Category Archives: Places
From the natural world
A Romanian photo was selected among the best 50 photos from the natural world by boston.com. It shows a bird in flight over a Danube Delta canal. (UNESCO world heritage landscape) Congratulations, Daniel Mihăilescu! The entire series is worth a look. Or more. Here – enjoy. And thanks V. for the link.
International horse show in Sighişoara, this week-end
Participating to a horse riding competition is logistically cumbersome – carrying a horse across thousands of kilometers across the continent(s) is no easy task. That’s why, especially in Eastern Europe, you get at most regional competitions, with participants from a few neighboring countries. That seems to have changed: 15 countries announced their participation at the [...]
3 days of happiness
“There are like 875.345 festivals in your neighborhood. Why should you go on a long journey for a Festival in a Romanian village?” Good point. Here’s a reason: the “3 days of happiness” festival. The kind of spontaneous initiative which can grow into something, if not big, at least very nice. The festival doesn’t have [...]
The color of hay
They still publish lush photography books, even if it sometimes takes 10 years to publish them. Kathleen McLaughlin’s “The Color of Hay” depicts people and their lives in a region called Maramureş, in Northern Transylvania. The book “is a culmination of 10 years of hard work and the result is a beautifully designed and printed [...]
The Art of Flight
Canada, Patagonia, Alaska, Romania, Wyoming, Austria. A select group for Romania to be part of as a destination for the Art of Flight 2011. Click on the picture below to watch the trailer:
A Romanian idea for an Oscar movie
Since primary school Romanian kids read, learn and study an old legend, a story that can be a good subject for a Hollywood horror movie. It is about a builder in an impossible mission: Manole, a well known professional, promised the king to build the most beautiful and impressive monastery in a place where bad [...]
New York Times on Bucharest
“Friends visiting from Boston yearned for an urban adventure. Where could they go for a long weekend that hadn’t yet been subjected to the centrifuge of globalization? “Bucharest,” I replied, and they laughed out loud. “Bucharest!? Is there anything to see there? And what about the hotels and the food?” “Trust me,” I told them, [...]
The Cave with Bones
Title sounds quite vampirical, doesn’t it. Actually, it’s about something quite human, and that from before the vampire age. That is, if you believe that humans 40,500 years ago hadn’t engaged on the vampire route just yet. The Cave with Bones, discovered in 2002 close to Anina in South-Western Romania was the finding place of [...]
Vampires strike again. 2:1
What we kept telling you gets confirmed from the credible source called “Swiss tabloids”: Yet another confirmation that we have been right all along. With their unmatched precision (that’s what Swiss are known for, right?),
Among Europe’s top 25 castles
OfftoEurope.com published a top of the most interesting 25 castles in Europe. Subjective, of course, but nonetheless instructive for places to see, many off the beaten track. To my delight, Romania has two castles in the top 10, and 3 in the top 25. This is remarkable especially since Romania doesn’t have many “internationally competitive” [...]
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