Spring doesn't arrive quietly in Bucharest. It comes with colourful stalls, the scent of gingerbread, red-and-white strings, and artisans who have poured their hearts into every handmade piece. Whether you're looking for a traditional mărțișor crafted from wool and ceramic, a designer jewellery piec... Read more
On May 1, 1886, around 90,000 people took to the streets of Chicago. It wasn't a parade — it was a strike. They were demanding a reduction of the working day from ten or sixteen hours to eight, and the mood was angry rather than festive. The days that followed brought deaths, arrests, and a trial th... Read more
Infertility affects between 10 and 15% of couples of reproductive age in Romania — a figure that puts the real scale of the problem into perspective. And while an IVF procedure was until recently considered a financial luxury accessible only to some, 2026 brings a different picture: three distinct f... Read more
If you have a pet and you want to spend a few days in Bucharest — whether you’re coming from another part of the country, or you’re an expat or tourist — you do have options. But here’s the reality from the start: not every hotel that labels itself “pet-friendly” on Booking.com truly is. Some accept... Read more
March is an awkward month for market shopping. Winter is over, summer hasn't arrived, and the stalls are half-empty and half-filled with imported produce or vegetables grown in heated greenhouses. If you know what to look for, you'll find good things. If you don't, you'll pay serious money for taste... Read more
This article is strictly informational. Its purpose is to calmly and clearly answer questions that more and more Bucharest residents are legitimately asking. It is not meant to cause alarm, but to provide a practical guide based on publicly available data as of 2026.The topic of civil protection she... Read more
Bucharest in 1925 is a city that wants to forget the First World War as quickly as possible and become something greater than it has been — the streets are starting to look European, the cafés along Calea Victoriei fill with good society, and Greater Romania, freshly constituted in 1918, adds thousa... Read more
Spring brings, for tens of thousands of families in Bucharest, one of the first major decisions of parenthood: where will my child go to school? It is a decision made under time pressure, with incomplete information, in the middle of heated debates in parent groups, and with the nagging feeling that... Read more
On Calea Victoriei, the queue for ice cream is 170 years old. Around 1850, the street still went by the name Podul Mogoșoaiei, and the most sought-after spot in the city was a confectionery run by an Italian — Giovanni Flore, with his shop on the ground floor of the Hugues Hotel, in Piața Teatrului,... Read more
There is a brief window every year when Bucharest shows itself at its best. December arrives with its artificial lights, August with its characteristic emptiness and exhaustion, and May brings something else entirely — balanced temperatures and terraces that fill up naturally, without the strain of... Read more