One of team traveled through the new look Henry Coanda airport at Otopeni recently. The international section of airport is transformed once you get past security and passport control, although getting to this point is still a challenge. The manager / supervisor that decided that two check in desks area adequate for a full flight, including one willing but...

The taxi drivers of Bucharest have a mixed reputation. Some of them are honest, friendly and on some occasions polite to the point of being courteous. There are, however, a few of those famous bad apples that spoil it for everyone. These less honest taxi drivers can be found at major traffic areas such as airports and railway stations. The standard rate per...

Ferrari of Bucharest is an “in your face” storefront highly visible to everyone going in and out of Bucharest, Romania. The large glass front Ferrari building on your way to Bucharest’s Otopeni airport is surely a proper display for Ferrari’s take on “automotive art”. When this showroom first opened its doors a few years back,...

I have heard from my wife and many other people over and over the “horror” stories of what may and sometimes does transpire regarding males vs. females on public transportation in Bucharest. On a local news program (a subsidiary of PRO TV) there was a spot on the growing dangers of “attractive” females taking the bus. Why? Apparently some...

Oh my gosh.. the ash cloud will kill us all!!!! Run for the hills!!! Just not the hills with holes in the top… Now that the ash cloud from Volcano Esldjkghskdjfbgkjh is looming above Europe, some 20,000 feet in the air and about 10,000 Km long this “ash” cloud supposedly has a planned course… as most clouds do… or not… of...