You sit down at a table in some obscure restaurant, tucked away in the heart of the city, maybe on a cobbled street that promises a detour into Little Paris, and you open the menu. The paper is thick, the fonts are calligraphic, and your expectations rise in direct proportion to the prices. You flip... Read more
If you stand long enough at an intersection on Calea Victoriei and close your eyes, the city begins to speak to you in a language you think you know, even though you only understand half of it. Bucharest has a talent for visual incoherence: Stalinist apartment blocks leaning wearily against Neo-Roma... Read more
You wake up on a Saturday morning with the sun cautiously filtering through your apartment curtains, and you feel it. The familiar, insistent stare. You sense it before you see it. The fixed, hypnotic gaze of your best friend, patiently waiting for the sacred ritual of the walk. You grab the leash—t... Read more