Wow! The messages keep rolling in. Sadly, no marriage proposals in this batch :P From a reader: Your initiative is simply wonderful and I greatly admire your attitude. I wish more of my fellow countrymen followed your example. Bravo! I’ll be looking for your book. From a reader: Servus, Sam, I just recently discovered your blog and love it. From a non-Romanian reader: I’ve been … Continue reading Mailbag
A couple days ago, I had the pleasure of meeting a couple of “fans” who had read the book and wanted to meet with me. As it was a gorgeous day, we decided to sit outside at a “terasa” or sidewalk cafe to enjoy a drink and a chat. As it turned out, they both wanted some ice cream but when we sat down at … Continue reading Poza Zilei: Forbidden Pleasures
There’s an interesting “back story” to this photograph. As you can see, it’s clearly a middle aged Romanian man dressed in fairly typical clothes, the woolen pants, button up shirt and the jaunty hat. Yet he’s also got a hyper-modern bright yellow backpack with some indecipherable Japanese cartoon logo all over the back. I’m not cool enough to know whether “Ben 10 Alien Force” is … Continue reading Poza Zilei: Ben 10 Alien Force
This morning I was digging through some of my very oldest pictures that I’ve got on the computer and I discovered the photo above, which is of the “stadium” where I witnessed the Saddest Soccer Game of All Time lo these many years ago. Strangely enough, just the other day whilst out and about in town, I ran into the guy in question, the one … Continue reading Poza Zilei: Iara Stadium
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