17th April 2013
Last week we received many visitors to the Embassy and many messages of condolence on the death of Margaret Thatcher. I was touched to read the sentiments of the many admirers that she had in Romania, and her achievements as seen by people in this part of Europe. In the first place, she is seen […]
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12th July 2012
I had a rare treat yesterday evening. A troupe of travelling actors turned up in the George Enescu square and put on a free show for the Bucharest public. The play was Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like it’. The actors happened to be from William Shakespeare’s very own theatre, the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London. For […]
14th May 2012
I very recently took part in the launch of a new book covering the most remarkable chapter in the history of relations between Britain and Romania. Professor Costel Coroban has researched and presented the extraordinary story of the Scottish women’s ambulance corps (known as the Grey Partridges because of the colour of their uniforms). This […]
23rd April 2012
I returned last week from Bucovina, in the far north of Romania, where I spent Orthodox Easter with my family, my godson and his brother and parents, who were visiting from the UK. There can be few better places in the world to spend Easter than among the fabled painted monasteries of Bucovina. Here five […]
22nd February 2012 Bucharest, Romania
Second in our series of blogs about Great Britons in Romania are Shajjad and Katie Rizvi, founders of The Little People – a charity dedicated to providing psycho-social and educational services to children suffering from cancer. Shajjad came to Romania in early 1990 to deliver a shipment of humanitarian aid. He planned to stay for […]
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28th November 2011
Here’s one area Romania does not want to ‘catch up with the rest of the EU’ – obesity. The latest study by Eurostat shows that Romania has the lowest incidence of obesity among the 19 EU Member States surveyed, with 8% of women and 7.6% of men recorded as obese. At the other end of […]
24th November 2011 Bucharest, Romania
British philanthropist Graham Perolls and his superb team at Casa Sperantei have been supporting Romanian charity sector for almost two decades now. As British Ambassador Martin Harris commented recently, Casa Sperantei is a British strategic investment in humanness. Graham is sharing with us details of his latest project aimed at helping terminally-ill patients in Bucharest […]
19th October 2011
Manchester United were in Bucharest last night for their Group C match in the UEFA Champions League. Their opponents were Otelul Galati – the surprise winners of last years’ Romanian championship, and an historic club from the steelworks in the town of Galati, close to the Danube Delta in eastern Romania. It was a great […]
14th September 2011
How good to be in Bucharest now that the ‘George Enescu’ festival is here! When I first saw the programme for this year’s twentieth festival, I could not quite believe my eyes. It looked like one of those conference programmes which promise the President, three Ministers and the British Ambassador, but when you turn up […]
7th July 2011
Guest blog: My wife, Linda McLachlan, visited recently a pet therapy project taking place in Voluntari, on the outskirts of Bucharest. The idea behind it is simple yet impressive – bring vulnerable children and mistreated animals together to help each other overcome their unfortunate past experiences. ‘It’s long been argued that you can judge a […]
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