At Cluj’s UBB, you can study more languages than just Romanian. We tried their summer school, and were mostly satisfied. The courses at the Middle East center are a little out of…
Author: Fatca Pop
Fatca Pop is a dreamer, adventurer, cook, and blogger. Fatca was a hairdresser, company secretary, and teacher.
American energy drinks have undeclared ingredients
Did you think you were safe because you avoided Nestle products? Well, the Swiss food giant is not the only one caught selling contaminated products. American companies are being caught all the…
Maidan plays in Cluj
Over the next few weeks, there will be Maiden plays in Cluj. “Theatru in centrul Clujului.” These plays will feature an actor that you might know from the Romanian Theatre, and a…
Fruit’s origin false: not greek, but Egyptian
Fruit that pretended to be imported from Greece was actually imported from Egypt. These fruit were sold in many supermarkets in Romania, including hypermarkets. Some had been treated with chemicals, past the…
Mircea Bravo’s dad protests against 8 hour work day
The actor who played the father of the Mircea Bravo character in Nunta pe Bani joined a protest, reported the Monitorul newspaper. (Monitorul means “the monitor, so it feels redundant to call…
Stray dogs: fact of myth?
There was apparently a rumor that Romania was filled with stray dogs. Then, that was changed. But has it changed back? According to Dog Desk animal action there are 900 million dogs worldwide. …
Irregular plurals in English
We love watching foreign influencers who tell us about life in Romania (or Romanians who tell us life in their country.) Well, not all of them. Immigrant expats are more interesting than…
Wonderland Family Fest leads to exodus from Romania
Okay, maybe the title is a bit of an exaggeration. I am sure not everyone who is leaving Romania is doing it to get away from the Wonderland family fest. In fact,…
Romania’s pollution is getting worse, and so is obesity
When we read the weather reports, noticed that the air quality in Cluj-Napoca was going down. Then we read a blog for a Romanian travel expert who confirmed our fears. For obesity,…
The genius system of Romanian queueing
If you immigrated to Cluj in the past couple of years, you might be disappointed that the immigration service is in a cold and wet garage, and that you wait outside the…