Romer!can » Photo Only http://romerican.com Dispatches from an American in Romania (was Transylvania) Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:22:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Calea Moşilor http://romerican.com/2009/02/06/calea-mosilor/ http://romerican.com/2009/02/06/calea-mosilor/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:57:50 +0000 Romer!can http://romerican.com/?p=914 casa pe calea mosilor

]]> http://romerican.com/2009/02/06/calea-mosilor/feed/ 5 Weather Update http://romerican.com/2009/01/08/weather-update/ http://romerican.com/2009/01/08/weather-update/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:59:40 +0000 Romer!can http://romerican.com/?p=730 The first real snow started this afternoon in Bucureşti.  It’s been building for a couple hours and threatens to bury the city in what’s turning out to be a gorgeous winter wonderland.

Ninge pe strada Mihai Bravu in Sectorul 3 la Bucuresti Romania
Snowing in Bucharest Romania, January 2009

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A couple weeks ago, one of these trei sori celebrated a birthday.  La mulţi ani, draguţa!

]]> http://romerican.com/2009/01/07/hey-ladies/feed/ 4 Scrub-a-dub-dub http://romerican.com/2009/01/05/scrub-a-dub-dub/ http://romerican.com/2009/01/05/scrub-a-dub-dub/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:40:49 +0000 Romer!can http://romerican.com/?p=662 Fumbling about for some orange juice one recent morning, I happened to glance out the window in time to see Darwin’s theory at work.

This guy apparently felt the need to step outside into the frosty air, wearing only a Romanian-colored track suit smothered in non-Romanian corporate logos and an expensive pair of super ice-grip boots, so that he might wash his windows.

Romanian man on window ledge in Bucharest winter

It seemed to take him quite a while to get the job done.  My hunch is that his wet towel was freezing as he went along, thus slowing down progress.  Since there was no particular single spot he was interested in (such as a bird attack), the daring feat kept him occupied a good 30 to 40 minutes.

Personally, I know both you and I would trust our sure-footedness on that frosty slick rail of the rusted out plant hanger to keep us from plunging several meters onto the bouncy, soft pillow-top mattress waiting below.

Spalara geama iarna la Bucuresti

Cue the circus acrobat music!

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Et quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Canine security guard dog for Garda Financiara, the Romanian national financial protection agency

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It’d be easy to justify paying more for a decade old bottle of wine, if it were given a rather rustic look compared to a standard bottle of wine.  Like treasure unearthed from a long-forgotten cavern below some WWII wreckage.  Everyone seems to admire its charm, wondering what you paid for it, and how it tastes.

Neither of which I’ll tell you. Buy your own.

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]]> http://romerican.com/2008/12/14/bar-fly/feed/ 0 Miss Mara http://romerican.com/2008/09/24/miss-mara/ http://romerican.com/2008/09/24/miss-mara/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:25:42 +0000 Romer!can http://romerican.com/2008/09/24/miss-mara/ Miss Mara

]]> http://romerican.com/2008/09/24/miss-mara/feed/ 3 Movie script tension http://romerican.com/2008/09/19/movie-script-tension/ http://romerican.com/2008/09/19/movie-script-tension/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:15:28 +0000 Romer!can http://romerican.com/2008/09/19/movie-script-tension/ Surrounded by bloc apartments, I sometimes wonder what in the world some people are doing. In the US, it would be none of my business. Here, it’s just a morbid curiosity.

Strange inhabitant

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