Nearly 20 years ago I was desperately poor and unemployed when I got a temporary job doing manual labor. Over the space of three or four days I was paid minimum wage to pack and load heavy boxes onto a truck. And yet that demeaning job all those years ago changed my life. If you’re Romanian the following story will seem a little bizarre but … Continue reading The Unsleeping Eye
Well I know that when everybody and their brother is sending me a link to something (involving Romania) then it has gone “viral”, although I loathe that term. So for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here you go: Just for the record, I have no connection whatsoever to the producer of this video. Continue reading 40 People and a Mule
A member of my family is a professor and thus paid to be an expert in all things relating to Ancient Greece, that strange little experiment in history which so influenced the later Romans that they copied much of it wholesale and thus set the standard for much of modern day Europe from Britain to Romania. And yet, as I’ve written about before, the idea … Continue reading A Tale Told By An Idiot
I’m not going to lie – sometimes living in Romania gets me stressed out and occasionally depressed. Definitely. And sometimes when I’m dealing with the thousandth instance of idiocy after a long week, it makes me wonder why I live here. Today however I met with someone special. And we spent an hour sitting under the shade of a tree in a church cemetery here … Continue reading Hoy Me Toca a Mi
The other day I came across a Romanian news article with the acronym “ș.a.m.d” tacked onto the end of a sentence and it made me laugh. Lately I’ve been hearing from a few people who (unbelievably!) are actually trying to learn Romanian so I thought I’d add this one to the repertoire in case you find this little phrase and wonder what it means. Simply … Continue reading Ș.A.M.D
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