<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660</id><updated>2012-01-29T03:29:05.619+01:00</updated><category term='infraestructuras'/><category term='Cars'/><category term='Skateboarding'/><category term='Libros'/><category term='Fiestas populares'/><category term='local habits'/><category term='Romanian Language'/><category term='Arte Urbano'/><category term='Rusia'/><category term='Martisor'/><category term='&quot;Seismic Risk&quot;'/><category term='Skating'/><category term='Coches'/><category term='Ciudad'/><category term='Moscú'/><category term='&quot;Lydia Kotzbue&quot;'/><category term='chocolate'/><category term='New Year&apos;s eve'/><category term='Society'/><category term='Aviatorilor'/><category term='Parachute'/><category term='Revelion'/><category term='Nochevieja'/><category term='History'/><category term='Bucarest'/><category term='Cocor'/><category term='work'/><category term='2008'/><category term='infrastructures'/><category term='Cine'/><category term='Holidays'/><category term='Russian baths'/><category term='Londres'/><category term='Christmas'/><category term='MNAC'/><category term='aniversario'/><category term='Mihai Stanescu'/><category term='Fast Food'/><category term='Política'/><category term='Elections'/><category term='Música'/><category term='Craciun'/><category term='Alionka'/><category term='Estatuas'/><category term='vagabundos'/><category term='Russia'/><category term='telegondola'/><category term='trabajo'/><category term='Revolution Square'/><category term='&quot;Riesgo seísmico&quot;'/><category term='banya'/><category term='usos locales'/><category term='Parks'/><category term='London'/><category term='homeless'/><category term='Historia'/><category term='Politics'/><category term='Coffee'/><category term='Bucharest taxis'/><category term='Fiestas'/><category term='cable car'/><category term='Comunismo'/><category term='baños rusos'/><category term='España'/><category term='Cuarto Mundo'/><category term='Bucharest'/><category term='Leonard Cohen'/><category term='Street Art'/><category term='Moscow'/><category term='Tourism'/><category term='Cinema'/><category term='Music'/><category term='transporte urbano'/><category term='Atracciones'/><category term='Parques'/><category term='elecciones'/><category term='Nick Hornby'/><category term='Statues'/><category term='Turismo'/><category term='aniversary'/><category term='Art'/><category term='Navidades'/><category term='Café'/><category term='propaganda'/><category term='Sociedad'/><category term='Communism'/><category term='teleférico'/><category term='anecdotes'/><category term='anécdotas'/><category term='Arte'/><category term='urban transport'/><category term='Rumano'/><category term='Deportes'/><category term='Sports'/><category term='City'/><category term='Dracula'/><category term='Books'/><title type='text'>Este-Sudeste</title><subtitle type='html'>Descubriendo Rumanía: visiones, curiosidades y perplejidades.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>74</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-1983819266459940795</id><published>2009-12-18T00:08:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-18T17:28:18.683+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Carajillo español</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Carajillo"= coffee with brandy, explosive mixture to have at a cafeteria in the mid-morning break (trad.) [Pereulok's Academy Dictionary of Spanish language]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This morning, while I was having breakfast, I noticed a peculiar commercial: Spanish assotiation of alcoholic drinks promoting a reasonable consumption of alcoholic drinks in this merry period we are about to begin, not to get drank but to keep on the "typical Spanish" way of being happy, sociable, amiable...Publicity on alcohol and tabacco is now so heavily banned that campaigns are surrealistt; this commercial sounds exactly like a "no drink, no traffic accidents" one, I would have mixed the message, had not been listening with attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Syq5SMoiMTI/AAAAAAAAAuk/g9QMMrpUhyg/s1600-h/17122009228.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Syq5SMoiMTI/AAAAAAAAAuk/g9QMMrpUhyg/s200/17122009228.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But three hours later I really began to see their point. I was killing time before a meeting, having a coffee at a "Café &amp;amp; Té". One of those chains of cafeteria there's everywhere now, regardless the thousands of common cafeterias this country has, "cafés de barrio", "cafés de viejo" (neighbourhood ones, old ones). One of those chains I usually avoid if I can, out of principles and nonsense (specially Starbucks, the worst coffee in a totally faked supposedly cosy envirnoment), out of small pocket reasons (1,60 euro for a plain, no magic, coffee with milk? Did they think we're in Russia, or what?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Syq4-iaCWWI/AAAAAAAAAuU/Q-84lknCpi4/s1600-h/Bra_soberano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Syq4-iaCWWI/AAAAAAAAAuU/Q-84lknCpi4/s200/Bra_soberano.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;One of those chains that are decorated the same in Madrid's Gran Vía Avenue and Bilbao's Gran Vía Avenue, in Spain, Italy, London, Germany, Tokio and Timbuktu. But then I noticed a shelf just above the coffee machine: a metallic shelf with a bottle of Bayleys, another of Gin, three brands of Rum, two of Whiskey, two other vodka ones... And the Soberano Brandy one, of course!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Syq6-ijES9I/AAAAAAAAAus/dDhnWa7TBW8/s1600-h/17122009227.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Syq6-ijES9I/AAAAAAAAAus/dDhnWa7TBW8/s200/17122009227.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ten, twelve half-empty bottles, waiting for the morning &lt;i&gt;carajillos&lt;/i&gt;, the early evening drinks of people beginning partying right after coffeeing... and, most probably, the early morning drinks of the groups of crazy ones that end up their party night at 7am, 8 am, and have an alcoholic breakfast before going to bed at the only place that is open at that early hour... The serious cafeteria working during daylight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Would a fancy "give me a capuccino with a special topping for 5 euros" coffee shop abroad also have that impressive row of alcoholic drinks so clearly display? I'm not so sure. But hey, yep, probably that commercial was right, Spain is Spain... and business is business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-1983819266459940795?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/1983819266459940795/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=1983819266459940795&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1983819266459940795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1983819266459940795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/12/carajillo-espanol.html' title='Carajillo español'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Syq5SMoiMTI/AAAAAAAAAuk/g9QMMrpUhyg/s72-c/17122009228.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5607636116750632364</id><published>2009-08-23T23:09:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T00:24:37.790+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Este Sudeste 2.0  (Edu. In Memoriam)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Empieza una nueva etapa; después de tres meses de readaptación, he decidido volver a retomar mi blog, aunque ya no esté en Rumania, desde este Sudeste de Madrid en el que habito, y desde el cual sigo mirando el mundo que me rodea con bastante perplejidad y cierta dosis de cabreo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así como tantas otras veces antes en mi vida, medito unos meses, me reorganizo, me recoloco, guardo los recuerdos que merecen ser guardados y agradezco al mundo que siga girando. Y, subida a esa rosa de los vientos en la que me colgó acertadamente &lt;a href="http://cosasminimas.blogspot.com/"&gt;Blanca Gómez&lt;/a&gt;, sigo mirando y opinando, espectador participante, para todos aquellos que están lejos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquellos que están lejos... Algunos tan condenadamente lejos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como Edu, sincero (sincerísimo) y parco en cumplidos, al que le gustaba mi forma de escribir. Un grandísimo honor para mí. Edu, que comprendió pronto que la vida no debe ser un valle de lágrimas, sino un juego y una fiesta, y supo poner sus propias reglas a la partida que le tocó vivir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recordaré los buenos consejos que me dio durante este último año en los momentos más duros de mi experiencia rumana (qué bendición es a veces ese Messenger tan denostado). Porque la vida no hay que tomarla con filosofía: hay que tomarla con humor. Con humor, pero por los cuernos. No lo olvidaré.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Echaré de menos su presencia intermitente en mi vida, y echaré de menos también sus ausencias, su vida paralela a la mía, sus alegrías y sus fracasos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edu, el &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hombre Martini&lt;/span&gt; de nuestros veinte años, de sonrisa irónica y lengua afilada, testarudo y voluble, perezoso y esforzado. Lástima que sus pulmones no estuvieran a la altura de su corazón ni de su espíritu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Y el mundo sigue girando. Pero más lento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5607636116750632364?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5607636116750632364/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5607636116750632364&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5607636116750632364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5607636116750632364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/08/este-sudeste-20-edu-in-memoriam.html' title='Este Sudeste 2.0  (Edu. In Memoriam)'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2505992078338444424</id><published>2009-05-01T20:22:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.358+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Jewish Romania: fading memories</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Last summer, when I was planning a trip to the &lt;a href="http://www.romanianmonasteries.org/bucovina/all-bucovina-monasteries"&gt;Bucovina painted monasteries&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to spend the night at Gura Humorului, a town with little touristic interest, but situated at a crossroads, and thus a perfect operations center. I was also interested in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gura_Humorului"&gt;the information I read about Gura Humorului in Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;: it was, in origin, a Jewish peasant settlement, a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtetl"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;shtetl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; whose Jewish population was mostly deported during Second World War (3.000 people), while the rest (500 people) left for Israel in late 1940s, early 1950s. No matter that the current population of Gura Humorului (16.000 people) is non-Jewish, I was curious to see if there was something of the old shtetl left, like in Toledo or Girona historical centres, where some narrow streets reminds still of medieval Jewish communities, five centuries after Jewish were expelled from Spain in 1492.