Another empty hotel room - Bistrita

Bistrita - a wonderful city


Phoenix restaurant -near Bistrita river


Bistrita river - of course



Some windows



Tunul dogarilor - Coopers' Tower

Other windows



The Promenade Alley


The Luthern Church

"The main attraction of Bistriţa's central square is the Lutheran church, which was built by the Transylvanian Saxons and originally constructed in the 14th century in Gothic style but later remodeled between 1559–1563 by Petrus Italus with Renaissance features. It was re-renovated in 1998.
On 11 June 2008, the the tower and roof of the church caught fire for reasons that are yet unknown. " Wikipedia



And since I was in there, I couldn't miss the opportunity of seeing the surroundings, in the company of a friend who lives about 50 km from Bistrita.




Blazna Valley - it is by far the most beautiful boarding house I've ever seen in Romania.
It also has the longest teleferic in Romania and is a kiddies heaven.
Just don't dread the infrastructure which is, to quote a grand Romanian writer (Caragiale) "admirable, sublime we might say, but completely missing".

My friend's 4 months old "puppy" - when I'll be old and crazy I'll definitely have tons of dogs to look after (hopefully) - Romania definitely doesn't lack communitary dogs and cats.


Old whirlpool - people still use water power to wash their carpets (no detergent :)))


Fried ham on an uncirculated road - you can't imagine how cold I was (1271 m altitude). Nature. Friends. Out of grey (B City).

Mountains.

Fairy tale - Lisa Hannigan

I discovered her thanks to Damien Rice and I instantly fell in love.
She is so happy and playful, and this makes her beautiful.
I think all people are beautiful when they're happy...

Magic...this is the word for the atmosphere she creates :)



"... your boots are laced with melancholy ... "





"... I assume that your heart's been bruised ..."

..."nha grande sofrimento"

Ai, ai ô mar para bô ouvi
Para bô ouvi ess nha lamento
Ouvi bem mar ka bu ri
Dess nha grande sofrimento

Djam flabo ke lingua di mundo
É mas comprido ke bô fundo
El têm na nha pêto c'daz
El fazêm perdê nha amor

Nhôs falam sim m'ka têm razon
Fazêm mar nha confidente
Se m'ta triste el ta tchora
Se m'sta ri el ta contente

Sex and tango

It's somehow funny, maybe strange, how two beers and a tango can stop the buzz in my head and bring me some peace of mind at the end of a work week...

So here it is... the tango, and I let you choose the beer (or some other alcoholic beverage).

Enjoy!

Tangobar Dances Gotan Project

Second thought

I gave my "delete" decision a second thought and restored the blog, even though I probably won't be much of a blogger.

The new thing in my life: tango

Bajofondo - Zitarrosa

Monthly post..

Listening to Placebo, preparing to go to bed..only 10 pm.

Last week had been a drag, this week even more and I'm still struggling to get back on track.
Lucky for me, my job keeps me completely occupied during the day.

Back to B City

My april adventure of teaching in a natural park ended and I'm back to the noisy big city again...
Walking 10 minutes to work every day for two weeks, living near the forest... fresh air and birds singing all around made me analyze my life so far and created quite a storm in my heart.
Ever since I was little I wanted to move to B City and stay there forever, there where everything happens and where 11 pm doesn't mean empty streets and closed bars.
In my small town I was always bored and wanted something else, something noisy, crowded, fun, and B City seemed like THE perfect solution.
But now, after almost 7 years of B City, when my life has become a closed circle (traffic-job-traffic-home-sleep) I realized maybe the circle provided by an S Mountain City (S=small) is not so bad as it seems.
And the worst part is I started hating my "sit-in-front-of-computer" job and wanting a "field" job.
This is almost hilarious, come to think about it...Since I'm a geographer, I'm supposed to do field work, but when I was in college I always hated the idea of field work. ...now I want a job outside the office.

As you can see, I'm upside down right at the moment, I could even go as far as admitting I don't know what I want anymore...


But I promised some bison photos from the "Vanatori Neamt Natural Park" so here goes:
(all of them are taken this month)

One bison staring at intruders

Three bisons staring at intruders

Some poor tree tormented by bisons

A stork in a tree near the bison reservation

A means of transportation still heavily used in the villages of Romania

Below is one of the many monasteries which attract thousand of tourists (romanian and foreigners) in Bucovina and Northern Moldova every year

Sihastria Monastery

And finally, me climbing (I was properly equipped for this activity - the only appropiate things were the boots:))

PS: As I mentioned in the previous post (I forgot my camera at home), I am not the author of these pictures (my students took them).