mountain climbing in Baiului
Hey – a new post in a pretty long time. Hopefully I will return to a more ‘serious’ writing schedule. For today’s bite, you can read (and of course see photos) about a daytrip to Baiului mountains. After a long…
Quechua 2seconds tent – my impressions
Last weekend I first took my new tent to the seaside, in Vama Veche. I bought it one month ago from Decathlon, and with the first occasion I tried it. Fortunately for me, yet unfortunately for testing the tent, the…
Vama Veche 2009 – same old good fun
Last weekend I went to Vama Veche, for the first time this year. Although everybody thought the weather was going to be atrocious and that I was signing up for thunderstorms and rain, the weekend proved to be quite the…
Manowar – metal ballads with sound problems
Manowar – final concert of Bestfest – started the show in force. Yet not long after the start one generator exploded. Quote from Manowar : did Metallica play in Romania ? Did their generators fail ? No – why? Because…
Blogging live @ Santana
So here I am – blogging live from Santana concert! Those that follow me on twitter @andreinicoara probably know what’s happening right from Bestfest. It’s a great festival, at least compared to our small selection, and tonight a lot of…
Motorhead @ B’estfest day 2
Yesterday was a great day at B’estfest. The first 2 big names at the festival – Motorhead and Moby – and the first day of the festival proper (the day before it was day 0. If you are confused by…
B’estfest first day
One word describes the first day at B’estfest: rain. Lots of it. Expanding a bit – rain, storm, thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening…oh that’s from something else. The pouring rain was real though. Having said that, the concerts were…
blogwriter’s block
Ok, so now it’s 19 days since I last wrote on the blog. I have a few hundred photos waiting to be processed and uploaded, still a lot to write about the trip to Paris, a few interesting happenings in…
a walk in Versailles garden – part deux
As promised, this is part two of the Versailles day trip. The gardens of the castle provided huge photo opportunities. I hope you enjoy this album. And remember: there are even more photos coming soon!
Versailles – visiting the gardens
In the established tradition (he he) this is another post and photo gallery put online with a pretty big delay. I suppose people got used to seeing my travel posts long after returning home. I hope people will not complain…
Orange – nou magazin online si concurs de feedback
Ieri a fost lansat noul magazin online Orange. Pe langa cateva functionalitati noi si un design cred eu reusit, a fost lansat si un “challenge” pentru oricine vrea sa faca o sugestie, sa atraga atentia asupra unui bug sau a…
back from Paris, and first week at work
As most of you already know my short holiday to Paris came to an end on last Sunday. Although now I am back to Romania, you should still expect to receive short bits on Paris and most importantly pictures from…
flight offer: Finnair to China for less than 400 euro
Found a pretty good offer to fly to China (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong) from Finnair for 1655 ron, which translates to 396 euro. The offer is a special deal, so it is available only to June 3rd. The biggest problem…
the market in La Bastille and skating in Paris
Update: long-awaited gallery is here! In last post I made some mentions about the open-air market in “place de la Bastille”. Unfortunately I do not think that I had any picture showing this market. This is going to change now.…
WiFi blues
At this moment I have 2 posts ready to publish. They just await some picture – after all this is mostly a photo blog. Right now I am in Paris, trying to upload the pictures with Picasa, from the WiFi…
photos from third day in Paris
Yesterday (Sunday) was a pretty interesting day in terms of visiting. I arrived at Centre George Pompidou but discovered that the interesting exhibition was closed. Then Hotel de Ville proved also closed. Brancusi expo (near Pompidou) opened at 2pm. So,…
third day in Paris – Dacias, Red Cross skating and about museums in weekend
How time flies. I feel like I just arrived in Paris, yet the third day came to an and. Probably today I walked the most, although interestingly enough at 10pm I was still looking for new places to visit. Paris…
Paris, mon amour
Today was the second day in Paris. I know I should have written about my arrival here, but a lot of factors contributed to the complete blog silence. Without entering into too many details, let’s say that tonight’s post will…
a visit to the Forbidden City
This is the second post in the series about sights in China which I did not have the time to write about when I was still in there. The first post was Along the Great Wall – a description of…
along the Great Wall
This post was long overdue, always in the making and always left for “another time”. Well, what with the weekend around the office corner I finally found the time to write about one of the “must-do” visits in China: a…