In the past few years, we have noticed changes in the designs of Romania’s major supermarkets. Kaufland, Auchan, Mega Image, Profi, Carrefour and now Lidl have all added new self-checkout lanes or…
Category: Events
What is going on and recent events in Cluj Napoca and the surrounding area.
TIFF posters feature AI attrocity
Posters promoting the Transylvania International Film Festival for 2025 depict an “audience” enjoying a screening beneath what looks like a futuristic fascist spaceship and accompanied by two robots, with Saint Michael’s church…
Night of the Museum in Cluj, 2025
Night of the Museum is coming to Cluj on Saturday, 17 May, 2025. Are any museums boycotting this year? Some are not on the list. Across Europe, museums are free, or discounted. …
Where to find umbrellas in Cluj
Umbrellas are not as widely available in Cluj as they might be in Amsterdam, but you can still find them if you know where to look. Supermarkets Kauflaud. A nice variety of…
Magic Clean now available in Cluj
Okay, so Magic Clean has been available for some time. But we had to use a whole carton of it, to test it, before we could recommend it. Small and portable Magic…
Events and Films in English in Hungarian days 2024
We just looked at the physical brochure for Hungarian Days of Cluj, 2024, and found events labelled as “lb. engleza” which we assume means “limba engleza” or in English. Three talks will…
Fruit travelling further, creating higher CO2 and nitrogen footprints
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 from Romania,…
Palestine demonstration in piata unirii
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, “Free, free…
Tomorrow is European Day without a car
22 of September is the European Day without a car. In Brussels, it was one of the most exciting days of the year. You could rollerblade across what were normally busy streets,…
Rroma film festival in Brasov
We missed the festivals in Cluj. Actually, we did see some but haven’t reported on them. Yet. Anyway, Brasov, one of Romania’s and Transilvania’s most interesting cities, is holding a film festival…