Hi there, folks! If you’re Catholic, Protestant, or any of about 500 other flavors of Christianity, today is Easter. If you’re living in Moldova, where only a few renegade Ukrainians and “weirdo” evangelicals celebrate Easter today then you’ll have to wait another month or so for all the Orthodox fun. Fun Fact #1: The Orthodox church in Romania uses the Gregorian (modern) calendar date for … Continue reading Happy Western Easter Time Travel Day!
Once again, the British show their predilection for sneering at Romania for being an ex-Communist hellhole of Gypsy poverty while simultaneously embracing it for its traditional rustic charm in a new piece by The Guardian. Hats off to the journalist for actually going to Romania. And for speaking to a guy who once did me a kindness that I failed to appreciate (Cristian Lupsa). And … Continue reading The Romantic Hellhole Everyone Loves (to Hate)
Originally posted on positivenewsromania.com:
? Romanians will be able to buy coffee with poetry in over 200 coffee shops from around the country. The manifest campaign called “Pay with a poem” will take place for one day only, on the 21st of March, 2016. The campaign started in 2013 when 6,300 poems were gathered.In 2014 on the International Day of Poetry coffee lovers visited 150 coffee shops… Continue reading On Monday you can pay for your coffee with a poem
Don’t have too much to add to this photo and brief post about mamaliga from one of my favorite new bloggers except that it’s interesting how each region of Romania (and RM and Ukraine) has their own different traditions about how to eat the stuff. In Cluj, it was often akin to a garlic and cheese “pie” while Sarah’s post talks about how people eat … Continue reading Let’s Eat Mamaliga!
Originally posted on Adventure Fanatic:
Built A Bicycle From Scratch, Then Cycled It 5,000km From Romania To Kazakhstan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgze73f0yZ4 ? ? In 2014 I finished building the first prototype of my new cargo bike design, Bringley. Not happy with just test riding around London, I decided to take it on a 5,000km journey overland from Romania to Kazakhstan. Continue reading Built A Bicycle From Scratch, Then Cycled It 5,000km From Romania To Kazakhstan
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