Continue reading Poza Zilei: The Fly!

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

UPDATE: A few people wrote to me asking about this picture – the “blasphemy” is that this tourist isn’t carrying my book. Actually upon further examination, The Woman discovered the book in question is a Polish-language guidebook, so there you go ;) Continue reading Poza Zilei: Blasphemy!