I get to my room around midnight, tired and hungry. I throw my backpack in a corner, get back on the street and look for the first street food stall. It was just around the corner. I order a soup and some fried noodles with chicken and vegetables. A few minutes later, I take the first bite. I got simply amazed. The street food in Vietnam is delicious! I like street food, but there’s street food and vietnamese street food ...
When you travel, you expand your horizons. When you travel more, you expand your horizons even more and you feel smaller and smaller. When I was little, living in a small village in Romania, I thought the world is my backyard. My friends were my parents, grand parents, grand-grand parents, uncles and cousins. I used to spend my time doing mostly the same things every day, moving around no more than a square mile. When y ...
I think that time is the most valuable asset we got. We’re always in a rush and we complain that we don’t have time for ourselves. Actually, we have other priorities. Like work, making money, different activities more or less important. We live in a busy world. We are always busy. But are we for real? We spend a lot of time in front on some screens. Lots of them. We spend a lot of time commuting. We also spend a lot of tim ...
The light is different, streets are less crowded and driving around London is always a pleasure. My favourite days for road trips in and around London are 24th of December and 1st of January. The city is like a film set. No one on the streets, nobody that rushes somewhere, just you and this beautiful city. You can get from point A to B 2 or 3 times faster, you can actually observe different architectural details, ...
Before moving to London, when I was a tourist, I had a list of points of interest for every single trip in this city. Most of the times, the list was so long, that I never had the chance to tick even half of the items on the list. Now, being a resident in this city, I have 3 favourite places that I always recommend to friends to try: Byron, where you can enjoy one of the best burgers in London, Alexandra Pal ...
First, there were british people. Then africans came over. And then jews. And then indians, sri lankas, jamaicans, chinese, arabs, turks, greeks and eastern europeans. Now, we live together in this colorful city based on immigrants. And that’s in London only. Think how many big cities or countries, countries that now rule the world, were built by immigrants. Just think what could have happened to those countries ...
London starts to be my second home. Actually, think I like this city more than my hometown. Every time I have the chance to leave Bucharest, London is my first choice that comes into my mind. After wall, It doesn’t matter where home is, it matters more where you feel like home. For me, London means home, even if it’s not home… yet.
I think everyone of us must go to Auschwitz at least once on their lifetime. Not because it’s an impressive place to visit, not because there are a lot of activities to do there, but because we have to learn about the past, so we won’t do the same mistakes in the future. It took me just a few hours exploring the concentration camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Jewish Museum in Krakow to appreciate more ...
I live in Rotherhithe, a nice area, 15 minutes far from Tower Bridge, just opposite Canary Wharf. It’s a quiet area, clean, civilised. Not bad for a start. I just found out that there’s a small issue, though. Not too far from my house, by Doubletree by Hilton hotel, a former Pub was claimed by a bunch of hipsters that have only one job: to smoke all the weed in London. I have no issues with them. I love hipsters. Plus, they didn’t distract an ...
Today was a nice day. I met 2 elderly Britons who were planning a vacation this summer in Transylvania. They said they were eager to see our villages, mountains and brown bears. Yes, we’ve got brown bears in Romania. I don’t know if the fact that Prince Charles bought his properties at Viscri made Romania interesting, or for some other reason, but it seems that the British interest in Romanian tourism has increased a lot. Many times when I ...
