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Flower shop

Here are the Top Five shops in Bucharest regarding popularity or rather level of extension (in my opinion – please leave a comment with your own personal Top Five list or continue mine until the Top Ten):

Mini Market

5. Mom-and-Pop grocery stores
4. Pharmacies
3. Flower shops
2. Amanet (pawnshop)

And the winner is:

1. Fornetti
- our all beloved puff pastry producer.

I argue that what is the bocadillo for Spain, the sandwich for GB, the Wurstsemmel for Austria and the onigiri for Japan, that’s puff pastry and strudel for Romania! The little, cheap, very tasty and highly caloric snack for in between the meals.

Big Three: Fornetti, Amanet, Pharmacy

You can find all these different kinds of shops in amazing quantities all over the city.

The last picture is supposed to underline the above said.

Driving: On the Easter week-end, precisely on Monday, I was driving my usual way to work ( even though I didn’t go to work).

I could not believe how empty the streets were. Especially on Tunari street, where you have those worn out tram lines next to old villas and little narrow side-streets, everything seemed so different than usual. The tram passed by every 10 minutes, there were some pedestrians from time to time- but that was it. Then I imagined how it used to be not so long ago in the old neighborhoods of Bucharest, without so many cars like nowadays. I must admit I loved the atmosphere. Now I think I should not start to bash the traffic and the behavior in Bucharest-everybody does and knows.

But what amazes me is that the Minister of Tourism announced that Bucharest could be a wellness destination, and the street holes should be used as a competitive advantage for tourists. This way tourists could take a horse sledge and experience authentically street holes. Well, at least she is optimistic and tries to see things positively…

Volker Moser

Bucharest Angel