I just arrived to Bucharest after a long car trip through the rain. I stood about 5 minutes chatting with a 10 year old boy that spoke fluent English next to the road in Sighisoara when a car stopped and brought me directly to a metro stop in the centre of Bucharest. Double luck, as it is lashing rain all over Romania. 🙂 During the 6 hour ride the driver told me about his fight of him and his business against corrupt officials. They are trying to block his way whenever they can with imaginary fines, unneccessary formalities that take month etc. He gets this extra treatment, because he refuses to bribe them as it is common everywhere in Romania. He worked 10 years all over the world and has seen that things can be different. So he fights by bringing things infront of court (with corrupt judges), writing complaints to ministeries and informing the anti-corruption authorities. He told me that in his hometown the children of the mayor, main judges and police chiefs all own several luxuries sports cars, huge houses and lead a jet set lifestyle. I could only shake my head about such shameless and obvious corruption. A long way to go..