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I noticed nothing special there. It may be not so strange, in any case, as it's logical that in small rural spots, where both streets and non-wooden buildings are relatively recent phenomena, the history doesn't make such a permanent imprint as medieval towns that Jewish helped to build and get relevance in Spain. Jewish peasant communities, inexistent in Western Europe (where most of kingdoms forbade land ownership by Jews) were frequent in Eastern Europe until Second World War, but their memory is probably disappearing, as there are little descendants to keep memories alive on the spot (those who weren't killed have fled) and there is no buildings, no "stones" to be cherished by history-of-art lovers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SftP0lQEnYI/AAAAAAAAAiU/3CSvotSvPx8/s1600-h/20090207_1218_sinagoga.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SftP0lQEnYI/AAAAAAAAAiU/3CSvotSvPx8/s200/20090207_1218_sinagoga.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330942348694429058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cities should be different. History is more intensely felt in urban landscapes, and, besides, most of the Jewish community that survived &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah"&gt;Shoah&lt;/a&gt; (Holocaust) and decided not to leave Europe stayed in urban areas, having children, telling stories, keeping record of past events and both lost and surviving customs. But no. I was very surprised when I commented with some Romanian friends of mine that I wanted to visit the Jewish museum at Mamulari Street, located in an old Sinagogue, one of the few buildings left of the old Jewish quartier that was completely destroyed by razzia/progroms that took place in Bucharest during Second World War. Not only they knew little of the Jewish prosecution during Second World War, but even less of the role of the Jewish community in Romanian history. In 1904, 50.000 Jewish lived in Bucharest, more than one sixth of total population; Jewish quartier started at the back of Unirii Square (wher Carrefour is) and continued up to Muncii Square (Boulevard Decebal, Calarasilor Street...). 750.000 Jews lived in Romania in 1930 (4% of total 13 million Romanian population):  430.000 were left by 1947, and nowadays there's less than 10.000, many of them of old age, according to the Centre for Jewish Studies of Bucharest University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SftP05KYVeI/AAAAAAAAAic/40kPJvil_FM/s1600-h/20090408_1731.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SftP05KYVeI/AAAAAAAAAic/40kPJvil_FM/s200/20090408_1731.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330942354039264738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I come from a country, Spain, that, certainly, cannot boast about having a historical trackrecord of religious tolerance; I always say that is very easy to say that we Spaniards are not anti-Semitic at all, considering that we had none left by Catholic Kings. However, 5 centuries have passed in our case: it is eerie to see how the memory of Jewish influence in Romanian history has already faded so much in just three-generations time, and that even the local Holocaust is so little known here. What I know of Romanian Jewish community life and downfall (Holocaust) come mainly of external sources. On 27th January, The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Holocaust_Remembrance_Day"&gt;International Holocaust Remembrance Day&lt;/a&gt;, I attended a quite interesting conference on Jewish community in Romania before Second World War... organized by the Italian Institute of Culture. The Romanian content was provided by the Romanian collaborators of a historical memory project with its origin and main drive in Austria and Hungaria, &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.centropa.org/"&gt;Centropa&lt;/a&gt;. Not existing big museums or memorials dedicated to this issue, and if Lonely Planet tourist guide (whose Romanian volume is quite disappointing as a whole, by the way) makes some mentions and reference is, in fact, due only to its buyers: Lonely Planet Guides always  include references to Jewish history or Gay life, amongst other issues, being Jews or Gays two kind of tourists that editors consider to have, let's say, specific interests and needs while traveling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.longitudebooks.com/images/book_large/BLK02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 238px;" src="http://www.longitudebooks.com/images/book_large/BLK02.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I first knew of Romanian Holocaust while reading "&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/kaplan-balkan.html"&gt;Balkan Ghosts, A Journey Through History&lt;/a&gt;", by Robert D. Kaplan. This book, first published in early 1990s, focus in the most violent elements Balkan history, considering Romania, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Based on the personal experience of this journalist, that travelled around that area in late 80s and early 90s, it was writen just when Yugoslavian war had started, and its focus reflects the wish of seeking an explanation of that violent outburst in a region that was considered civilized and peaceful. A one-sided account, but a very interesting one, though to be added up to other equally one-sided ones in order to build a comprehensive idea of this region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember very well the chapters dedicated to Romania. A country that, after Ceauşescu, opened to the world again as if waking up of a bad dream. A peaceful and quite cultivated society able to sudden outbursts of rage, showing to the world its most terrible and cruel side: the way the Ceaucescu couple was killed and their corpses desecrated in 1989, the brutal repression of demonstrators in Bucharest by misled miners (the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineriad"&gt;Mineriad&lt;/a&gt;)... the killing of Jewish during Second World War: the Pogroms in Iasi (10.000 deaths) and Bucharest (where Jewish quartier was destroyed and a brutal slaughter took place at the municipal slaughterhouse), the death trains that deported thousands of Jews in such conditions that many of them didn't arrive to the camps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SfthXbf_VhI/AAAAAAAAAis/B3Rd4s_drOA/s1600-h/20090405_1698_tesela.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SfthXbf_VhI/AAAAAAAAAis/B3Rd4s_drOA/s200/20090405_1698_tesela.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330961639069931026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Museums are not, as one could think, cold places with no feelings. A museum is organised in order to tell us certain story the way their curators intend it to be told. Museums have a soul; they must have a soul. And, despite this recent and terrible history of hate and the thousand of deaths, what I liked best of the Jewish museum at Bucharest it was that the collection, organised chronologically, focused in life, more specifically in proving how the Jewish community developed in Romania and how, above all, it was a part of Romania. How the first Jews settled following the invitation of local kings and princes. How they gained Romanian citizenship. How they collaborated in creating XIXth-Century industrial Romania. How they involucrated in Romanian society and state not as a detached group but as Romanian citizens, participating in political life, and defending their country as soldiers in the First World War. How the Holocaust didn't destroy a community living in Romania, but a part of Romania. The Museum is called, as a matter of fact, "History Museum of Jews from Romania".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SfthW1rm0FI/AAAAAAAAAik/p95w56Ra1TA/s1600-h/20090405_1691_InteriorSinagoga.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SfthW1rm0FI/AAAAAAAAAik/p95w56Ra1TA/s200/20090405_1691_InteriorSinagoga.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330961628918108242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It is a modest museum, maintained by the aging local Jewish community, when they are able to and how they are able to. That's why it has, I suppose, such strange opening hours: from 10 to 13 every dat but Saturday (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sabbath&lt;/span&gt;). When I asked about a pretty new Hasidic sinagogue that I had seen near my house (far from old Jewish quartier in Bucharest), the old lady that surveilled the museum the day I visited it told me: "oh, it's new, it's not from our people, we don't attend there".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I left the museum wondering if they will be capable to keep it open. This small Jewish community of Romania, guardian of memories, surrounded by a Romanian society is forgetting its communist past as fast as it seems to have forgotten the Jewish heritage and the Holocaust shame. This local Jewish community with a support from Jewish international lobbies that I suspect to be quite feeble, as this "we the Jewish Romanians" spirit is not the kind of Jewish memory they are more interested to preserve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2505992078338444424?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2505992078338444424/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2505992078338444424&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2505992078338444424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2505992078338444424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/05/jewish-romania-fading-memories.html' title='Jewish Romania: fading memories'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SftP0lQEnYI/AAAAAAAAAiU/3CSvotSvPx8/s72-c/20090207_1218_sinagoga.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-22001061848121555</id><published>2009-04-25T09:34:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.344+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sponsoring Romania</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;During my last days in Romania there was a lot of debate on the change of country slogan: "Romania, simply surprising" has recently become "&lt;a href="http://m.mediafax.ro/engleza/romanian-tourism-to-be-promoted-under-new-slogan-romania-the-land-of-choice-over-next-mos.html?6966;4226653"&gt;Romania, the land of choice&lt;/a&gt;", although only temporarily, until the national tourism brand will be ready.