Romanian start-up Questo, a platform for city exploration games, has raised 300,000 euros to help travelers and locals explore destinations by going on tours in game form, called quests. The round was led by Sparking Capital with participation from...
Tag - Bucharest
One of the first assignments I ever undertook as reporter in Romania, back in 1999, was to visit the so-called Spring Palace in the plush Primaverii neighbourhood of the...
The people of Bucharest, Romania’s capital, appear to have decided that coronavirus no longer exists, or at the very least is no longer a threat. Despite face masks...
Budapest has been named as the most business-friendly city in emerging Europe as part of the 2020 Emerging Europe Awards. Emerging Europe invited 70 global location...
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has been revealed as emerging Europe’s best start-up ecosystem in a new report carried out by Startup Blink, a start-up mapping an research...
With no shortage of walls to paint on and a welcoming local urban art community, Bucharest has recently been the recipient of several foreign urban art interventions...
First, a classic communist joke: Why is Slaka like America? Because in America you can criticise America, and in Slaka you can criticise America too. And another: Why is...
Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Airport (or Otopeni, as it is still almost universally known) has never been one of the most agreeable places in Romania. Undersized and...
In the two decades in which I have lived, on and off, in Romania, I have become immune to the highly aggressive reaction that follows the publication of just about any...
It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, one of Bucharest’s most eye-pleasing buildings. It has never been open to the public, has never been on the tourist trail...
Since Romania first instituted a nationwide lockdown on March 17 I have left my apartment on just four occasions: thrice to shop for food, and once to collect a new...
There’s just one problem with Paul Knott’s utterly fascinating and at times hilarious look back at his colourful career as a British diplomat: it comes to an end...
