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As a travel and lifestyle writer, I write about arts & culture, food & drinks, unique properties around the world (hotels and glamping sites), as well as up-and-coming destinations with booming artsy happenings and a burgeoning culinary scene. Since moving back to my native Romania, I’ve been covering Bucharest and Romania extensively. 

Europe’s Most Exciting City Right Now

Romania on a platter:

The new Romanian Cuisine

Cluj-Napoca: Transylvania’s

capital of culture

Bucharest

Travel Guide

African Art Capital:

Cape Town transformed

Why Romanians are

obsessed with garlic

MamaPan: Bucharest’s bakery with a social mission

Bucharest Stories:

Monica Suma

Eclectic Bucharest

Lonely Planet’s Global

Distillery Tour

Hotel Epoque

Bucharest

Exploring Schiedam, the gin

capital of the Netherlands

New museum in Bucharest

sheds light on communist-era

modern art

Take a sip of Romania’s burgeoning wine scene

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Testimonials

“Monica was our entry point to our experience in Romania, and her passion for her home-country and her city of Bucharest shone through in her curation of recommendations for the topics we covered in our series on PBS, Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi. Her attention to our needs when seeking stories to share was invaluable – she truly helped make our Season 3 Romania episode as eclectic as possible, listening to our story-telling requests in support. Mulțumesc, Monica!”

MICKELA MALLOZZI

Emmy® Award-winning Host and Producer of the Bare Feet TV Series on PBS

Testimonials

“I had the pleasure of working with Monica on Bucharest and Romania content during my time as Lonely Planet’s Destination Editor for Eastern Europe. She contributed to the LP website with feature articles, travel news, POI updates and travel photography. I can absolutely recommend Monica as a highly skilled, creative and informed travel writer with excellent attention to detail and passion for emerging destinations. She is also an experienced journalist with a good understanding of what makes strong travel features, who takes pride in her work and puts in extra effort to create the best possible content.”

BRANA VLADISAVLJEVIC 

Lonely Planet Destination Editor for Southeastern & Eastern Europe

Testimonials

“Monica excelled in her role as Bucharest local expert for the Google Trips app. Her responsibilities were complex and far-ranging, and included:


– deep research into the city’s transport services and infrastructure

– crafting more than 15 lists of recommended venues in categories such as food, drinks and shopping

– working closely with a writer and editor to produce a factually accurate and up-to-date guide to the city’s layout, key points of interest, cultural scene and so on


What impressed me most about Monica was her refusal to cut any corners en route to the goal of producing a comprehensive, factually accurate portrait of a complex destination. With very few English-language authority sources to tap, we needed a local expert who was patient, tireless and whip smart. Lucky for us we found Monica!”

MATT CHESTERTON

Project Manager at EnVeritas Group (EVG)

Testimonials

“Monica is the embodiment of a global citizen as she’s always darting around the world following the hottest travel trends to going to bringing out the most hidden and untouched destinations of the world. While she was NYC Community Manager at Trip by Skyscanner she helped grow our NYC Community on and offline through strategic social media and content channels and worked with her Ambassador team to throw high value events for our users on minimal resources. She is a strong asset to any team that she is a part of and was an absolute pleasure to work with.”

AUDREY LO

Head of Community Marketing at Trip by Skyscanner

Testimonials

“Monica was recommended to me by a colleague, so I hired her for one project. Then another.

Then we hired her for yet another. She showed impressive tenacity and creativity, and has a deep appreciation and understanding of travel, culture, and the arts.”

ALEX LEVITON

Lonely Planet Author

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