Getting the “Trump Bible” in Romania
The “God Bless The USA Bible” costs about sixty dollars. (It is only 59.99, but you can no longer buy a gumball with a penny.) But what if you want…
Cluj News and to do's for Expats and English Speakers
The “God Bless The USA Bible” costs about sixty dollars. (It is only 59.99, but you can no longer buy a gumball with a penny.) But what if you want…
Okay, so the Pharmacy Museum in Cluj was open before Valentine’s Day. But we didn’t visit until recently. Ever since 2020, the old house of George Hintz had been closed,…
All Lives Matter, an original poem for 2024:
Over most of the past three years, citrus fruits in Cluj were mainly from Spain. Your zucchini might have been from Italy. Pears could be locally grown. Carrots might be…
13 January, 2023. At 2 pm today, in a march starting from the main square in Cluj, you might have heard chanting in Romanian and English. In English, they said,…
What is a word? Well, I used four words to ask that question, right? But people who create spaced-repetition apps, and create word frequency lists, to learn languages don’t understand…
Filmmakers in Eastern and Central Europe don’t seem to want to deal with the obvious horror theme. You can find “Dracula’s” castle packed with tourists, but the real Vlad Tepes…
I bought a copy of Libertatea last Saturday and noticed something. About half the paper seemed to be dedicated to Sudoku games and things that were even less newsworthy than…
by Fatca Pop 25 September, 2023 If you can read to B2 level, you still may have trouble understanding the Cornelescu or Romanian Orthodox Bibles. Some of the words in…
Every city in the world has its scammers, con artists, crooks, or as you say in Romanian, escrocii, înșelatori, șarlatani. , In your own city, you are probably used to…