David Neville Williams takes a look at a country which has witnessed some remarkable sweeping changes

Perhaps more than anywhere in the world, Romania is a country defined by its rurality. With the world population rapidly urbanising, between 1997 and 2006 Romania actually saw a net migration from towns to the countryside. Rural Romania can appear like the world that time forgot. Sheep wander aimlessly over expansive green hillsides, horse-drawn carts […]

There’s something decidedly melancholy about Bucharest’s turbulent history. Once lauded for the leafy boulevards and extravagant classicism that made it a dreamy, romantic city, scandalous reconstruction projects under post-war communist rule saw the large scale destruction of much of its heritage in favour of modern ostentation. What remains is a fascinating, mismatched collage of twentieth […]