A different kind of Bucharest Life

My regular reader (Mrs Trellis from North Wales) will no doubt recall that for many years I ran a modestly successful blog, the now long defunct Bucharest Life. On its pages I would comment about life in Bucharest (or Romania in general), discuss the country’s politics, culture, sport, and post incriminating photos of badly parked cars and Elena Udrea.

I closed the blog at the end of 2016 because I thought I had reached the stage where I had nothing left to say about the Romanian capital, my home by then (on and off) for almost two decades. It had begun to feel as though I was writing the same post over and over again, albeit with the words in a different order.

What’s more, while it was popular enough to cost a fair chunk of money to keep going in hosting fees and such like, it wasn’t popular enough to monetise. I was having to put my hand in my pocket each month to keep it online.

A decade on, I’ve got the itch, and platforms such as this (I am using Lovable) make it easier and cheaper to publish than ever before. What’s more, Bucharest has changed, Romania has changed, I’ve changed; maybe I do have something new to say about the place.

So this is very much not a formal reboot of Bucharest Life. I no longer even own the domain (I let it expire a few years ago). The archives are also gone; both the words (not really bothered) and (somewhat annoyingly) the pictures.

Although I probably will write the odd old school Bucharest Life-style article (because I can’t help myself), that’s not the content I am (primarily) here to publish; I intend to be more constructive this time around. We'll see how long it lasts.