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22 janvier 2014

In memory. And in anger.

(Photo source: Roza Zah) I don't want to go into details of the dramatic forced landing of a plane (misleadingly reported as a 'crash' by the majority of Romanian press) in the Apuseni mountains near Cluj on Monday afternoon. You can find reports all...

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8 août 2015

Turning back the clocks with Sanda Marin

(Photo source - 1936, 2nd edition) The cookery book, in an advanced stage of tatters (though cunningly held together with wrapping paper, paper clips and willpower), sits on the work surface in the kitchen ready for action. Its discoloured pages have...

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21 mars 2014

Book launch: 'Ultimul Nud' by Ellis Avery

(Image source ) The launching of Ultimul Nud (The Last Nude) by Ellis Avery, translated into Romanian by translator and journalist (ex-Reuters) Roxana Dascalu at Libraria Humanitas near Cismigiu on April 1st at 19h promises to be full of surprises. A...

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17 novembre 2013

Romania will NOT be held to ransom. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.

(Photo source) What is it going to take for RMGC to understand and accept that their gold-mining project at Rosia Montana is NOT wanted in Romania? Last Monday, the joint parliamentary commission for Rosia Montana voted NO to a draft bill submitted by...

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3 juillet 2014

Anni-Lorei Mainka - goodbye but never farewell

(Photo source) It was with enormous sadness that I learned this morning of poet Anni-Lorei Mainka's passing - and I still cannot believe it. It is impossible to say that 'she died', because people like Anni-Lorei never do. Her enormous heart, immense...

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22 octobre 2013

Romica Puceanu: Romania's own Cesaria Evora

(Photo source) As I sat waiting for my students to show up this morning, I had a recording of Romica Puceanu and the Gore Brothers playing on my pc. Simply wonderful. They appeared with their coffee and sat quietly (pretty rare!) to listen, too. My original...

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6 septembre 2013

UNITI, SALVAM ROSIA MONTANA!

(Photo: Sarah In Romania) Protests have erupted throughout Romania and across Europe with people flooding the streets in their THOUSANDS, triggered by the Romanian government's approval of a draft 'law' granting national interest status to the Canadian...

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14 juin 2013

'Despre mineri, manipulare, si un miracol blestemat' de Roxana Dascalu

This afternoon, I received this very moving and superbly written note on FB by my friend, journalist Roxana Dascalu, in response to my post HERE yesterday (which, I'm ashamed to say, reads like a cold list of distant events rather than something emotional...

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28 février 2013

Martisor - 1st March

(Photo source) This time of year is packed to the brim with wonderful traditions in Romania. To mark the beginning of a new life cycle through the arrival of spring, Mărțișor is held on March 1st which, according to the old calendar, is also the Spring...

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30 janvier 2013

Here's back atcha!! Romania's answer to UK's proposed negative ad campaign

(Photo source) Well, it was sure to happen and it has. Hurrah! A very bright Romanian campaign has hit back in style at the proposed negative ad absurdity in Britain aimed at keeping Romanians and Bulgarians OUT. Oh-You-Tee. That's right. OUT. Concerned...

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31 août 2012

Mogosoaia with an exceptional guide :o)

For this post, I am handing you over to my own marvellous personal guide, Silvia Colfescu, with whom I visited Mogosoaia on Tuesday. I have been there many times and thought I knew it well, but of course, I did not. With her anecdotes, stories and tales...

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22 juillet 2012

Rhapsodies, ballads, horas, tarantellas - and seeing Romania as God intended

There are few things more soothing than shutting one's eyes and drifting off, bewitched by the spells of Enescu, Dimitrescu, Porumbescu and Negrea, to the swirling mist-enveloped mountain peaks, endlessly rolling hills, babbling brooks, joyous waterfalls,...

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25 mai 2012

Diagnostic error for Serban Ionescu? Perplexing news...