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A silly change, a silly issue? Well, nothing is so silly when talking of such a lucrative industry as tourism, that implies also decisions on the strategy and discourse of a country when it decides to promote itself, and that is clearly underdeveloped in Romania. I'm sure that any of us who have lived a little bit over there, and our visitors, will agree at least on that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing is so silly when:&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;The new slogan was launched in a concert of Bosnian &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goran_Bregovic"&gt;Goran Bregović&lt;/a&gt; in Mamaia. OK, maybe a &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/04/maneaua-ucide-manea-can-kill.html"&gt;manele&lt;/a&gt; concert would have not been a right start, but they could have been chosen some fine local artist to become the voice of the campaign... By the way, it is funny for me that they chose a Balkan singer, no matter how great he is, as in Romania, certainly a crossroad, they stress the "Latin" heritage, forget the Slavic and Turkish ones and reject to be considered "Balkanic". Little Paris wants to be considered not only European but part of the heart of Europe. God knows what the hell that heart contains, though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The national tourism brand, financed by European Funds (FEDR, POS CCE), will cost a lot, 75 million of Euros. An international auction has already been launched (or maybe I should say at last, because that funding started to be operative by the beginning of 2008), and the company in charge will be selected during the spring. A lot of money, and, so I heard by the radio, a previous story of dubious actions related to this contract, not exactly corruption but what in Spain we call "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;amiguismo&lt;/span&gt;" ("friendshipness").&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;National tourism brand? What is Romania nowadays? What does Romania want to be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SfLG3p1rtKI/AAAAAAAAAiM/YT56KE1Bg7s/s1600-h/Romania+EURO+2008+Home.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 162px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SfLG3p1rtKI/AAAAAAAAAiM/YT56KE1Bg7s/s200/Romania+EURO+2008+Home.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328539968558838946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A few weeks ago I was in Constanţa while Romania and Serbia played there a classification match for the World Football Cup. I don't pay much attention to football, but when I bump into a match (and its supporters)  in that way, I usually pay my compliments, so I did watched this match at TV (Romania lost). What I noticed is that during this match the Romanian footballers wore a T-shirt with the logo of ALL the sponsors printed on it, not the clean one that is sold as merchandising, where only Adidas logo on it, not the clean one that was used last year at the UEFA EURO 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are quite a few, so the footballers looked like multi-purpose banners. But the sponsors, that can be checked also at the &lt;a href="http://www.frf.ro/"&gt;Romanian Federation of Football&lt;/a&gt;, are also quite significative:&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Adidas&lt;/span&gt;. Sport clothes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ursus&lt;/span&gt;. Romanian brand of beer, controlled since 1990s by the breery SABMiller plc.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Raiffeisein Bank.&lt;/span&gt; Austrian Bank with a wide presence in all Central and Eastern European countries.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pepsi&lt;/span&gt;. Refreshing drinks.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dacia&lt;/span&gt;. Romanian brand of cars, currently part of Renault group.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Carrefour&lt;/span&gt;. French supermarkets that are spreading all over Romania.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Samsung. &lt;/span&gt;Corean brand of electronic equipment.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gillette. &lt;/span&gt;Shaving razors.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bigotti.&lt;/span&gt; Italian brand of clothes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Konica Minolta. &lt;/span&gt;Photographic cameras&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I would stress four of them: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ursus&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Raiffeisein Bank&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dacia &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Carrefour&lt;/span&gt;. Romanian flavours, financial markets, cars and hypermarkets. Modern, transnationalised Romanian consumer society. "National pride" (national team) supported by foreign investors, through their own brand or through Romanian ones they control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I suspect that if I take a deep look into other countries' symbols of pride, I would also find interesting situations...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-22001061848121555?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/22001061848121555/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=22001061848121555&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/22001061848121555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/22001061848121555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/04/sponsoring-romania-patrocinando-rumania.html' title='Sponsoring Romania'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SfLG3p1rtKI/AAAAAAAAAiM/YT56KE1Bg7s/s72-c/Romania+EURO+2008+Home.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-401995068411623170</id><published>2009-04-21T18:14:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.466+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My dear Bucharest: some great and humble photos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Today, after finishing some issues I had far far away from Bucharest city centre, I did a strange, not-at-all straight way back home, a good-bye trip by my working-days Bucharest, in this quiet Tuesday after Easter, the "third Easter day" in Romanian, when you here everywhere "Hristos a inviat" instead of "Good morning", and you must answer "Adevarat a inviat" also... (Christ has risen - He has truly risen). Romania really IS a religious country, speaking of cultural habits, that makes Spain seems an atheist one! (And believe me, it is not).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always, lost my track... So I bumped into a great but very humble photo vernisaj at Metro Station Dristor 1, organised by &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bucurestiul meu drag&lt;/span&gt; (www.orasul.ro), called &lt;a href="http://www.orasul.ro/expozitii/2009expo/celedoualacuri/expo_090413.htm"&gt;Cele două lacuri&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.orasul.ro/expozitii/2009expo/celedoualacuri/2lac600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 194px;" src="http://www.orasul.ro/expozitii/2009expo/celedoualacuri/2lac600.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Why great? Well, just go and watch the photos; why humble? Not big frames or expensive enlarged photos printed in pretty poster boards, but DIN-A3 prints that can be unnoticed any other day in this busy common metro station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An exhibition done with love and care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos will be exhibited from 13th April until 26th April. If you can, pass by, and enjoy Bucurestiul meu drag (my dear Bucharest)! If not, check the photos at the &lt;a href="http://www.orasul.ro/expozitii/2009expo/celedoualacuri/expo_090413.htm"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-401995068411623170?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/401995068411623170/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=401995068411623170&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/401995068411623170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/401995068411623170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-dear-bucharest-some-great-and-humble.html' title='My dear Bucharest: some great and humble photos'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2632599595483113320</id><published>2009-04-16T14:15:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.372+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Strada Verona, Bucharest (April 2009)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3564/3446685125_6f97b4e8cd.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3564/3446685125_6f97b4e8cd.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "organizers" of this heavily stenciled and graffitied street that begins behind &lt;a href="http://www.carturesti.ro/"&gt;Cartureşti&lt;/a&gt; library at Magheru Avenue gather ideas for political posters, and choose every month the one that like the best to be shown in this pannel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To whom it might interest:&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;panoularthurverona@yahoo.com style="font-style: italic;"&gt;panoularthurverona_at_yahoo.com&lt;/panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;/panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;Some previous pannels: &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/strada-verona-bucureti.html"&gt;October 2008&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/12/strada-verona-bucharest-december-2008.html"&gt;December 2008&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;/panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;I don't know really which group or movement leads this Strada Verona thing (the pannel but also the photos on the windows apparently abandoned buildings, the stencils, graffitties and so on). I'd love to find out, but... Couldn't manage so far.&lt;/panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;/panoularthurverona@yahoo.com&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2632599595483113320?