Category: off the wire

a blogger's view of Romania, crappy guides to Romania, off the wire

New York Times, Cluj Photos, an idiotic Australian and Mormons Carving Pumpkins

Wow, interesting little grab bag for today. First off, probably the creepiest blog I’ve ever seen, this one from a Mormon missionary. This one is about “celebrating Halloween” in Romania and I have to again ask – WTF? This is not even close to being a Romanian tradition. Nor, did I think, was it a religious holiday. I thought (devout) Christians didn’t get into all … Continue reading New York Times, Cluj Photos, an idiotic Australian and Mormons Carving Pumpkins

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a blogger's view of Romania, Gypsies

Mici, Photos, a Swede, A Trip to the Hospital and Painting Gypsy Fingernails

Goodness! It seems like people keep writing about Romania and Romanian things! First off we have an American (in USA) who has never been to Romania but decided to cook an entirely Romanian meal, including mici. I will say that it seems the mici came out more or less okay. As for what “mushrooms on toast” or the apple dessert have to do with being … Continue reading Mici, Photos, a Swede, A Trip to the Hospital and Painting Gypsy Fingernails

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a blogger's view of Romania, crappy guides to Romania, Transportation

Visitor Amazingly Survives CFR (Actually MÁV) Ride

Although this post was actually written in August, I just found it. Apparently it’s the report of an American who “amazingly survived” a ride on Romanian MÁV Hungarian state railways, which were nothing like the real old days on CFR but still scared the pants off this traveler. Something wasn’t right…this didn’t look anything like the photos I viewed online. This train looked more like … Continue reading Visitor Amazingly Survives CFR (Actually MÁV) Ride

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CATS! (pisicile), off the wire

Friday Morning Check-In

Jeez, it always seems amazing to me just how many missionaries there are in Romania. Today’s first one is an American Do Gooder helping out somewhere near Suceava in (Romanian) Moldova. Probably her oddest post is about carving pumpkins into faces. Although pumpkins (and related squashes) do grow here and do get ripe around this time of year and often are eaten, carving them into … Continue reading Friday Morning Check-In

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a blogger's view of Romania

2 Do-Gooders, Facebook and Bags of Socks

Real grab bag here today, folks. First, a personal blog from a Do-Gooder missionary, writing in English but apparently Swedish, living somewhere in Bihor. Since I never went to school here as a young child, this post is interesting because it talks about the first day of school in Romania: The first day of school here is kind of a confusing mess, to be honest. … Continue reading 2 Do-Gooders, Facebook and Bags of Socks

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