Romania Stories


Sunny Transylvania

I always leave these things hanging. My apologies to my mom and any else who may have noticed. We did make it back from Romania, but not before a surprisingly pleasant stop in Transylvania. I don't know where the art directors for Dracula got their ideas, but Transylvania is not a dark and stormy land of craggy, barren mountains and steep, sinister ...


Not How I Pictured It

My vision of Bucharest was of a city demolished of charm and authenticity to make way for the drab and lifeless structures of communistic city planning, After all the meglomaniac dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu did use Pyongyang, North Korea as his inspiration. I imagined a city leveled and sparse, with wide uncrossable avenues lined with sinister gray ...


Peoples Palace

Yesterday the arrival was smooth after a reasonable easyjet flight - no more complains about low cost airlines ;-). Today was the big day: Visit to People´s palace! I was not motivated by the fact that its claimed to be the second biggest building in the world, but because it was possible (only my opinion) the last great endeavour of a comunist reg...


kt is in Apata

I now have been almost a week in the tiny Romanian village of Apata (pronounced A-pat-za); yes so tiny that it doesn't make the map, so don't even try to find it. Its been an intense week for me especially. I've been experiencing culture shock, it's not that I don't get poverty and am shocked by that, not that at all. But spirituallly, going from the...