My Bucharest – where to eat, party and discover the city, recommended by a local

  One thing I have noticed (at myself and at others as well) is that we tend to overlook the places we live in and treat them as a given, being too busy with the everyday life and not bothering to walk around, discover hidden gems or just look at the buildings we are passing …

Making travel decisions

Growing up I didn't have the possibility to travel, financially speaking. Being from Romania and having to grow up in the early 1990s in a country barely recovering after the communist era, in a normal family, we did not afford much. The only travel we made was, once or twice per year at the Black …

Jambo Zanzibar! (Part I – what you want to know before visiting Zanzibar)

"Jambo!" - This is the first thing you hear when you get to the lovely island of Zanzibar, and you don't stop hearing it throughout your stay here. And that is because it actually means "Hello!" and people in Zanzibar (and Tanzania overall) are very friendly and like talking with tourists and making you feel …