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2632599595483113320/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2632599595483113320&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2632599595483113320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2632599595483113320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/04/strada-verona-bucharest-april-2009.html' title='Strada Verona, Bucharest (April 2009)'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-1357590538278152017</id><published>2009-04-13T17:44:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.295+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Reviewing the 2006 TVR list of great Romanians</title><content type='html'>I found in Wikipedia a list of "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Rom%C3%A2ni"&gt;the 100 greatest Romanians&lt;/a&gt;", created in 2006 after TVR (Romanian TV) conducted a popular vote, in a version of a similar show made by Brittish TV. I will use this list to assess my general knowledge of Romanian,"environment", let's say, and how it changed after spending almost one year and a half in Romania, as a curious outsider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;B &lt;/span&gt;= I knew who he/she was before arriving to Romania ---&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A &lt;/span&gt;= I know who he/she is now that I've spent some time in Romania (at least I can say if this person was a writer, a politican of a footballer) ---&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;a &lt;/span&gt;= this name rings a bell now that I've spent some time in Romania (it could just be the name of a street I've passed by, though) ---&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;? &lt;/span&gt;= still unknown ---&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;44&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;[The Wikipedia article includes a brief description of the people included in the listing. I don't include it here, just in case anyone wants to repeat this exercise and this could influence the answer]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_cel_Mare" title="Stefan cel Mare"&gt;Stefan cel Mare&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;2.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_I_of_Romania" title="Carol I of Romania"&gt;Carol I&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;3.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Eminescu" title="Mihai Eminescu"&gt;Mihai Eminescu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;4.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_the_Brave" title="Michael the Brave"&gt;Mihai Viteazul&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;5.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wurmbrand" title="Richard Wurmbrand"&gt;Richard Wurmbrand&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;6.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu" title="Ion Antonescu"&gt;Ion Antonescu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;7.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade" title="Mircea Eliade"&gt;Mircea Eliade&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;8.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_John_Cuza" title="Alexander John Cuza"&gt;Alexandru Ioan Cuza&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;9.&lt;span style=""&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C5%9Fi" title="Constantin Brâncuşi"&gt;Constantin Brâncuşi&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;10.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Com%C4%83neci" title="Nadia Comăneci"&gt;Nadia Comăneci&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;11.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C5%9Fescu" title="Nicolae Ceauşescu"&gt;Nicolae Ceauşescu&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;12.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_%C5%A2epe%C5%9F" title="Vlad Ţepeş"&gt;Vlad Ţepeş&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;13.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_Becali" title="Gigi Becali"&gt;Gigi Becali&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;&gt;14.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Coand%C4%83" title="Henri Coandă"&gt;Henri Coandă&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;15.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Hagi" title="Gheorghe Hagi"&gt;Gheorghe Hagi&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;16.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Luca_Caragiale" title="Ion Luca Caragiale"&gt;Ion Luca Caragiale&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;17.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Iorga" title="Nicolae Iorga"&gt;Nicolae Iorga&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;18.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncoveanu" title="Constantin Brâncoveanu"&gt;Constantin Brâncoveanu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;19.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Enescu" title="George Enescu"&gt;George Enescu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;20.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Bivolaru" title="Gregorian Bivolaru"&gt;Gregorian Bivolaru&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;21.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirel_R%C4%83doi" title="Mirel Rădoi"&gt;Mirel Rădoi&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;22.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Zelea_Codreanu" title="Corneliu Zelea Codreanu"&gt;Corneliu Zelea Codreanu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;23.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Titulescu" title="Nicolae Titulescu"&gt;Nicolae Titulescu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;24.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_Romania" title="Ferdinand I of Romania"&gt;Ferdinand I of Romania&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;25.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_I" title="Mihai I"&gt;Mihai I&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;26.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decebal" title="Decebal"&gt;Decebal&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;27.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_B%C4%83sescu" title="Traian Băsescu"&gt;Traian Băsescu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;28.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Mure%C5%9Fan" title="Gheorghe Mureşan"&gt;Gheorghe Mureşan&lt;/a&gt;  .... ?&lt;br /&gt;29.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_I._C._Br%C4%83tianu" title="Ion I. C. Brătianu"&gt;Ion I. C. Brătianu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;30.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C4%83zvan_Lucescu" title="Răzvan Lucescu"&gt;Răzvan Lucescu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;31.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Paulescu" title="Nicolae Paulescu"&gt;Nicolae Paulescu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;32.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iuliu_Maniu" title="Iuliu Maniu"&gt;Iuliu Maniu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;33.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iuliu_Hossu" title="Iuliu Hossu"&gt;Iuliu Hossu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;34.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran" title="Emil Cioran"&gt;Emil Cioran&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;35.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avram_Iancu" title="Avram Iancu"&gt;Avram Iancu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;36.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burebista" title="Burebista"&gt;Burebista&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;37.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Maria" title="Regina Maria"&gt;Regina Maria&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;38.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petre_%C5%A2u%C5%A3ea" title="Petre Ţuţea"&gt;Petre Ţuţea&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;39.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Coposu" title="Corneliu Coposu"&gt;Corneliu Coposu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;40.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Vlaicu" title="Aurel Vlaicu"&gt;Aurel Vlaicu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;41.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Trifa" title="Iosif Trifa"&gt;Iosif Trifa&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;42.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichita_St%C4%83nescu" title="Nichita Stănescu"&gt;Nichita Stănescu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;43.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Creang%C4%83" title="Ion Creangă"&gt;Ion Creangă&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;44.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M%C4%83dalina_Manole&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Mădalina Manole (page does not exist)"&gt;Mădalina Manole&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;45.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Vadim_Tudor"&gt;Corneliu Vadim Tudor&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;46.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Vuia" title="Traian Vuia"&gt;Traian Vuia&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;47.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Blaga" title="Lucian Blaga"&gt;Lucian Blaga&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;48.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Emil_Palade" title="George Emil Palade"&gt;George Emil Palade&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;49.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Aslan" title="Ana Aslan"&gt;Ana Aslan&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;50.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Mutu" title="Adrian Mutu"&gt;Adrian Mutu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;51.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Florin_Piersic&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Florin Piersic (page does not exist)"&gt;Florin Piersic&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;52.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Kog%C4%83lniceanu" title="Mihail Kogălniceanu"&gt;Mihail Kogălniceanu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;53.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iancsi_Korossy&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Iancsi Korossy (page does not exist)"&gt;Iancsi Korossy&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;54.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrie_Cantemir" title="Dimitrie Cantemir"&gt;Dimitrie Cantemir&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;55.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilie_N%C4%83stase" title="Ilie Năstase"&gt;Ilie Năstase&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;56.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Zamfir" title="Gheorghe Zamfir"&gt;Gheorghe Zamfir&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;57.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gic%C4%83_Petrescu" title="Gică Petrescu"&gt;Gică Petrescu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;58.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeta_Rizea" title="Elisabeta Rizea"&gt;Elisabeta Rizea&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;59.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bul%C4%83" title="Bulă"&gt;Bulă&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;60.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amza_Pellea" title="Amza Pellea"&gt;Amza Pellea&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;61.