The Mayor's brother has been shot

The Mayor's brother is now at the Floreasca Hospital.

Bucharest will be an "european capital"

Romania will sign in the 25th of April the treatise of aderation will be signed.
FOr more information, visit: http://beautifulromania.blogspot.com/2005/04/european-parliament-said-yes-to.html

Concert of "Ad hoc" band

Speaking about the night life in Bucharest...there are many clubs and pubs where you can spend a nice evening with your friends. For example, the last Saturday I have been with my friends in a pub where we enjoyed a lot. It was a nice band playing good music and we had a lot of fun!

Concert in the Revolution Square

On Saturday, the 9th of April, in the evening, we assisted to a really nice concert held in the Revolution Square in Bucharest. The concert gathered together many romanian bands and singers, like Nicola, Holograf, Directia 5, Iris, Pro Consul, etc. My impression were that it was a nice concert and that the people had a lot of fun!

Concert of The Radio Orchestra

Yesterday, the 8th of April, took place in Bucharest at the Radio Hall a concert in memory of the Pope. In the first part of the concert they played Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg and Richard Strauss and in the second part was Mozart's Requiem. There is a long time since I didn't see so many people at the Radio Orchestra!

Adriean Videanu was invested yesterday

The new mayor of the capital, Adriean Videanu was invested in his official function yesterday. Asked if he noticed the absence of the fifth sector mayor, Marian Vanghelie, he said that the Mayor was invited, but he is not general chancellor. Videanu walked the distance from Odeon Theatre, where the ceremony took place, to the City Hall.

The Village Museum

If you are in Bucharest and you would like to spend a nice day like in old romanian times, if you want to see how the people used to live at the village, which were their costoms and traditions, you should definately go to visit The Village Museum. If you have no time to go to visit it but still would like to know a few things about it, you could visit their web page: http://www.cimec.ro/Muzee/Muzsat/articol/index_eng.htm

Just in order to show you a bit of the beautifulness of The Village Museum, I show you a couple of pictures. Enjoy it!

Possible penal research on Marian Vanghelie

It seemes that Marian Vanghelie didn't have the licence to use in his campaign a few songs. In order to use these songs, he would have had to have the licence from three institutions of Romania. On the megaphones of the cars that were inviting the citizens to vote him, you could hear "The Final Countdown" (Europe) and "Conquest of Paradise" (Vanghelis).

This information was picked from http://www.expres.ro/politica/?news_id=183315

Univeristy of Bucharest

University of Bucharest can be considered the most prestigious Rumanian University with its 140 of tradition. If you are a young Rumanian who has just finished the Highschool and you are willing to attend further education, university of Bucharest it's just the proper place. For further information, you can visit:

http://www.unibuc.ro/en/home

Marian Vanghelie requires the resignations of two ex-ministers

Upset because of the lost elections, Marian Vanghelie, the candidate of PSD, requires the resignations of two ex-ministers from PSD: Gabriel Oprea and Eugen Bejenariu. At the Press Conference after the elections he said that he will propose to Bucharest Organization of PSD to do an analysis regarding the organization of the elections and those who are guilty of the bad organizing of the elections are to be punished.

The most expensive elections

The elections for the Bucharest Mayor seemed to had been the most expensive elections in the history of Bucharest. As we can read in the newspapers, it seems that one vote costed 3 euro in the conditions where the Government allocated 50 milliards lei for the organizing of local elections and only 430 thousands of citizens from Bucharest went to vote. Reading the statistics, it seemed that for the general elections in December 2004, a citizen paid 1 euro for each round, in the conditions where the elections where for the President and for the two Chambers of the Parliament. The expensive costs of the elections for Bucharest Mayor came from the fact that they were many absent people if we consider that the Capital has about 2 millions of people. The truth is that the elections were shadowed by other events, like the death of the Pope and the disparition of the three journalists in Iraq.

The gala of Uniter Prizes (XIIIth Edition)

The gala took place yesterday, the 4th of April at the National Theatre "Ion Luca Caragiale", Bucharest. The prizes were given for: debut, the best scenography, the best actress in a leading role, the best actor, etc. For more information you can visit: http://www.onlinegallery.ro/premii_uniter2005.html




In the picture above you can see the National Theatre "Ioan Luca Caragiale" - Bucharest

Bucharest's Malls

If you want to go to a place where you can find all kind of things and all kind of people, Mall is a good place to go, although it's always crowded. The good thing is that now it is not only one Mall in Bucharest, there is a new one built in Militari and onother one on the way to Otopeni. I am sure that Bucharest people feel happy about it, as they have a choice now. It's obviously that it's a life style for them to go and spend their time and money there.

There are lots of things that you can do: you can whatch a film or doing your shopings or have a coffee, etc.

National Trade of Turism at ROMEXPO Bucharest

Between 7.04.2005 -10.04.2005, we will assist at the Trade Show of Turism, organised by ROMEXPO S.A in colaboration with ANAT, ANTREC, FIHR, FPTR, OPTBR and Ministry of Transport, Construction and Tourism.

Adriean Videanu won the elections for Bucharest Mayor

As predicted, Adriean Videanu won the elections for Bucharest Mayor. It is no great surprise, as I have already mention, he had all the chances to win. He had in the end 53% of the entire available votes. In the second position was Marian Vanghelie and on the third position Cristian Popescu known for the voters as "Piedone".

Who is going to be the new Mayor of Bucharest?

Today we'll find out who is going to be the new Mayor of Bucharest. After the counting of 33% of the votes, Adriean Videanu(PD) seemed to have 47% from the entire amount of votes and Marian Vanghelie(PSD) 36%. If none of them will obtain 50% plus 1 from all the votes, there is going to be a second round, the next Sunday.. It is important to mention that only 1/5 from the citizens of Bucharest went to vote. This is the lowest presence to vote from the last 15 years. In the 4th Sector, the presence was of 24%, in the 3rd Sector the presence to vote was of 18% and the medium for the entire Bucharest was of about 20%.

Palace of The Parliament

The Palace of the Parliament is one of the biggerst buildings in the World. The second in size, after the Pentagon building. If you would like to find out more about it, just visit the following page: http://diasan.vsat.ro/pls/dic/cd.show?cpage=palat2



Perhaps a better view is from the Izvor Bridge at day time:

Eating in Bucharest

I ate today to a really nice restaurant. It's called La Rambla and it's in the center of Bucharest. You can easily find it on the Vulturilor street, next to the Unirii Boulevard. If you are in Bucharest, this is for sure a nice place to eat.