 mai 2010

It's a miracle!

First the violet flame, then the miraculous conception! It's all happening in the country of my heart! Bravo! Does anyone actually believe such drivel, after all? A 56 year old woman who couldn't become pregnant 5 years ago now has and her child is supposed...

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30 mai 2010

Just another Dracula book?

Wrote about this book in December last year - now here it is again, and with James Rosapepe speaking about Roumania and its people. How marvellous to read something so positive and open-hearted for once: From The Examiner: "Dracula is Dead"- A Book About...

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