Tag Archive for Romania

Foreign Farm Workers

Approximately 30% of agricultural workers in Spain of foreigners; it’s hard to find Spaniards who are willing to work in intensive cultivation in the hot south, for example.

Hubble Bubble Toilet Trouble

Sticking with toilets, here’s a quick one spotted on the Metro website, about a portable toilet that appeared in the middle of a busy street in Romania.
Police in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca admit to being completely baffled as to how the toilet ended up in the middle of a main street. (The temptation to put ‘the police have nothing to go on’ is very strong, but we will resist. Ed.)

Unwelcome Neighours

Locals are not happy with the pronounced arrival of Romanian Gypsies from the Levante. No fewer than nine mini shantytowns have sprung up near Barrio Los Alamos.