16 November 2009

Reality tempers joy of Romania's 1989

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Nouveaux riche at the expensive Balthazar restaurant in Bucharest, 14 November 2009.

Listen to this damning NPR report about the corruption in Romania 20 Years after The Revolution here and read a Guardian article about it here.

2 comments:

  1. Wow, seems pretty expensive indeed. Did you had lunch there too? ;-)

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  2. This picture was made just before midnight on saturday night. Two glasses of red wine, a glass of mineral water, the salmon and an espresso ran me 90 Lei before tip :)

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