Short story: The Library. Language older than Ion Creangă’s
The Library They were surprised to find a library in the castle. They had almost not come in; the entry fee of 40RON (about £8) for the two of them would usually have put them off but it had begun to...
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I enjoy today, International Women’s Day, as I have many more female friends than male ones and always have had. So, to all you ladies who follow my blog or happen upon it accidentally Have a great day...
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Yorkshire Day
Some might say the Yorkshire Rose china, from Royal Doulton, is too fine for Yorkshire tea, but we can be posh tha knows This is the first Yorkshire Day (today) for several years for which I’ve been in...
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Romanians shame uk voters in EU polls
Standing among Romanians queuing to vote in the EU election in Leeds on Sunday I could only feel ashamed at the turnout in the UK election for the EU parliament on the previous Thursday. Romanians...
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România. La mulți ani! Seven things you may not know about Romania
The Romanian flag Only two weeks ago I posted about Latvia’s 100th birthday. Today (1 December 2018) we celebrate the 100th birthday of Romania – when Transylvania and Banat came together with ‘The...
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More gems from the ‘attic’ – English teaching in Romania
Finding 3 VHS tapes featuring aspects of my teaching of English in Romania a quarter of a century ago (post on 8th August), together with meeting two of my former pupils, were definitely the highlights...
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A sadistic Romanian police force – jandarmarie
Sitting in the sun 460km from Bucuresti, in my favourite part of Romania known as the Bucovina, it is difficult to believe what we saw on television last evening – some events at the protest meeting...
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‘Gems’ in the attic: 3 VHS tapes about email projects in English teaching...
Romanians are wonderful people but as far as the authorities are concerned if there’s the most difficult solution to a simple problem you can be pretty sure they will apply it. Being in the European...
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Amazing weather – disastrous in Romania
I have never seen Romania so green, so beautiful, but it is a beauty only skin deep. Beneath the surface disasters are happening. We left Yorkshire with an extraordinary summer, weeks of sunshine with...
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俳文 – haibun #0
俳文 This is my first attempt at haibun. Discovering an old ‘diary’ of my first two months in Romania, in 1993, bringing to mind events and emotions I had entirely forgotten, and reawakening those I had...
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To Romania without screwdriver and 1/2 inch spanner – Dusty2Romania II, with...
Our ultimate destination, Iasi. This is the church in which Petronela and I were married I’ve done it. I’ve booked the ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland as the first stage (or is it the second?) of...
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Herbal teas and being born again in the Romanian Bucovina
What remains of herbal teas brought back from Romania last summer, foraged by my ‘honorary grandmother’ I began to appreciate herbal teas only due to an experience during my second year in Romania,...
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WordPress with a begging bowl
Photo by York Press A lot of bloggers make a little money selling their ‘products’ through their WordPress blogs – self-published books, courses in anything from writing or photography to cookery,...
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English teaching and founding a Leo Club in Romania almost 25 years ago; fond...
Allstars members, all from relatively disadvantaged backgrounds themselves, gained many things from their involvement in the internet projects; the confidence to present their work to an audience of...
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Waking up from the Bucovina dream
As so often in Romania, things are not as they seem nor as you have been told. The necessary legal documents to buy the ‘dream house’ (see previous post) were not in order as we had been assured they...
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A step closer to realising a dream: a home in the Romanian Bucovina
My love affair with Romanian entered a new phase a few days ago when we visited friends in the Bucovina town of Câmpulung Moldovenesc. These friends knew we were looking for a house in the region with...
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A unique personal ethnographic museum in a high school – with a setting in...
Former headmaster Dumitru Bunea with a portrait of M Kogălneceanu, who founded the school in 1831 in a former ‘palace’ Two important things to do today, in the morning resolution of some medical...
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Eating crap in Romania is excellent! New WordPress app editor is not.
We’re not likely to do much today as it will be so hot but this evening we will meet up with the former ‘county inspector of history’ who had and has a high regard for Petronela as a teacher and has...
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Entering Romania from Hungary by road – Maramureș then Bucovina – to Iași
The moment I cross the border into Romania I feel better, particularly if I cross in the north east of the country. This route takes me most directly to where I say I was ‘reborn’ – the Romanian...
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OMG, real food, Romanian food!
I’ve been waiting for the Romanian scenery for a year. I’ve been waiting for the Romanian people and their hospitality for a year. But, OMG, I was waiting for the food! Of course we cook Romanian at...
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