Paul Dumitru

Envy was creeping inside of me just as I was walking down the paved streets of the Bratislava’s old town. You know why? Because I was thinking that Bucharest, my hometown, could have come all this way, too. Yet it didn’t. The Slovak Republic became independent after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, in 1993, not long […]

Tip: explore the drawing at the top of the post (or click here to open it) to see what the Police and the insurance company advise you to do in order to avoid being a victim of theft. Parents were always right when they said that you should never talk to strangers! In short: because then they use […]

If social media was a person living in Bucharest, there has been created an event where she could go on stage, in the highlights, so that people could gather around and stare at her unique combination of professional, colloquial and somewhat fashionable glare. This was called the “Social Media Summit”, and the 2016 edition took […]

There is unrest in the European Union, as its unity and values shiver in the face of recent challenges. Some people go so far that they even doubt the EU will endure. One of the things that scorched the very heart of the European Union is the imminent EURO zone crisis. The so called Grexit has been hardly avoided this […]

On a sunny-rainy shore at the Baltic Sea, where coldness and snow should cover the land at this time of year – if it wasn’t for the so-called global warming, there is a windy-yet-warm city with red brick buildings, where people still populate lively terraces invigorated by heaters. Here, at night, you can walk the land and, from a […]

Beyond the salty blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, not far from Greece and pretty close to Turkey and Syria, lies the isle of Cyprus. One can journey along the roads that go amid arid areas, or get lost in cities with rich vegetation and people staying up on the streets and pubs until late […]

*psss! check the videos at the end of the article! In the salty air of a rainy summer morning of July, I put my flip-flops on and quickly descended the spiral stairs of the 2 floor mansion not far from the Black Sea shore, went past the 6 sleeping dogs and entered the training room – which […]

In the second half of September 2014, in a land where the soft warm winds of autumn make the palm trees warble and humid air is filled with the strong smell of olives, summer seems to never really end. Even the daylight stretch far into the evening, splashing red and purple on the western sky. Right at this very moment, […]