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Cheapskate Chronicles: Free Walking Tours in Europe
Blog: Travel Adventures of Newman - 9 November 2011
Imagine arriving at the latest European city on your itinerary, checking into your hotel or hostel, and feeling somewhat disoriented by your new surroundings. How then to regain your bearings?
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Finding More than Dracula in Romania
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 23 August 2011
As I wandered around Sighisoara, searching for coffins, bats, vampires and human blood, I realized Romania wasn’t going to give me what I wanted – lots of cheesy Dracula tourism. I had been to Bran, Transylvania, and Bucharest and so far had encountered nothing about vampires. It was odd. The Romanians just haven’t decided to [...]
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Photo Essay: Palace of Parliament, Palace of the People
Blog: GoBackpacking - 18 November 2010
The tour that I took lasted 2.5 hours, and I only saw 7% of the entire palace.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Scenes from Herastrau Park
Blog: GoBackpacking - 16 November 2010
The following is a guest post by Karl Barth, who recently returned from his first international trip to Romania! If you have a travel story you want to share on Go Backpacking, please read our submission guidelines. The city of Bucharest…… where to begin? I would describe it as the all of the elegance and [...]---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Photo Essay: Eastern Orthodox Churches
Blog: GoBackpacking - 11 November 2010
Many parts of Romania contain incredibly ornate Eastern Orthodox Churches.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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A Taste of Life in Romania
Blog: GoBackpacking - 9 November 2010
People who never met me before would take me into the their homes.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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First Impressions of Bucharest, Romania
Blog: GoBackpacking - 2 November 2010
In Bucharest, I was immediately struck by the stark contrast in architectural styles.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Bucharest
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 13 August 2010
Bucharest – July 23rd, 2010. At the grand old time of 1:50am a flight departs London Luton with my self on board. My last departure from London I would assume. Well for the next few years at least. After 20+ months living and travelling from London its a bit sad but its always good to [...]
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Why Bucharest was known as “Little Paris”
Blog: PocketCultures - 5 July 2010
For a city that last year celebrated its 550th year of existence, Bucharest still looks in good shape! And has a lot to offer both to its inhabitants and visitors. If I had to recommend someone with little spare time what to visit in Bucharest to feel the “flavour” of the city, these are my favourite places, with beautiful architecture, which reminds us that it was once called “Little Paris” : The City Centre
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Music & Traditions in Cismigiu Park
Blog: PocketCultures - 25 June 2010
**add alt labels** Last weekend Bucharest people were invited to take part in the 4th edition of “Music and Traditions in Cismigiu” festival. It’s a festival which attracts more and more people every year. Full of colour, with lots of village artisans presenting their handmade items, traditional music and dances performed by well-known folk music singers, Romanian, minorities and international folk dancers.
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Turn 50 on Earth Day
Blog: PocketCultures - 24 April 2010
40 years ago, an American senator, Gaylord Nelson, founded Earth Day as an attempt to raise the concern on environmental issues. In other words, to make us all more aware of the fact that we only have one Mother Planet and not more. On April 22nd 1970, Earth Day was celebrated for the first time, in America, and in the 90’s, this movement managed to mobilize 200 million people in 141 countries.
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The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 25 January 2010
Last month commemorated the 20 year anniversary of the televised kangaroo trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu on December 25, 1989… Merry Christmas! This was also my first winter back in Romania since leaving the country only a couple of weeks after that fateful day. Upon my return I was expecting to see [...]
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Woe is me
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 26 September 2009
I think I’m going to stay 2 nights extra than planned here and then head to Istanbul on Tuesday night rather than Sunday. The main reason being is that I’m ruddy knackered and need somewhere nice to recuperate and this place fits the bill. Last night I went to bed at 1 but didn’t get [...]
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Dan Petrescu
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 25 September 2009
Right, I’m just off to the train station to make my way to Veliko Tarnovo. While walking there I went past a large garden gate and was taken aback by a huge bang like a sledge hammer bashing into it, followed by an almighty roar and a large paw protruding under it. I had a [...]
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Dan’s today in buggery
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 24 September 2009
Actually I didn’t manage to listen to the match on my phone last night, I forgot that because of contractual issues the BBC pull the match from their online feed, bugger. So it was the Sky Sports minute by minute coverage for me, of course in the state I was in I fell asleep within [...]
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Dead Dan walking
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 23 September 2009
After yesterday’s shenanigans I’m exhausted, understandably. So I’ve nothing on the agenda really today. I’ve booked my hostel for Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria (I’ve decided to miss out Varna to save time) and I’m just about to go and try and sort a train ticket for it and then get some food supplies in. Other [...]
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The unusual customs of others
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 22 September 2009
After yesterday’s wastefulness, when I awoke from my deep slumber today at 08:00 (with the gentle persuasion of Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lover’s ‘Morning of our Lives’ as an alarm) I was ill prepared for getting the bus to Bucharest at 10:00 am. This hostel is pretty good but it’s a little bit out [...]
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Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 19 August 2009
In a previous post, I mentioned that if you visit Romania, you should definitely reserve enough time to get out of Bucharest and visit the “real” Romania, in the country and smaller cities, towns, and villages. Romania has a long peasant and farming history – in fact, in the early to mid-1900s, it was known [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Noaptea Albă in Bucharest
Blog: Atlas Parasite - 23 July 2009
Bucharest is a city with a lot of history, a city that has been through a lot over the centuries. Known as “The Little Paris of the East” during the interwar period due to its architecture and intellectual elite, Bucharest suffered greatly during the Communist regime, in terms of its appearance as well as in [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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