Why Love Romania

30/04/2018

Peter Hurley says he fell in love with Romania forever in 1994 when he first visited the country. He learnt to speak Romanian perfectly, he wears Romanian traditional costumes quite naturally and in 26 years of living in Romania he came to the conclusion that Romanians have extraordinary positive energy despite the many difficulties they have been facing. Peter has also persuaded his relatives from Ireland that Romania is the best choice for living one’s life, so, upon his advice, one of his sisters, a nutritionist from Dublin, spent a year and a half in the Danube Delta as a volunteer. She enjoyed her stay so much that later she returned to Romania together with her husband, this time as a tourist. https://youtu.be/ywDHSpVui8o?t=20

21/03/2018

"Everybody knows Transylvania, right? And, of course, the legend of Dracula (Vlad Țepes – the Impaler). So, these two are connected and, so to speak, I have imagined what Dracula would see in his flights in modern day Transylvania, one with winding roads, traffic and cars that have replaced the old carriages. We don’t have many highways here in Romania, but the roads that take you to and within Transylvania are wonderful for every driver or biker (and “a must” for visiting once in a lifetime, I can say). I want to document these roads from above, in all four seasons, because they will soon be forgotten, after the new highways are opened. I think they look great from above and are pretty unique. And even Dracula would envy you because he cannot drive on these roads!" by Călin Stan — Photos Copyright Călin Stan

04/09/2017

NYC finally discovered Romania

Romania is a bargain compared to other countries on the continent. It has everything you need for an affordable and impressive family trip.

05/04/2017

Beautiful Restored House in Cluj. Modern Traditional Romanian Architecture.

O casă din Cluj, de secol XIX, a fost restaurată de arhitecții de la Atelier Mass. Interiorul dezvăluie un dialog superb între trecut și prezent.

20/02/2017

Gare Centrale Bucharest - From 1883 the Orient Express connected Western Europe to the Romanian capital of Bucharest. The city did not yet have an appealing, centrally located railway station; instead the Gara de Nord (North Station) of 1872 served as a terminus.
In 1894 French architect Alexandre Marcel won a design contest for a new central railway station.His spectacular design was never realized, though. A 1911 plan by the Romanian architect Victor Stefanescu came to nothing either.
The North Station was extended step by step and modernized in the 1930s. Bucharest never got a real central station.
by Arjan den Boer 29 January 2016

10/12/2016

Bike around Transylvania with Martin

01/11/2016

SONY 4K Commercial Filmed in Abandoned Casino in Constanta, Romania, by the Black Sea.

31/10/2016

Beautiful experiment by Babbel in Berlin. Four of the greatest polyglots learning to speak Romanian in one hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTYEz4DZOuk

01/04/2016

With a cruising speed of 55mph, this wooden car is a carpentry project with a difference. Created by Romanian Peter Szabo, the vehicle took more than 4,500 hours to build over three years and cost $20,000 in hard ash wood. Nicknamed ‘Julia', the vehicle combines the retro lines and old school growl of a classic automobile with modern innovations such as tablet-controlled headlights and music. Now complete, he likes nothing better than driving the unique car around his home village - and receiving admiring waves from his neighbours. http://bit.ly/25AWldS

Videographer / director: Robert Nemeti
Producer: Crystal Chung, Nick Johnson
Editor: Jack Stevens

27/01/2016

Our friends are listening to this free online radio: http://nicecream.fm/. Do you conider they have good taste? It is probably the most popular online radio in Romania today.

26/01/2016

The only way to make a difference is to be informed.

On my last day before moving to Romania, I made a stop at my usual bakery.

25/01/2016

Victoria Flamel talking about Romania :)

In todays video I talk about the incredible country Romania and the Romanian people. I hope you learned something about Romania and the Romanians from watchi...

28/10/2015

Beautiful article LonelyPlanet. Transylvania, Best in Travel 2016.

Find out why this destination made our list of top picks for 2016.

27/08/2015

Mapping 555 Bucharest Building Projection on Bucharest Casa Poporului, biggest public building in the world
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rQMBAdHTYpQ&feature=youtu.be

19/08/2015

A great FREE PDF Guide for Bucharest ( București ) the capital city of Romania http://cityguide.travelersofbucharest.com/

Curious to discover Bucharest? Here's the greatest city guide that you can DOWNLOAD for FREE!

