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I’ve had some issues with mailing an envelope by courier in Romania and I look at the alternatives to the market leader.

One particularity about Europe is that people enjoy all kinds of brands of water, and it is often carbonated or sparkling (in North America it’s "still" water). I don't care much about brands, I just want sparkling water and I want it at the lowest price.

I’m not a oenologist, I’m not even a “connoisseur” and I drink next to never. But when I buy wine and especially when I’m in Romania, I’ll buy some Romanian wines and I’ll tell you about it.

Given the recent surge in interest in Hidroelectrica (and Romanians trying to save money now that energy subsidies for everyone are ending), I took a deeper dive into Hidroelectrica, a publicly traded company on BVB under the symbol H2O.

I want to help Cola addicts with a translation of an anti-commercial, and I also look at a poor translation of the “new Rasputins” article.

Given my experience with Google automatically censoring my previous article on purchases, then releasing it on each update, I am a bit apprehensive about describing my shopping experiences again, yet if I put work into comparison shopping, I figured it might be useful to others as well.

I recently published a short trying to summarize some TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) measurements of drinking water in Romania, more precisely in Iasi. Since the video was cut by TikTok to some less relevant bits, it became necessary to (re)publish the results here.