The Romanian construction worker Costel Busuioc went to Spain as a guest worker 2 years ago. His colleagues on the construction site encouraged him to participate to a “Spanish Idol” type show, Hijos de Babel, made for members of international communities in Spain. How it went you see below. He is still in contest, after…
I had almost 1000km ahead of me that day, so i woke up early. With eyes half-open, taking the luggage to the car, I went out of the building and… stopped. Fog. What a fog. Like in movies. Was 8 in the morning. So I said – I’ll hang around for a while, by the…
Mile 870: Olomouc They say that less than 10% of the tourists entering the Czech Republic go somewhere else than Prague. We were among those 10% and drove 300 km to Olomouc, a city in the east, close to the Slovakian border; former capital of Moravia, the second region of the Czech Republic, after Bohemia,…
Mile 700. I was blown away by Prague. I knew it is a beautiful city, everyone I heard talking about it was very appreciative, but I didn’t expect… this.The night we arrived we went for a walk, without the camera. Awesome. I couldn’t believe it. The old part of town is HUGE, and brilliantly restored.…
Mile 600: Dresden. We parked next to the Frauenkirche, Lady’s Church, in the convenient underground parking. Frauenkirche, the most well-known church in Dresden, was completely distroyed on Feb 13, 1945 and restored in 2005. It is impressive, with its „dalmatian” style of old burned black stones and new yellow ones. I dont know if the…
Mile 400: à Goettingen, à Goettingen. At the beginning of our walk through Goettingen, on the way to the university, we saw these two girls sitting on a fence, very preoccupiedly reading… Harry Potter 7. Both of them. afterwards, we noticed that guy trying to climb a kind of steep terrain with his bicycle speaking…
i finally tried it this week-end, after much postponing. it is, like a friend told me, “inspiring”. i recommend: 1) read this tutorial 2) reserve a lesson with an instructor 3) go 2 hours or so BEFORE the lesson, pick a (VERY) small hill and get used to the board, doing the exercises in the…
Guggenmusik is street music people play in the Carnival period in germanic areas of Europe. Bands have colorful costumes and masks; they play the songs just over the edge of being “right to the tune”, but skillful, so it doesn’t go astray. It is quite an entertaining sight. This one was in the Zurich railway…
Only 248 of 350 were open. 248 kilometers. Of slope. All in the same resort. They say it’s the oldest mountain resort in the world, host of the second Winter Olympic Games edition in 1928. If it wouldnt have been for G.’s visit, I probably wouldnt have gone to St. Moritz too soon. I went…
My friend G. came for a week-end visit, so we took a walk through Zurich. It seems I only get to see the city when friends come over – which is cool, every time I discover something new. Beautiful sunny day, trickily reminding of spring in the middle of January. The lake was quiet, ready…
just found out about the marillion version of the song “wish you were here”. check it out and see what makes it special. i loved the idea.
I wrote this small reportage for smugmug journeys, but since it is, actually, about …footsteps/shootsteps, i guess it belongs here as well, so – here we go… … A walk through Sighisoara is like a journey back in time. The city was built by German colonists called “Sachsen” (Saxons), who settled in starting with the…
my friend Nick pointed this out to me the other day. whether you close your eyes when listening or not, your choice. the video is nice too. i would try both variants. let nothing else matter, at least for a few minutes.
i found this song by chance, and it followed me through the last days of 2007. couldnt have enough listening. like a charm, it gets under your skin and then takes you off your feet: [trilu-audio]http://www.trilulilu.ro/petreradu1/92cd6b2b7aa55a[trilu-audio] this is how i found TerniPe, a hungarian gypsy music band aiming to find and restore original gypsy music,…
Exploring your home land can be at least as exciting as traveling the world. other emotions, but similar excitement. like kids discovering another hidden passage behind a seemingly harmless door, in the household – a brandnew gate to adventure. usually, spots in immediate proximity to home remain fairly unexplored, by the principle – “can be…
on new years eve i climbed a hill close to the city, to take pictures of the fireworks. it was cold and foggy; here is what came out under the circumstances. the big light in the first pictures is a laser beam from the restaurant on top of this hill, which earned it the nickname…
* for their impressive historic sites, well preserved and “showcased”, * for the Danube, * for the „Christkindlmarkt” – clean, civilized * for the souvenirs and products in general of good quality and taste (no plastics!) * for the diversified street cuisine * for kurtoskalacs * for the civilized, clean atmosphere (e.g., in the metro)…
From snowy Sighisoara, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And my favorite Christmas carol: [trilu-audio]http://www.trilulilu.ro/hosmy/ac2da6c6cde403[trilu-audio] See you in 2008!
the journey home was longer and shorter. longer than usual, shorter than expected. i took the train to munchen and from there the overnight to budapest. i could have gone straight home by train, but i reserved a plane ticket from budapest to cluj. it was ok like this, a 28 hours train ride would…
Dijon’s great touristic attraction for me on Sunday was the game between Romania and Hungary, at the women’s handball world cup. So I drove the 3 hours to the place, managed to get the ticket i had reserved via the internet (collection centers were all closed.. sundays.. so i got it finally from the sports…
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