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matei_Corvin" title="Matei Corvin"&gt;Matei Corvin&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;62.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mircea_cel_B%C4%83tr%C3%A2n" title="Mircea cel Bătrân"&gt;Mircea cel Bătrân&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;63.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titu_Maiorescu" title="Titu Maiorescu"&gt;Titu Maiorescu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;64.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_Caragiu" title="Toma Caragiu"&gt;Toma Caragiu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;65.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Tr%C4%83istariu" title="Mihai Trăistariu"&gt;Mihai Trăistariu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;66.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreea_Marin" title="Andreea Marin"&gt;Andreea Marin&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;67.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Racovi%C5%A3%C4%83" title="Emil Racoviţă"&gt;Emil Racoviţă&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;68.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Babe%C5%9F" title="Victor Babeş"&gt;Victor Babeş&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;69.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_B%C4%83lcescu" title="Nicolae Bălcescu"&gt;Nicolae Bălcescu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;70.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horia-Roman_Patapievici" title="Horia-Roman Patapievici"&gt;Horia-Roman Patapievici&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;71.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Iliescu" title="Ion Iliescu"&gt;Ion Iliescu&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;72.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin_Preda" title="Marin Preda"&gt;Marin Preda&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;73.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Ionescu" title="Eugen Ionescu"&gt;Eugen Ionescu&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;74.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumitru_St%C4%83niloae" title="Dumitru Stăniloae"&gt;Dumitru Stăniloae&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;75.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Todea" title="Alexandru Todea"&gt;Alexandru Todea&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;76.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Gheorghe" title="Tudor Gheorghe"&gt;Tudor Gheorghe&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;77.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%C5%A2iriac" title="Ion Ţiriac"&gt;Ion Ţiriac&lt;/a&gt; .... A&lt;br /&gt;78.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilie_Cleopa" title="Ilie Cleopa"&gt;Ilie Cleopa&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;79.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenie_Boca" title="Arsenie Boca"&gt;Arsenie Boca&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;80.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%83nel_Nicoli%C5%A3%C4%83" title="Bănel Nicoliţă"&gt;Bănel Nicoliţă&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;81.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dumitru_Cornilescu&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1" title="Dumitru Cornilescu (page does not exist)"&gt;Dumitru Cornilescu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;82.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigore_Moisil" title="Grigore Moisil"&gt;Grigore Moisil&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;83.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudiu_Niculescu" title="Claudiu Niculescu"&gt;Claudiu Niculescu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;84.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentin_Petre" title="Florentin Petre"&gt;Florentin Petre&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;85.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Moga" title="Marius Moga"&gt;Marius Moga&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;86.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Steinhardt" title="Nicolae Steinhardt"&gt;Nicolae Steinhardt&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;87.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Stoica" title="Laura Stoica"&gt;Laura Stoica&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;88.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%83t%C4%83lin_H%C3%A2ldan" title="Cătălin Hâldan"&gt;Cătălin Hâldan&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;89.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anghel_Saligny" title="Anghel Saligny"&gt;Anghel Saligny&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;90.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Patzaichin" title="Ivan Patzaichin"&gt;Ivan Patzaichin&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;91.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_T%C4%83nase" title="Maria Tănase"&gt;Maria Tănase&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;92.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergiu_Nicolaescu" title="Sergiu Nicolaescu"&gt;Sergiu Nicolaescu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;93.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavian_Paler" title="Octavian Paler"&gt;Octavian Paler&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;94.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Eroul Necunoscut - the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Soldier_in_Bucharest" title="Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Bucharest"&gt;Unknown Hero&lt;/a&gt; .... B&lt;br /&gt;95.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprian_Porumbescu" title="Ciprian Porumbescu"&gt;Ciprian Porumbescu&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;96.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicu_Covaci" title="Nicu Covaci"&gt;Nicolae Covaci&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;97.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumitru_Prunariu" title="Dumitru Prunariu"&gt;Dumitru Prunariu&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;98.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iancu_de_Hunedoara" title="Iancu de Hunedoara"&gt;Iancu de Hunedoara&lt;/a&gt; .... a&lt;br /&gt;99.&lt;span style=""&gt;          &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Noica" title="Constantin Noica"&gt;Constantin Noica&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;br /&gt;100.&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badea_C%C3%A2r%C5%A3an" title="Badea Cârţan"&gt;Badea Cârţan&lt;/a&gt; .... ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-1357590538278152017?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/1357590538278152017/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=1357590538278152017&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1357590538278152017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1357590538278152017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/04/reviewing-2006-tvr-list-of-great.html' title='Reviewing the 2006 TVR list of great Romanians'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-1022962469855563778</id><published>2009-04-06T22:33:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.282+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcoming spring</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Welcoming Spring (Phase 1): Martişor Remnants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/martisor-fericit.html"&gt;Martişor&lt;/a&gt;, Romania (1st March)&lt;/span&gt;. As in other cold countries, the joy of having spring coming begins early, when the snow starts melting down: some years, like this one, is already quite warm and there's no snow down the valleys (it mught snow again, though), some other years with cold, long winters there's still snow in March, and it's freezing, but the sun light gets warmer and days become longer anyway, that's unstoppable. And the first wild flowers sprout: in Romanian, that's the ghiocel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First week of March is the week of early celebration of spring in Romania, is Martişor. Apart from ghiocel, women get small presents tied with white-red ribbons to wear that week as &lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3379/3418398797_d4bc08e219.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3379/3418398797_d4bc08e219.jpg?v=0" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 127px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 192px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;lapel pins: those are the martişoare. After that week martişoare are tied in trees, tokens calling for the spring to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These ones at Cişmigiu certainly succeeded!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/3419208620_fc3533b1c4.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/3419208620_fc3533b1c4.jpg?v=0" style="cursor: pointer; height: 127px; width: 192px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3418398589_defa3573d4.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3418398589_defa3573d4.jpg?v=0" style="cursor: pointer; height: 127px; width: 192px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Welcoming Spring (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Phase 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;): Palm Sunday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3648/3418407889_5951d555b4.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3648/3418407889_5951d555b4.jpg?v=0" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 176px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 117px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Catholic and Orthodox Palm Sunday, Romania (5th April and 12th April). The flowers to be offered and blessed in such a date are beautiful, brief symbols of early spring: fragile narcisus and this brownish branch with cotton buttons that I've seen both here and also in Russia, but always in bouquets... So I still don't know which bush or tree is, and which kind of flowers or fruits are born after that soft shoots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;coming Spring (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Phase 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;): Easter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Orthodox Easter, Romania (still to come -19th April-)&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;1. Painted eggs. &lt;/span&gt;They still keep the tradition, no fake. (Well, not only fake...). This craftmade one is pretty, but maybe the funniest thing &lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3612/3419225128_a516ac8fd8.