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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

One house dies as two more are racked with sobs

Horror. Absolute horror. It doesn't matter whether there's an election or not, does it. I should stop kidding myself. People don't behave any better even during election campaigns. There has been yet MORE destruction in Bucharest. Yet more obliteration...

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6 août 2008

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn leaves us, aged 89.

Dear Everybody, Oh how sorry I am, how deeply sad. Yet another huge loss for Eastern European Culture. Just shows how out of touch I am here on my Roumanian cloud of bonheur...I only glanced at the papers online tonight to avoid thinking about 12th September...

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6 novembre 2009

Smart specs!

Wow! Just think how much easier life could be with a pair of these! I'd put them on your Christmas list if I were you! This from the BBC: Smart spectacles aid translation The spectacles are due to go on sale in Japan in 2010 Spectacles that can provide...

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29 juillet 2008

Casa Nenitescu in ruins

It is truly horrifying to see that beautiful house on str. Scoalei, 8 in such a terrible state, looted and vandalised repeatedly as it stands there empty, its fate uncertain. A battle to save the house has been ongoing for the last year. In February of...

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28 octobre 2009

Theatre Night!

Bravo, bravo, city of my heart! White Night at the Theatre! What a fantastic idea. Click here for the programme of what's on where, curtesy of Nine O'Clock. You're pretty much spoiled for choice though I would be pulled between the Comedy Theatre with...

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26 octobre 2009

One thing remained - language.

Dear Everyone, Nothing can tear me away from the texts of Herta Muller. What an incredible writer she is. How very scarred and tortured are her thoughts, how cruel her past and how courageous her determination and drive. The very fact that she is alive...

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