“Chase the Sun” is a cross country run organized by students at Cluj’s technical university (UTCN). Advertised in Romanian as “Crosul Universitati Tehnice,” the run is nine miles long and stars at…
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Expat-owned bakery called “cult” on social media
A Youtube video with nearly ten thousand views, which seems to reference other videos from instagram or bytedance, is calling a local bakery a “Cult.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGGAgRSUq5E The title of the video is “Cluj…
Things to do on Halloween in Cluj
Go to the movies Sure, you can go to the cinema any day, but on Halloween you can see films at Cinema City for less than 20 lei. Films in English include…
Romanian businesses will be required to published salary data
I received an email “Salariile devin publice din 2026.” So, why the longer title in English? Well, the email was kind of clickbait. At first, I thought we were entering a Finnish…
What Romania can learn from Mississippi
Mississippi has traditionally rabked last in literacy in the USA. Perhaps that’s because the state name is so hard to spell (even if it only takes a second to say), and their…
NFL season starts tommorow, on Voyo
Do you have a streaming service in Romania? The best for sports is normally Digi. But perhaps you don’t use Digi, or you had problems with it, so you just want a…
Travel disruptions to Britain or France?
If you are planning to go to Britain in the next couple of weeks, prepare for possible disruptions. You might have heard of protests in London planned for September 13th. Well, allegedly,…
Are international students being sold fake promises?
With changing demographics, a lot of Universities are facing falling numbers. And private organizations are partnering with universities. When it becomes about the money, sometimes even an educational institution will prioritise quantity…
UBV (not UBB) recruiting students
If you stood by the bus stops in Cluj Napoca recently, you might have noticed two things. One, is that despite the no smoking signs, tobacco is still on sale right by…
helen Keller’s letter to Cluj
Letters to Kolozsvar Before Cluj was Cluj, it went by other names. When Hellen Keller was alive, the town was widely known as Kolozsvar. Keller was very popular here, and she communicated…