A Political Refugee From The Global Village

‎"Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual." Angela Carter Bucharest is a blow...

I wasted eight minutes finding it in google. There are no fields of amaranth on this side of the grave : there are no voices, O Rhodop...

The age of collectivism was formed by individuals: Lenin, Hitler, Einstein, Freud. The age of individualism is dominated by mediocrities. A...

I doubt if any Arab country is ready for representative government or democracy in the true sense. I hope I am wrong. Of course I feel full ...

Hot Bucharest Saturday morning in July. 11.30 Geo called and suggests I drive with him to Szeged in Hungary to catch the Szeged Festival ret...

An English friend of mine (lonely in Serbia?) sent me this response which made a great impression on him to a Guardian article by Simon Jen...

Things I miss about England Nothing really except my mother's cooking and pantomimes at the Players' Theatre; neither still exist...

Eugen Ionescu: Religion in Romania means something entirely different from what it means in Catholic or Protestant countries.

The Frankfurt School of Marxism was a real school. It was really a building in Frankfurt and received gas bills. It was a think-tank set up...

What are the best five things about Bucharest someone asked and found he could only think of four. He included decent primary schools (soun...

The first record of Bucharest is a document dated 1459 six years after Constantinople fell signed by Prince Vlad III - Vlad the Impaler!...

I hate the new Lipscani including the man dressed as Charlie Chaplin. I liked it when it was a slum. Now every time I set foot in Strada Lip...

I like manele. Played from tinny transistors in villages. The 'Romania profunda'. Or by my gypsy next door neighbours who always pla...

"One travels to think." Mircea Eliade.   "One travels for architecture and food and America has neither." A.J.P. Tay...

Bucarest has been described as a town of one street, one church, and one idea. The aphorism is to some extent justified, for the Calea Victo...

From: A journey through the Crimea to Constantinople in a series of letters By Elizabeth, Lady Craven (1789). Lady Craven the friend of J...

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http://www.helium.com/items/1454003-bucharest-tourism Bucharest pretty innocent of tourism for so long is now alas a tourist destination. Th...