(Image source) It has just emerged that the Lyme disease diagnosis given to the much-loved actor, Serban Ionescu, may have been erroneous. Mr Ionescu was diagnosed three weeks ago, after having presented with debilitating symptoms, perhaps following a...

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16 mai 2012

Has sufferance been used as marketing strategy?

(Please click on source HERE) Just this evening, I noticed a message on Facebook that was doing the rounds, complete with photograph of the actor Serban Ionescu, today very seriously ill from Lyme disease. A little background for those who do not know...

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16 mai 2012

The truth about Lyme Disease: important facts and info - PLEASE SHARE

(Image source) The recent news concerning actor Serban Ionescu who contracted Lyme disease after a tick bite last summer, Romanian medics' questionable understanding regarding the disease and the misguiding and sometimes completely inaccurate articles...

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25 novembre 2011

"Is University producing citizens or idiots?" Protest at the Faculty of History

28th November The symbolic 100h will come to an end, I'm told, at around 22h tonight. The manifesto will be given to the press along with demands made and suggested solutions THIS EVENING at 22h - symbolically at the end of the 100h. Alexandru says, "...

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3 mars 2012

Cine este Nicusor Dan?

Many thanks to Mihaela Mihaila for this translation into Romanian from the original article posted HERE dating from 1st December, 2011. Today, with the news of the attempted demolition of Hala Matache (see post below HERE), Nicusor Dan is no longer a...

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27 février 2012

"Ekh! Rumania, Rumania, Rumania … Geven amol a land a zise, a sheyne."

(Photo source) "Aaaaah, Rumania, Rumania, Rumania, Rumaaaaaaaaaaania!!!" As I worked this morning, the Barry Sisters (Claire and Merna Barry - originally Clara and Minnie Bagelman, born in the Bronx in a Yiddish-speaking home) came on the radio with their...

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15 octobre 2011

Classical v Modern manele, muzica lautareasca, populara, folk and...still not entirely clear!

(Image source) After having read an article from Romania Libera (dated March 2011) this morning announcing the introduction of manele classes at Conservatorul din Bucuresti, I was stunned. I had visions of Florin Salam, today's most popular manelist and...

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29 mai 2011

English version: "Casa Spiru Haret - a national shame" by Silvia Colfescu

(Photo source) The below article is the latest post from Silvia Colfescu's blog Istorioare Bucurestene, 'Casa Spiru Haret - o rusine nationala' - indeed, it IS a national shame, particularly when you consider it is on the list of protected patrimonial...

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21 février 2011

Shocking news - the possible future destruction of Bucharest: URGENT INFO

(Photo: Aurelien Geldof) This evening, I received a very disturbing e-mail forwarding information re: future plans of the North-South Road to further tear through Bucharest. It concerns the zone of Pta Romana - Dacia - Cal. Victoriei - Polona - M. Eminescu...

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21 janvier 2011

A final goodbye to Cristi Paturca: prophesy or anthem?

And so Cristi Paturca was laid to rest today not at all as he had planned, but nevertheless, the final goodbyes have now been said, en masse, and wonderfully captured for posterity HERE by TVR. The crowds speak for themselves and even the priest sings...

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2 octobre 2010

Dracula, the true story...

Count Dracula has been undead for a hundred and thirteen years. He is a legend mixed with reality, superstition and fearful fantasies for nobody else in all of history impaled as many victims as Vlad Tepes... Bram Stoker was studying medicine, ethnology...

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4 septembre 2010

'Parfumeria' by Silvia Kerim

Floating around on FaceBook this morning in my usual quest for news of friends, trying not to miss a thing (!!), I found a message on my wall from my friend, Mihaela. It was the most wonderful message, for it jolted me from a reverie of complacency and...

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15 septembre 2009

Nicu

And so, Nicu has finally closed his eyes for the last time. He died at 16h45 this afternoon following cardiac arrest, with Mandita at his bedside, just as she has always been since he was admitted to hospital four months ago. Roumania has lost many artists...

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