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3612/3419225128_a516ac8fd8.jpg?v=0" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 176px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 117px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've seen here is a common tray of eggs with painted ones at Carrefour. Perfect for busy Mommies and Daddies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;2. Lumina. &lt;/span&gt;On Holy Friday night, you go to the church with a candle. The Pope bless the first fire and then the light passes from one people to the next, in a lighting row that is worth seeing. You have to keep it lit until you get home, and let it to extinguish by itself: your house will be blessed the whole year. The rite starts at midnight more or less, but Mass goes on all night, so you can get your light at any time. And the next morning there's some holy breakfast, also... What I liked the most last year was the mixture between religious fervour and pagan joy, between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve: praying and quiet people near the Pope, inside the tiny churches, and noisy families and young people waiting outside, chatting and eating seeds, waiting their candle to be lit to go home and then, in the case of young people, to go out and party.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-1022962469855563778?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/1022962469855563778/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=1022962469855563778&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1022962469855563778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1022962469855563778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/04/welcoming-spring.html' title='Welcoming spring'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2659691409371226875</id><published>2009-04-04T17:54:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.388+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Maneaua ucide (Manea can kill)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I can't leave Romania without dedicating a post to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manele"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (sg. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;manea&lt;/span&gt;), a musical trend that is, in relation with Balkan folk music, the same as Reggaeton in relation with salsa. And both &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manele &lt;/span&gt;and Reggaeton are social fenomena that go well beyond the music to create around them a subculture, a way of dressing, a way of thinking and a scale of values.&lt;br /&gt;Loud and gross taxi music usually is much more than music, and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manele &lt;/span&gt;certainly is loud and gross.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manelişti &lt;/span&gt;(&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manele &lt;/span&gt;singers) are as recognizable as hip hop singers are. Men usually wear bright unbottoned shirts, gold chains and rings,  coulour suits and sunglasses.&lt;br /&gt;Men and boys, I should say, because there's quite a few "baby singers": eight, ten, twelve -year-old &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manelişti minunaţi&lt;/span&gt; (wonderful &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manele &lt;/span&gt;singers) singing stories on power, money and sexy girls... and dancing surrounded by that very sexy girls in videoclips that are everything but for children.&lt;br /&gt;So there's &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manele &lt;/span&gt;singers of all ages... I think the oonly thing that changes in their loooks with the time is the growing beer belly.&lt;br /&gt;And there's also femenine &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manele &lt;/span&gt;stars, not only sexy chorus girls. Both the sexy chorus and the singers have a similar look: straight hair, long and frequently dyed white blonde or crow black; huge earring hoops on the ears; blinding clothes with broad necklines; tiny miniskirts or tight pants. I would say that singers usually are dressed in a more modest way than chorus girls (that is, they show less of their boobs).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manele videos have a karaoke, home-made style. Banknotes, cars and girls are frequent motifs,  sometimes in a verz popular environment (country roads and Romanian villages), sometimes in luxurious saloons and pools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And lyrics? Well, apart from love (that is a recurrent theme in every musical genre), I would say that &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manelişti &lt;/span&gt;sing mainly about success and/or community values: pretty girls and nice cars.,on the one side, and community life and happiness at home, on the other. Quite a mixture...&lt;br /&gt;There's quite a few of songs that talk about easy success: the singer boasts about being rich without working, for example.&lt;br /&gt;And, as it happens to rap lyrics, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;manele &lt;/span&gt;lyrics are very much influenced by current events; songs about emigration (about coming back rich, about getting rich there without working, about prefering to stay in Romania to leave the country), and there's already more than one &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;manea&lt;/span&gt; on the financial crisis... So you can't say that &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;manele &lt;/span&gt;is not dynamic!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I think it's better to let the images to speak by themselves. No matter if you don't understand the lyrics: myself, I began to be amazed by this videos when i couldn't understand a word...&lt;br /&gt;Just some examples, but in Youtube you can find videos enough to entertain yourself a long time... So you can become a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;manele &lt;/span&gt;fan abroad, no matter if you don't have access to the Manele TV channels that exist in Romania!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nicolae Guta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most popular &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;manelist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; A couple of songs: "You haven't got courage" and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; a fragment of "European Gipsy" ("even if I go on holidays I make money from the distance...").&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kk8bb-E1WxA&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kk8bb-E1WxA&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2ghzniB47uk&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2ghzniB47uk&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;Criza financiara, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;by Stefan &amp;amp; Narcis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;"They say that there's a financial crisis, but I don't care, as it doesn't affect me..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sLJ5Xt38HE0&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sLJ5Xt38HE0&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mihaela Minune&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &amp;amp; DJ Willy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Be careful, the wolf comes...". Sung in duet together with a rapper; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;manele &lt;/span&gt;is, above all, a party, and duets are frequent, between &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;manele &lt;/span&gt;artists but also with hip hop and reggaeton ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q0aj3csVOgc&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q0aj3csVOgc&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Adrian, Copilul Minunat / Adi de Vito&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adrian, "the wonderdul child" got older but not taller... So he changed his artistic name to Adi de Vito (because of his Danny de Vito looks) and went on singing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EiYI-XB9_gE&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EiYI-XB9_gE&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Babi Minune &amp;amp; Denisa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The wonderful baby", the current heir of so many Manele children, such as Copilul Minunat or Copilul de Aur (The Golden child). Here you have a love song with worrying difference of age between lovers...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zSesQB7EgdQ&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zSesQB7EgdQ&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2659691409371226875?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2659691409371226875/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2659691409371226875&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2659691409371226875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2659691409371226875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/04/maneaua-ucide-manea-can-kill.html' title='Maneaua ucide (Manea can kill)'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-8405213374319750073</id><published>2009-04-02T18:50:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.746+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Estereotipos regionales</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Me resultan muy curiosos los estereotipos nacionales; como el horóscopo, aunque no me los crea está bien conocerlos. Y realmente, si conoces los estereotipos nacionales entiendes mucho mejor el país o determinadas reacciones de la gente, o aspectos de cultura general. Cuatro ejemplos rumanos que me vienen a la mente:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;gitanos&lt;/span&gt;. Los mismos estereotipos que en España, pero más acusados, o más verbalizados. Resulta paradójico estar en un país en el que se insiste muchísimo en trazar la línea entre gitano y no gitano, mientras que su imagen país en el exterior se asocia altamente con el sector más marginal de los gitanos, a pesar de los miles de rumanos no gitanos y gitanos no marginales que viven en España, Italia...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;húngaros&lt;/span&gt;. La verdad es que no me ha quedado claro todavía qué significa ser húngaro en Rumania... Recuerdo un comentario que me hicieron sobre el anterior ministro de Obras Públicas y Desarrollo Local, László Borbély, en una conferencia: "pero ten en cuenta que es húngaro". No me quedó claro exactamente cuál era el peligro, pero había un peligro... El tono era negativo. El origen de esta mala vecindad está, claro, en la historia y el territorio: húngaros en todo el norte de Transilvania y dejando huella en Cluj-Napoca y Targu Mures, y rumanos en el sur de Hungría.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Los habitantes de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Argés&lt;/span&gt;. Protagonistas, junto con las rubias, de los chistes sobre tonos, llevándose la palma, por tanto, las rubias de Argés.