Taking a trip, going back to basics (?)

This is what the actual Hotel Pescarus looked like 110 years ago.

For today's view on the lobby:

If you want to take a look at the album, help yourself.

More details coming soon, included in the Adevarul de Seara newspaper. 

Here's a tune to get you through this Thursday - I'll be back shortly.

Tune in

It's all about the music, they say.
I say it's about the grandpa's groove. 

Stay by the bear to hear more preferences soon!

Where a bear can get his honey around Bucharest

Recently, everyone kept saying there are no places to go in Bucharest. I contradicted every single statement of this kind. They are just... undiscovered. Must see all of them before hibernating, must revisit my old favourites, must stay in touch with the new stuff. Oh, as a small  bear-treat to myself, right after getting my pockets full. Yum.



1. Sky Bar Bucharest www.skybar.ro
Come on, since when were you thinking of emptying liters of fresh smoothies or nasty cocktails in a place like this without booking a flight?
It's the little guilty pleasure of each one of us, no matter what we like to do in our free time or who we are or what we afford or like to afford.
TGI Sky Bar finally in Bucharest - it was about time we sent those roofs to sleep!













2. Ok, this I didn't forecast. Seems that some of us spend 16.000 euros on dinner in the air. Good that it's available and possible though. http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/bucuresti/Bucuresti-_Primul_zbor_cu_masa_deasupra_Capitalei_0_257374708.html

3. Does this taste as good as it looks? Hubba hubba
www.finellis.ro 













4. "Bear" necessities as Gustav is drooling over the laptop
www.satya.ro















     5. Very old favourite which I miss especially for the white-chocolate-chips sprinkled on the Tiramisu
www.uptown.ro 

6. Don't yet know much about David, but I much like his place: www.casadidavid.ro 

7. This guy seems to promise a beehive to me: http://www.lamandragora.ro/conceptul - read about the chef!

8. This is what I picture about the perfect grandfather-hangout area. If I were a grandchild to be carried around, of course! The Piano Bar! No, no, it's something like Beauty and the Beast. Or a decadent saloon around the 19th century.
http://www.carolparchotel.ro/hotel/food-bar-catering-roomservice.html




9. The Sushi Bar is in town! Lemme dip my paws into that wasabi!!! www.zensushi.ro

10. Organic Fest @ Bucharest: www.vilarodizio.ro

Beauty is in the eye of Mr. Achim Heine.

Thank you for giving me my pretty Japanese-German colleague with whom I go around the world - or at least plan to. She's so beautiful!

http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_3662.html

Top 10 Wishlist-type-of- Places-to-be

10 Places & 10 Reasons why

1. Kyoto's cherry blossoms to imitate the habitat of Murakami's Watanabe, Naoko, Kizuki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami

2. Allow a shipwreck for the sake of total silence @ Laccadive Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshadweep

3. Read a book, tire your IPOD - THE  tube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground

4. Gaze at the supra-human kiss @ Vienna http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/museums/museum-profile/Belvedere+Wien/466.html

5. New York, to discover one of the greatest Romanian Photographers http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/europe/15romania.html

6. Sibiu @ Faust, to discover yourself between Mephisto's and Faust's dialogues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXU78K6XSwg&feature=search

7. Pripyat, if you dare - abandoned, conserved, forbidden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat_(city)

8. Barcelona in style @ Boutique Hotel Ayre

9. Drinks @ Berlin http://www.berlin-life.com/drink/pubs_cafes_details/85-Spindler_&_Klatt

10. They don't call it Paradise for nothing @ New Zealand, Paradise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise,_New_Zealand

Jetztzeit

Walter Benjamin conceived the "Jetztzeit" - the momentary moment, the now, the second that already passed away.
This is Barney, un-rescued, but discovered, as you can see.

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

 Many thanks to Constantin Nimigean - and to his album

Lens and pigeon

Maybe we're predesigned to equally hurt ourselves and others - when do we stop? Realizing right from wrong never prevented man to STOP the - and increase the +.
What now? What can I, Bear, do?

"It's death who from the mirror my image sends
in turn gold, a child, ash.
I'm nothing but a dusty lens
through which time gazes with a laugh."
Mircea Dinescu - Lens

Vomit your soul and lick your wounds

I haven't yet found my way out of the balcony, but... this I found as an exhaustive comprehension of actual thoughts. As promised. The artist spits the dark blood into a colourful piece. The piece soothes the scattered eyes of a face that doesn't grim anymore. Thank you, artist. Thank you, Mr. Green. I want to vomit myself.

Copyright Smaranda Murarus

Courtesy of Smaranda Murarus - All Rights Reserved 2010

First breath of air

A balcony more than 100 years old as a shelter. A red ribbon that I never disposed of. 
The luck of being discovered, saved and listened to.