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On a Sunday, I set off with my friend Victor Menaschez, the greatest sportsman from Cârlibaba, towards Lake Lala – a glacial lake in the Rodna Mountains, at an altitude of almost 2000 meters – the most popular tourist destination in our area. We choose to ascend the Lala Stream trail, as it is the […]

While Romanians have been leaving massively their home-country, an opposite phenomenon is taking place – many foreigners are settling in Romania. The Romanian press, perhaps a little neurotic, searches for an explanation for this phenomenon: what do these foreigners seek in our country? Many foreigners who have settled in Romania have been invited to television

(written for Dutch public) Four years ago, I moved from the Netherlands to Romania. The question of why has as the shortest answer – „family circumstances”. „How I feel about it?” – I usually answer with – as a mind-expanding experience unless it’s one of those days when doubt creeps in, and the term “bad

After a summer full of tourists in Malu’ Bistriței, I am now in Balchik, finishing what remains to be written about tourism development in Romania. Here, in the gardens of Queen Maria’s palace, I am glad that the Bulgarians have taken care of Romanian heritage, and I wonder – couldn’t the same have happened in

On the way to Cârlibaba, I’m listening to the radio: ‘Mrs. Teacher,’ the reporter asked on the radio during a program about the teacher’s strike, ‘many would consider a net salary of 6,800 lei (around 1400 euro) to be a decent salary, wouldn’t they?’ After a moment or two of silence, Mrs. Teacher responded uncertainly,

We have been looking forward to this moment all winter – to arrive in Metis, (a Saxon village not far from Agnita) – we throw open the windows and shutters, sunlight and the freshness of spring take over the house instantly. This house was build by Saxons 200 years ago, with its thick stone walls,