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Las &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;moldavas &lt;/span&gt;(de República de Moldavia). Muy guapas, dicen unos, muy putas, dicen otros. Similar al estereotipo de las ucranianas en Rusia, y a esa gradación "mediterránea" que puntúa a portuguesas, italianas, españolas y francesas según grado de "frescura"...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;¿Y los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;moldavos&lt;/span&gt;? [Antes de continuar, debo aclarar que Moldavia es el nombre de un Estado independiente, y también de la región rumana que colinda con él, a la que me refiero ahora mismo, y en referencia a la cual la franja lingüísticamente rumana de Moldavia, reclamada por los irredentistas, se denomina Bararabia]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Y los moldavos? Recientemente estuve en &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Iaşi&lt;/span&gt;, una de las tres ciudades (Timişoara, Cluj-Napoca y Iaşi) que se disputan el puesto en el ranking de principales ciudades de Rumania, después del indiscutible primer lugar de Bucarest. Iaşi, la ciudad de los tilos, las 365 iglesias y las 7 colinas, el segundo centro universitario después de Bucarest, es una ciudad con mucha historia, sede del patriarcado de Moldavia, sede del gobierno rumano durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y lugar donde se firmó la unidad entre los tres principados rumanos (Valaquia, Moldavia y transilvania). Pero es también la principal ciudad de Moldavia, que es la región más pobre de Rumania, y que presenta peores indicadores macroeconómicos y un peor (si cabe) de las infraestructuras de comunicaciones. Por eso, contándole a un conocido rumano lo mucho que me había gustado la ciudad, que tiene algo del caos de Bucarest pero un encanto especial en sus calles, le comenté también lo que me había sorprendido el dinamismo de la ciudad, no sólo a nivel de calle, sino de las reuniones y entrevistas de trabajo que había mantenido. Y mi conocido me respondió con un "normal, son moldavos"; cosa que a mí me sorprendió, ya que asumía un estereotipo similar al de los andaluces (Iasi-Sevilla), reservando la seriedad y el dinamismo a la parte "que funciona bien", la sajona &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Timis &lt;/span&gt;y la húngara &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cluj &lt;/span&gt;(Cluj-Barcelona).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero no, resulta que el tópico, que mi conocido me explicó,  es que:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;valaquios &lt;/span&gt;son "viva la virgen" y caóticos (yo les aplicaría el estereotipo de balcánicos...).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;los de Cluj (¿&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;transilvanos&lt;/span&gt;, húngaro-transilvanos?) no acaban de concretar, hablan mucho y hacen poco.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;moldavos &lt;/span&gt;no son muy listos pero trabajan con perseverancia y sacan las cosas bien y rápido.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Me resultó muy curioso este tópico, que no corresponde con una situación política o socioeconómica de base que habitualmente es el punto de partida que se distorsiona y del que se hacen extrapolaciones y simplificaciones, igual que los mitos surgen de la hechos históricos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero recuerdo a todas esas viejas de ochenta años yendo en bicicleta cuesta arriba que vi por los pueblos de Moldavia en verano, y bueno, la verdad es que la perseverancia, ciertamente, la cultivan...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-8405213374319750073?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/8405213374319750073/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=8405213374319750073&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8405213374319750073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8405213374319750073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/04/estereotipos-regionales.html' title='Estereotipos regionales'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7303417690068891194</id><published>2009-03-29T20:53:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.657+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Romanian street cuisine / Gastronomía callejera</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One sunny day you jump out of bed and to the streets, meet some friends, wander around, not willing to stop to eat long in any place, going from here to there, recovering your strenght with little bits of this and that... Let me introduce you some typical Romanian these and those:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;Un domingo soleado te levantas de la cama con ganas de tomar las calles, llamas a algunos amigos y os dedicáis a pasear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt; sin rumbo, tal vez a hacer alguna foto, a bromear y observar, sin ganas de parar a comer en ninguna parte y rom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;eper el ritmo, picando alguna cosa aquí y allá. Dejadme que os cuente algunas de las cosas curiosas que puedes comer por la calle sin pararte mucho:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Covrig&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://casadecomenzi-tm.ro/images/covrigiCuSusanPatiserie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 97px;" src="http://casadecomenzi-tm.ro/images/covrigiCuSusanPatiserie.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's a piece of salted bread similar to the german pretzel. You can find it at street stalls of in small shops calles "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;covrigerie&lt;/span&gt;". No wonder that the best ones can be found at villages, cooked using the oil from frying sausages... You can buy a whole ring-shape buch of them, tied with a cord, or sometimes bigger lace-shape ones, by units.  They can be sweet, but the good ones are salty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.remina.ro/imagini_files/covrigi_80g_100_75.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 92px;" src="http://www.remina.ro/imagini_files/covrigi_80g_100_75.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;Se trata de u&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;n pedazo de pan salado y aderezado similar al pretzel alemán, que se vende o bien en puesto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;s callejeros o en pequeñas tiendas "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;covrigerie&lt;/span&gt;". Como todo en esta vida, los mejore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;s son los que se venden en los pueblos, cocinados reutilizando el aceite de freir chorizos... A veces se hacen circulares, y se venden atados con una cuerda, como un collar; otras, tiene form&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;a de lazo y se venden por unidades. Pueden ser dulces, peor los buenos son los salados.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Gogoaşa:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.afaceri-francize.ro/articole/med/1212497516.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 93px;" src="http://www.afaceri-francize.ro/articole/med/1212497516.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Romanian doughnut: usually no hole but filling. Sold, amongst other places, in a "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;gogoşerie&lt;/span&gt;"... Romanian sweets are quite good, try &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;placinta cu mere sau branza&lt;/span&gt; (apple or cheese pie), revisited chocolate cakes of German or French inspiration, the different kinds of the sweet bread called &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;cozonac&lt;/span&gt;... And of course, the a fried cheese doughnut called &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;papanaşi &lt;/span&gt;(plural, as it's served in pairs); this one is a hot dessert, though, not a street one, that takes 20 minutes to be ready. One important thing is that the Romanian bakery shops selling home-made products look like industrial bakery shops to an unaccostumed eye... No matter how ugly might be the shop, if there's a&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; laborator propriu&lt;/span&gt; sign, you might give a try...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sc_MNn-odtI/AAAAAAAAAh8/CrwejxxGmbc/s1600-h/20090315_1484.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sc_MNn-odtI/AAAAAAAAAh8/CrwejxxGmbc/s200/20090315_1484.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318694219389892306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;El donuts rumano, aunque más a menudo relleno que con agujero. Se vende en las "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;gogoşerie&lt;/span&gt;", pero también en panaderías y p[astelerías en general. Los dulces rumanos son bastante buenos, desde los pasteles de manzana o de queso (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;placinta cu mere / cu branza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt; a estupendas tartas de chocolate de inspiración germana o francesa pero con un  toque local, o plumcakes llamados &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;cozonac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;. Probablemente el postre más especial son los &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;papanaşi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;, unos donuts calientes de queso que se sirven en parejas; aunque este es un postre caliente que tarda 20 minutos en hacerse y no se encuentra en puestos callejeros, lógicamente. A la hora de compra dulces es importantes saber que en Rumania las buenas pastelerías no son necesariamente las bien arregladas, más bien todo lo contrario; las pastelerías artesanas parecen, para el observador no habituado, tiendas de bollería industrial. Así que, aunque ka tienda sea fea, si tiene un cartel de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt; laborator propriu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;, merece la pena probar...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mici (cu bere/limonad):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.servingromania.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mici.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 136px; height: 102px;" src="http://www.servingromania.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mici.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mici are fried minced meat prepared with cylindrical shape... Appart from restaurants, during summer, you can try them in every park, river side or terrace. They can be very tasty or awful, as it happens with this kind of food... specially as they cointain a very particular "secret" ingredient that if abused is everything but easy: sodium bicarbonate. A fresh local &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;beer &lt;/span&gt;(Ursus, Ciuc, Silva...) suits them very well. Or a lemonade... That great Romanian &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;lemonade&lt;/span&gt;, with honey instead of sugar, an upgraded recipe that will come with me, for sure, in my way back home...