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30 juin 2008

St. Peter, St. Paul and Waterloo

Dear Everyone, For those of you who love tradition, this was really the day to discover that Roumania is not about bare-footed gypsies and Dracula. With the Orthodox festival of St. Peter and St. Paul celebrated in every church across the country, the...

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29 juin 2008

Sighet Memorial Penitentiary and Pitesti...

I've realised with a certain amount of shame that I have never written a post about the Sighet Memorial Penitentiary in Sighetu Marmatiei, N. Maramures. Having visited it no less than three times and having been profoundly moved by what I saw, my only...

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23 juin 2008

A wonderful day at Bellu

Dear Everyone, What a wonderful day! Despite the 34°, Lucia and I were under the shadey trees at Bellu cemetry for the whole afternoon. Five hours of pure bliss, wandering between the memorials, mausoleums, crypts and tombs of the great names of Roumanian...

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19 juin 2008

Rarararararaaaaaa!!!

Dear Everybody This is just to let you know that part by miracle, part by Gaby's degree in Public Relations and Communications Science, and part by good old Roumanian customer service that albeit didn't exist at Altex ... I have airconditioning both delivered...

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13 juin 2008

La revedere!

Dear Everyone, Rosie and I are off to Brasov for the weekend. Very impatient to see Lidia and Marian - it's been seven weeks since we were last together so there's a lot of catching up to do. The coolness of the mountains isn't far away. Here in Bucharest,...

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12 juin 2008

Marin Sorescu and Shakespeare

Whilst in Dalles yesterday, which professes a wonderful second-hand bookshop, I stumbled upon a book of his poetry deliciously translated by various translators. Suffice to say that it's in Romanian, English and Italian, and I'm so thrilled to have found...

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12 juin 2008

Mihai Eminescu - 'Now far I am from you'

Mihai Eminescu (January 15, 1850 – June 15, 1889), born Mihail Eminovici, was a late romantic Romanian poet, unanimously celebrated as the greatest and most representative of his country. Nicolae Iorga, the Romanian historian, considered Eminescu the...

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9 juin 2008

Tiav Gallery

From Nine O'Clock: Tiav Gallery to open a new exhibition room published in issue 4198, p. 12, 09/06/08 The Foundation SOCIETA Club UNESCO will open a new exhibition room at the Tiav Gallery in the old part of Bucharest (end of str. Cauzasilor, sector...

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8 juin 2008

Sunday Morning Walk With Eugenia

Dear Everybody, Happy Sunday! I've just come back from a lovely walk around the Kiselef area with Eugenia. Nicole sent me an album with some gorgeous houses, some of which were in this neighbourhood, and I was keen to go and see them. Eugenia was just...

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7 juin 2008

Welcome Home, King Mihai.

From the Herald Tribune BUCHAREST, Romania: The Romanian government said Thursday it would return a castle and other confiscated property to former King Michael. Peles castle was built in the mountain resort of Sinaia in the late 19th century by Romania's...

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1 juin 2008

Caru' Cu Bere

I knew Caru' cu Bere had always been a beer cavern, founded in 1875 and so-named because a beer cart delivered there but that was the extent of my knowledge. Its history however, is fascinating.... As the Peace treaty was being signed in Berlin in 1878,...

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