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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]