The 2020 Romanian Legislative Elections are now over and the results are truly shocking in my opinion. A far right nationalist party managed to mess up all predictions and plans, getting a record number of votes from the Romanians. I will share my subjective opinions on the matter, as well as the results of the … Read more
Just like most of the world out there, Romania isn’t doing that well when it comes to the number of new Coronavirus cases reported daily. With new measures in place and a few months since my previous Covid-19 update, I decided it’s time for a new article. For the very few of you who are … Read more
It’s been a bit over three weeks since Romania relaxed most restrictions regarding the coronavirus pandemic. The country is in a state of alert since May 15th, and every two weeks more and more restrictions are lifted. But nobody seems to care about them anymore. The day prior to Romania switching to a more relaxed … Read more
UPDATE: It appears that the news story that I based this article on – a news bit from HotNews, one of the largest and most trusted press agencies in Romania, which quoted a TV station which quoted the Bulgarian media – was actually wrong. It seems that EU big shot Manfred Weber said something like … Read more
Tomorrow is a big day for my family! Tomorrow, we’re jumping on a train that will take us to Arad (it’s a 5 hour trip), spend the night there and then get on another train to Budapest. Yes, it sounds just like the beginning of our last year’s adventure in Europe (wrote about it here, … Read more
2016 is right around the corner and the Christmas spirit – together with the joy of welcoming a new year – is here and you can feel it everywhere. 2015 was a good year for this blog as I was able to share with you some details about a family that actually made the move … Read more
You’ve probably heard already everything about the tragedy that struck Romania the Friday before Halloween. It was a truly horrible and unbelievable moment: a well known club in Bucharest, named Colectiv, burned down during a band’s album launch party. Everything happened extremely fast inside – some fireworks that were used on stage ignited the soundproofing … Read more
Welcome to the last part of our amazing vacation that we had around Europe this year: we visited 9 cities in 30 days and you can check out our impressions as follows: Budapest and Vienna, Munchen, Verona & Trieste, Pula & Rijeka and finally, today, our last leg of the trip: Zagreb and Belgrade. Even … Read more
It’s time for part 3 of 4 in the mini-series that covers our Vacation this year around Europe. After we did enjoy some great time in Germany and Italy, it was time for Croatia to be checked off the list of countries that we have visited – and we went for Pula & Rijeka (alongside … Read more
After checking out Budapesta and Vienna in the previous article, it’s time to move forward with our 30 days vacation around Europe and our next stops were Munchen, Verona and Trieste. It was actually Munchen that started our entire vacation since a good friend of my wife – a mother she met online – was … Read more