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Clear skies, sunny but cold weather and, like the song goes, blue sea. Deserted beach, frozen sand, waves breaking lazily along the shore. A dog runs away, scared by the ice cold water. This is how Vama Veche looked like on February 2nd. You almost couldn’t recognize the beach. Too few algae, almost no trash – Romanians aren’t suckers, of course they didn’t clean up the trash they left on New Year’s -, no open pubs.

The image of a deserted Vama Veche is weird. On one hand, it looks like one of the weekday summer mornings when the village doesn’t turn into a neigborhood of Bucharest. On the other hand, it looks like a picture torn out of a western, with a small town deserted because of the bandits, wind blowing along its streets, where the dogs left behind when the owners ran away rule the territory. Read the rest of this entry »

I was fascinated by the sea of people flooding the streets, swallowing you up and making you feel small and unsignificant, making you lose yourself and your goal. I was fascinated by the indifference hanging over each passer-by, the distance and the arrogance you were regarded with on the subway, or the reserved and superior smiles when hearing the Moldavian accent. Read the rest of this entry »

We have the following piece of news in Evenimentul Zilei [The Event of the Day]: Chain accidents and dozens of crashed cars on the highways (here, in Romanian). Obviously, the geographical placement of Romania, a plot from the weather, the bad state of the highway etc. are at fault. I want to see somwhere, written down black on white, that the fault belongs to the Romanian race drivers. I want them put against a wall and see their heads banged against the asphalt until they learn that winter really isn’t like summer and that summer is not like a Formula 1 circuit and that size of the brain is in inverse proportion to the weight of the foot. Read the rest of this entry »

I first met Sibiu a few years ago, when Klaus Johannis wasn’t yet mayor of this beautiful corner of Romania. It was like many other cities in Romania, a bit dusty and a bit sad. Of course, the road that goes along the bank of the Cibin isn’t much better now either. But, after the city was European Cultural Capital last year alongside Luxemburg, something clearly changed.

And, looking from the outside, as a simple tourist, I think that if this German ran for mayor again, I would vote for him hands down. I can’t forget that last summer we stopped in a medieval restaurant, somewhere near the Bridge of the Liars, and we ate very well for normal prices. Read the rest of this entry »

As someone who has worked in girl illness problems for sometime, Ithink it is really critical to disagree points done in Andy McIntosh’sarticle “Reefer stupidity character persists” (The Californian, May21). Read the rest of this entry »