Did you hear the adverts for Gradina Botanica by the bus stop? It spoke of experiencing “Linisterea primarii”, the peace of spring. Yesterday, the Botanical Garden surveyed its clients about what they…
Category: opinion
Cluj and Tallinn
Romania recently claimed the world’s fastest Internet speeds. Estonia also likes to see itself on the forefront of tech. Cluj is the tech hub for Romania, making house prices unreachable. There was…
CTP Cluj, one of the easiest bus payments in Europe.
In the old days, if you wanted to buy a ticket on a bus, you paid the driver. Or, you bought a ticket at a bus stop and validated it. Then technology…
Twitter x and Tiktok Is the media the message?
Ah! Sounds like a title written by an academic stiff! Too long for a TikTok. If you are an expat in Romania, your “informed” relatives probably bring up certain personalities. We can’t…
Happy Christmas from Hey Cluj
Christmas was yesterday. We saw some sad people, happy people, dog walking people, and not many snow people on our walks the past couple of days. What are some Christmas traditions? Singing…
Happy Rusali (pentecost)
Sunday was Rusalii. Monday is also a holy day in the Orthodox calendar. What is Rusali? Pentecost? Whitsun? Traditionally, the fiftieth day after Easter, the Holy Ghost is said to have descended…
Review: Voyo
We previously wrote about TV streaming you can get in Romania. Well, I am not sure Voyo was tried. Voyo has some great content. There is a documentary on Romania’s football team,…
Should banking be a human right?
You might have read on Cluj.xyz that Banca Transilvania customers had a little trouble with their accounts. This was annoying, but it doesn’t begin to deal with the problems that many British,…
The basil is back and the garlic is blooming
The herbs are out, we can see alliums (garlics), basils, and sages at the Botanical Gardens in Cluj. That’s right, basils. There are many varieties of basil, from cinammon basil to Thai…
Hong kong carnivores?
Someone who never went to Hong Kong told me that I should eat more meat because people in Hong Kong do that. Perhaps I should also learn Cantonese, which might help with…