29/06/2015

Brașov (pronounced Bra-shov), has a population of 283,901 and is the 7th largest city in Romania. It is located almost in the centre of the country and surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains. The city provides a mix of wonderful mountain scenery in the nearby Poiana Braşov and medieval history with German influences in the old town. The city is 176 km from Bucharest.
The Braşov county is one of the most visited by tourists. Other than Braşov city and its immediate attractions, the resorts of Poiana Braşov (12 km west) and Predeal (27 km south), are also well worth visiting. Other places and tourist attractions of the county: Bran, Moeciu, Râşnov, Făgăraş, Prejmer, Zărneşti, Sâmbăta (at the foot of the Făgăraş mountains).

Probably the most important personal project to date...a short film about...my home city - Brasov. It's the least I can give back to a place I call home for ...

08/04/2015

Chifla, you know it as Croissant is invented in Bucharest around 1740

The croissant is not french or hungarian. The original ``croissant`` was made in Romania and they named it ``chifla``. To quote wikipedia: "Alan Davidson, editor of the Oxford Companion to Food states that no printed recipe for the present-day croissant appears in any French recipe book before the early 20th century; the earliest French reference to a croissant he found was among the "fantasy or luxury breads" in Payen's Des substances alimentaires, 1853." ((unsigned, undated) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Croissant

01/12/2014

Great Union Day (Romanian: Ziua Marii Uniri, also called Unification Day) occurring on December 1, is the national holiday of Romania. It commemorates the assembly of the delegates of ethnic Romanians held in Alba Iulia, which declared the Union of Transylvania with Romania.

This holiday was set after the 1989 Romanian Revolution and it marks the unification of Transylvania, but also of the provinces of Bessarabia and Bukovina with the Romanian Kingdom, in 1918.

Prior to 1948, the national holiday of Romania was set to be on May 10, which had a double meaning: it was the day on which Carol I set foot on the Romanian soil (in 1866), and it was the day on which the prince ratified the Declaration of Independence (from the Ottoman Empire) in 1877.

07/11/2014

"The film is a fully independent effort. Our intention was to show Bucharest as you don't usually see it: cool, multi-layered and hidden. This is an introductory walk in the city with your personal local friends. Walk with us! :)" by Andreea Popa and Alexandru Costin

Andreea Popa and Alexandru Costin present you a 3-minute declaration of the weird love we have for our home town of Bucharest. Discover Little Aesthete's secret…

07/11/2014

Romanian glyphs

There are five special letters in the Romanian alphabet referred to as diacritics. In the sense of diacritics as being signs added to letters to alter their pronunciation or to make distinction between words, the Romanian alphabet does not have diacritics. There are, however, five special letters in the Romanian alphabet (two of them are associated with the same sound), formed by modifying other latin letters. Strictly speaking they are not diacritics, but are generally referred to as such.1

Romanian language has 5 special letters—they are not diacritics _per se_, but are generally referred to as such: Ăă — A/a with BREVE for the sound /ə/; Ââ — A/a with CIRCUMFLEX for the sound /ɨ/; Îî — I/i with CIRCUMFLEX for the sound /ɨ/; Șș — S/s with COMMA BELOW for the sound /ʃ/; Țț — T/t with COMMA BELOW for the sound /ʦ/.

Romanian language has 5 special letters—they are not diacritics per se, but are generally referred to as such.

Ăă — A/a with BREVE for the sound /ə/;
Ââ — A/a with CIRCUMFLEX for the sound /ɨ/;
Îî — I/i with CIRCUMFLEX for the sound /ɨ/;
Șș — S/s with COMMA BELOW for the sound /ʃ/;
Țț — T/t with COMMA BELOW for the sound /ʦ/.

Although we only have 5 diacritics (Czech language has 15) we, sometimes, manage to get 3 out of 5 wrong. Most of the time we get 2 out of those 3 wrong: Ș and Ț.

15/05/2014

Salina Turda is a salt mine situated in Turda, Transylvania, Romania. According to Business Insider, Salina Turda is the most beautiful underground place in the world. Since opening in 1992 until today, Salina Turda was visited by about 2 million Romanian and foreign tourists.