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Ararat 1 - Istanbul 1
Posted on May 27th, 2009 1 commentWe left Bucharest at 4:30 PM . After a long journey wıth Marina-Varvar transportation company(which worth all the money, and I recommend it), we arrive in Istanbul at 4 AM. The bus driver called 2 taxies for us. We decided to use them to arrive to hostel and also to airport the next day. Price per car = 50 euros.
At the hostel we took a room of 6 people and shared some beds for 60 euros, next day another 60 euros, for 7 of us, including breakfast.
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1-3 May 2009 - Făgăraş-Negoiu
Posted on May 6th, 2009 2 commentsPreparing further for our climbing of Ararat for this year, we had a session of trekking in second peak in Romania in Carpathians/Făgăraş/Negoiu mountains. Enjoy the pictures:
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De Paşti in Bucovina 2009 - Bucovina Easter 2009
Posted on April 27th, 2009 No commentsFew pictures from last Easter (19-20-21 April 2009): the huge egg from Suceava, a handsome cock, country side, flowers, a bettle and a little forrest frog
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Duminica Floriilor - Palm Sunday
Posted on April 13th, 2009 No commentsYesterday was the Palm Sunday - Duminica Floriilor, the last Sunday before Easter in Romanian orthodox calendar. The plan was to visit a monastery but because the car didn’t want, we rescheduled to go to Mogosoaia Palace. We enjoyed the gardens and the nearby landscape, with fishermen and flowers.
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Bucureşti & Chişinău
Posted on April 9th, 2009 No commentsLast two days I’ve been in the University Square, in the middle of Bucharest to attend the demonstration of solidarity with the youth from Republic of Moldova
For me this was more like a civic activity and also I was courious what is happening.
Details on the situation : BBC , blog1, blog2, blog3,blog4, blog5).
IMHO what happened at Chisinau was not like a revolution, but more like anarchy. And in Bucharest people were not really focused on something real: they were alternating the requests from union to new elections or new regim. But I also think that Romanians should react more, there were not many Romanians attending the demonstration but more students from Moldova.
After the demonstration we went and drank a beer directly from the source:
PS: I think the old man was broadcasting for his nephews in USA :))
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Spring is in the air!
Posted on April 6th, 2009 2 commentsAs spring came, I get my self in the state of starting to write on this personal blog. Why I made the pause? Because the previous hosting was provided by a third person who made some DNS farming and as a result its account ended up quickly. I only got 2-3 days last year to save my work. It took me a while to get a new hosting service, and today I discovered it is not very hard to import the old posts in the blog. Still, the comments are missing and also the pictures :(. I’ll try to put them back(UPDATE - I manage to add also the comments).
Best regards to all my readers, probably 1-2
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28 Mai - Cardano al Campo, Milan Malpensa Italia
Posted on June 4th, 2008 No comments(writing from Marrakech on a French keyboard)
- we landed at 4:20 PM and at the airport Frederico, the son of the host was waiting for us;
- we were hosted in a little and clean room with 2 beds, in a beautiful vila located on street Gramsci paying 75 euros + 20 euro the transport from/to the airport
- we ate “gelata italiana” at Gelateria “Le Biolle”; 2×2.20 euro ( 3 scoops each)
- whiskey cream, fiori di latte, chocollate
- limone, straciatella, ambrosio
- we walked through the village; the houses have an unique style, dinstinguished, italian and mediteranean with beautiful gardens, exotic trees and neat grass
- during our walks we found a shop with nice, antique, indian furniture
- an wordrobe made from accacia wood, costs 870 euro
- Cardano al Campo is a very beatutiful village with narrow streets and nice coulored houses and smelling flowers
- we searched for the restaurant recommended by Frederico and we found on Via Roma, la Trattoria Fantesia; because they didn’t let us stay on the terrasse we left and went to a pizza house that we saw before and liked it: Arte Pizza
- we ate a delicious Capriciosa Pizza (5 euro):
- the bread was made in front of us
- lite ham, mushrooms, anchois, artichokes, olives and mozarella
- we drank 2 glasses of cold zipfer beer (2 x 4 euro)
- back to the house we were served by the host with 2 beers on th house (Perlen Bachen) on the terrace in front of the house surrounded by the local cats
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Tudor Gheorghe - Concert
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 No comments“La Margine de imperii” is the last concert of one of the most genuine Romanian singer, Tudor Gheroghe. When Tatiana suggested to go for the tickets, I jumped in without any hesitation. There was a long time since, we both wanted to go to a concert of this artist. This concert was special, because it presented new-old songs, from Bucovina, the place where me and Tatiana where born. The singer received a book that contained over 400 songs from Bucovina, gathered at the beginning of the XX century, by some Austrians sent by the Austro-Hungarian Empire which ruled the region at the time. The concert was a blessing, here bellow a fragment:
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2008 Bucharest, NATO Summit
Posted on April 8th, 2008 2 commentsLast week, Bucharest was the host for the biggest NATO summit according to this source. The event was supported by the Romanian state and by Bucharest inhabitants. I won’t write anything that can be found in the news papers. It is true, that Bucharest was cleaned and beautified before the summit, and it is true that the activity of the capital was affected. But also is true that the event was a success. More abut the back stage here.
I was amazed to read a blog entry like this, where people that are characterized to be smart are talking about the event like it was just another Romanian fiasco, and Romania is a second hand country. I can’t say that I’m very proud about being Romanian, but I can say that I’m prouder after this event. You can’t escape from a mentality of a loser by whining about how things are. May be, this is the faith of Romanians. The is a Romanian folklore poem called “Mioritza“, that expresses some how the pitch of the Romanian soul: looking at the facts without having a reaction, contemplating is a bless and a curse, or may be it’s like this?
Some how I felt at this summit that some things are changing, that we can prove to be good hosts, like we like to think about us and we prove to be able to use the second biggest building in the world The House of the People, to its real value.
Congratulations Romania & Bucharest!
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Posted on March 27th, 2008 No commentsWednesday night, Orange movie at Movieplex. Taty suggested to see Love in the Time of Cholera. I looked at the trailer and we decided to go for the 22:15 show. I think that the movie deserves more thant the rank on IMDB. I laught and feel good watching it, even I didn’t like the plot too much. I’ve seen a Javier Bardem (Florentino) much more different than the one from No country for old men and I could say it’s is an interesting actor, with substance. Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Fermina) was very pretty and had an aristocratic air, which I liked.
I would like to say more about the novel. I think Florentino is a little bit insane. His life stopped at some point and didn’t changed despite the time. His stubbornness amazed me and also his patience and calm. I can’t say this is a real story… in real life, people go crazy easier and things go bad more often. But we don’t go to movies to see real life, may be we need from time to time, things to work the other way just to see it is possible. The movie presents only Florentino’s thoughts as they were, naked(through monologue), while Fermina’s thoughts are presented in dialog, from outside.
I tried to imagine the same story with common people, with common resources, but probably it is not worth it…common people don’t live such lifes
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