here’s the context: Steaua Bucharest, the best romanian team all-time, played against Universitatea Cluj, somewhere in Transylvania, a team ranked LAST, without a victory. Steaua was leading 1-0, when this happened: At the end “U” Cluj won 2-1.This is why some people like football.
followed the insider tip from the „Marco Polo” tourist book and went to Walensee, a lake 90km away, off the beaten path. Mountains fall into the lake abruptly from ~1000m. that was in the book.Here comes the insider tip to the insider tip: dont stop there. Follow the random sign to „wallestadtberg”, („city-of-the-welsh-mountain”), and dont…
and last but not least, due to a win in Luxemburg and Albania tying Bulgaria (respect Tirana!), Romania qualified to the Football Euro 2008 championships! Yipeee!!
was amazing to meet, in chronological order, Arturo, Barbie & Paula, Michal & Zahri, Malini, Navjit, Selin and Dean, plus bonus track Selin’s brother and Malini’s sister :). I am hereby asking them to send me the respective pictures! 😛 it is such a fun phenomenon – you meet a very familiar face, but the…
massachusetts turning red. the great nature’s autumn festival – and i was privileged to witness it for the second time, after exactly 2 years. the route boston-newyorknewyork is hamazing. recommended for your next week-end, whoever is reading this and can :). http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf
boston, charming as ever. walking through the city was a great continuation of the whalewatching morning. One little favor global warming gives us were these great indian summer day with 25 degrees (celsius) in boston! http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf
whale watching was much more impressive than i thought. i expected it to be “nice”, but it was quite overwhelming. It must be the size, the setting, everything together… when you see the green spot announcing the whale surfacing (it is green because the plancton makes the white skin look green through the water :),…
back in zurich. coming from 26 degrees celsius (80F)in boston, the 3C (39F) here were quite a welcome. last night there were 30F. have to rush, it seems new project is waiting… the last 2 weeks seem like a dream.
important game today, romania-netherlands 1:0 in the euro 2008 qualifying. with this important and surprising result romania is, amazingly, almost qualified! am keeping fingers crossed for the last 3 games. more about boston later. takes a bit of time to let things sink in. for now just to mention how awesome it was to meet…
the rugby world cup is going on these days. below some samples of what it can be like.
alright, folks, anyone up for a late night in boston, somewhere between 7-21 oct? it seems i’ll be in wellesley, MA, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, for a training. “it seems” because till yesterday it was supposed not to work out, but i got one green light – now avaiting the visa. if u’re…
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