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 being mandatory on public transport, in shops and all indoor public spaces, the...
Tag - Postcards
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...
You need to do it on your own. I don’t have my passport with me so I won’t be able to cross the border. Good luck! Those were the parting words – said in Polish...
Mexico ‘86 says the blue T-shirt I am putting on. I am not a huge football fan – I know the World Cup ended about a month ago with Argentina beating West Germany...
The famous author Virginia Woolf once proclaimed that everyone needs a room of their own. I’d like to humbly add, everyone needs a yard of their own too. It’s precisely...
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...
In the early 2000s, the dormant genre of post-punk experienced a period of revival and reintroduction into the musical mainstream, taking new-found inspiration from...
News last month that Bulgaria had met the European Commission’s criteria for the lifting of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) and – implicitly...
“There is a bus stops on the square next to an oak tree close to the port,” I am told when I try to find out how to get to my apartment in Sarandë, a resort on the...
Can you sit there, in the next row? I am here with my family. With those words, a Reese Witherspoon wannabe lookalike asks me to make room for her as she takes off her...
I had high expectations ahead of my first ever visit to Prague, during the last week of August, as part of a summer school organised by the International Organisation...
Hungary’s Sziget, the fifth biggest music festival in the world, celebrated its 27th year between August 7 and 13, attracting more than half a million visitors. Besides...