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.w-co.co.uk/img/portfolio/ursus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://www.w-co.co.uk/img/portfolio/ursus.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;Son unas albóndigas de forma cilíndrica que puede pedir no sólo en restaurantes, sino en cualquier terraza en el verano, en parques, plazas o lagos. Como suele pasar con este tipo de comida, pueden estar muy sabrosos o terrioblemente malos... Especialmente si se tiene en cuenta que uno de sus ingredientes es el bicarbonato sódico, que será bueno para la digestión, pero cuidado con la dosis... Como acompañamiento, no está mal una buena &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cerveza &lt;/span&gt;local (Ursus, Ciuc, Silva...), o una &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;limonada con miel&lt;/span&gt;. Parecerá una tontería, pero echar miel en vez de azúcar a la limonada ha sido un descubrimiento que no olvidaré, y que viajará conmigo de vuelta a España...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7303417690068891194?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7303417690068891194/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7303417690068891194&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7303417690068891194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7303417690068891194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/some-romanian-street-cuisine.html' title='Some Romanian street cuisine / Gastronomía callejera'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sc_MNn-odtI/AAAAAAAAAh8/CrwejxxGmbc/s72-c/20090315_1484.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-3481827462624843582</id><published>2009-03-26T22:53:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.435+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Algunos cables imposibles / Some impossible cables</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Bucharest city, anywhere, anytime....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Bucarest, en cualquier sitio, en cualquier lugar...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Around 80% of all these cables are Telco-related (Telephone, Internet, Cable TV): good news! You won't get electrocuted!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Aproximadamente el 80% de estos cables son de transmisión de datos (telefonía, Internet, televisión por cable). Son buenas noticias, ¿verdad? ¡Al menos no corres peligro de electrocutarte!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The project of burying all cables in the Sector 1 City centre was in the programme of the former City Mayor; that is, it was supposed to be implemented in 2005-2008. I've been told by different sources that this is THE year. I've been told by vaious sources that the works DID START. Y haven't seen them with my own eyes yet, though.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;El proyecto de sorterrar el cableado fue una promesa electoral del anterior equipo municipal quedebería haberse llevado a cabo entre 2005 y 2008, pero no fue así. Me han dicho varias personas que durante 2009 se llevar;á a cabo por fin. Me han dicho que ya han empezado los trabajos. Yo no los he visto todavía con mis propios ojos, no puedo confirmarlo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;City centre, Sector 1... And beyond?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Centro ciudad, sector 1... ¿Y más allá?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3272204387_8e89d02ff9.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 106px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3272204387_8e89d02ff9.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/2895548259_36b7429c98.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 106px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/2895548259_36b7429c98.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2904423899_e3a9c7984b.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; 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que acaba de explotar esta mañana, con un toque de especulación inmobiliaria, políticos de todo tipo salpicados, ricos en la sombra sin foto en los periódicos, implicación de los servicios secretos, Gigi Becalli adornando el pastel, esta vez desde el otro lado de la barrera...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero la verdad es que quería hablar de otra cosa, porque  no he hehco los deberes esta semana, y llevo desde hace una semana un recorte de prensa en el bolsillo, una noticia que me dio mucho que pensar, y me confirmó bastantes cosas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La noticia, del 20 de marzo, informaba de la &lt;a href="http://www.zf.ro/eveniment/sarbu-a-demis-60-de-directori-ai-apia-4064138/"&gt;destitución por parte del Ministro de Agricultura de 60 directores regionales de la APIA&lt;/a&gt;, la Agencia de Pagos e Intervención en Agricultura, encargada de hacer efectivas las subvenciones estatales y europeas al sector agrícola.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque no sigo la cuestión de la política agraria con la atención que he seguido la absorción por parte de Rumania de otros fondos europeos, hace tiempo que sospechaba que no debía estar funcionando la cosa muy bien, porque no era normal que no me hubiera encontrado anuncios o noticias al respecto. Así que la noticia, aun con un titular tan pesado, me interesaba, esperando poder leer algunos datos al respecto... Pero no me esperaba leer tanto entre líneas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La razón de la destitución, efectivamente, tenía que ver con la incapacidad de gestionar los fondos... ¿O no? Dice el ministro, Constantin Sarbu, que ha destituido los 60 directores de la APIA "porque no han respetado el plazo establecido el 15 de marzo para empezar a pagar las subvenciones por hectárea. Les hemos dado cuatro días, pero me han dicho que necesitaban tres semanas". No sé quién tiene la razón, pero o bien acabo de encontrar un contubernio judeo-masónico de los que le gustaban tanto a Franco, o bien hay algo que no funciona, ya sea la decisión política (cuatro días siendo un plazo imposible de cumplir) o el engranaje administrativo. Pero en este último caso, ¿no habría que resolver el problema estructural de funcionamiento, y no despedir a 60 cargos directivos de carácter técnico?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sigo leyendo, y pensando, y me encuentro con un párrafo explosivo, en el que se cuenta lo siguiente que el director de la APIA dimitió el 12 de febrero debido a "ingerencias políticas en una actividad estrictamente técnica", y que esta semana se va a abrir el segundo concuros para la selección de su sustituto, ya que el primero, que tuvo lugar a finales de febrero, quedó desierto, ya que no se presentó ningún candidato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NINGÚN CANDIDATO. Si me quedaba alguna duda de la posible injerencia política, este dato es absolutamente esclarecedor: qué cantidad de veneno contendrá un pastel que nadie se atreve a probar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El detonante de todo, efectivamente, ha sido la pérdida de parte del dinero asignado por Europa en esta materia, y basta con conocer los datos que se muestran en el último párrafo del artículo. Cada año se deben hacer efectivas antes del 30 de junio las subvenciones por hectárea correspondientes a la anualidad anterior, perdiendo Rumania el dinero que no se capaz de distrubuir antes de esta fecha. Rumania fue penalizada por un valor de 8,4 millones de euros por las subvenciones correspondientes a la anualidad de 2007 que no fue capaz de hacer efectivas antes de 30 de junio de 2008... ¿Qué pasará con la anualidad de 2008, tras tres meses de parálisis política y administrativa entre las elecciones parlamentarias de principios de diciembre y la aprobación de los presupuestos generales del Estado ya entrado marzo? Los pagos no han empezado a hacerse efectivos... ¿Acelerará el proceso la destitución en masa de cuadros directivos? Lo dudo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y lo más grave es que no es un caso aislado. Recuerdo ahora mismo dos casos de dimisiones significativas. La primera, la más pública y flagrante, que llegó a tener reflejo en medios internacionales, fue la &lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/conservador/Emil/Boc/sera/nuevo/primer/ministro/Rumania/elpepuint/20081215elpepuint_12/Tes"&gt;renuncia de Teodor Stolojan a presentarse a la investidura como Primer Ministro tan sólo cinco días después de haber sido anunciada su designación&lt;/a&gt; (11-16 diciembre de 2008). Más víboras de las previstas debían vivir en el nido...  &lt;a href="http://www.mediafax.ro/engleza/romanian-interior-minister-resigns.html?6966;3855461"&gt;La segunda dimisión fue la del Ministro del Interior, Liviu Dragnea&lt;/a&gt;, el 2 de febrero de 2009, dos semanas después de su nombramiento el 20 de enero del mismo año. Liviu Dragnea basó su decisión, fundamentalmente, en la imposibilidad de asumir y llevar a cabo sus proyectos como ministro con la baja financiación asignada al ministerio; sin embargo, la mención también de las tensiones en la coalición de gobierno asociaba a su decisión también un elemento de injerencia política en la puesta en marcha de un programa que, es de suponer, diez días antes, en el momento de su nombramiento, alguien había respaldado, pero ya no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No hay declaración pública del gobierno actual en la que no se mencione, antes de entrar en temas más actruales, en los errores del gobierno anterior y la carga que suponen para éste. La oposición no ha dejado al gobienro actual los 100 días de rigor al gobierno actual antes de iniciar su ataque. La maquinaria administrativa sólo en marzo ha retomado la marcha, lentamente, tras tres meses de parón; el ambiente político no se ha enfriado, ni se va a enfriar en los próximos meses, ya que hay elecciones presidenciales en otoño.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este año pinta mal en Rumania, y una legislatura que pierde un año difícilmente se recupera, y el reloj 2007-2013 sigue su curso. Van pasando esos seis años que se le ha dado a Rumania para recorrer el camino que otros países recorrimos en 15 ó 20 años...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5814069177946911808?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5814069177946911808/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5814069177946911808&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5814069177946911808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5814069177946911808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/comentario-de-textos.html' title='Comentario de textos'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7248918724106231382</id><published>2009-03-22T10:35:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.650+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Prosperidad y trabajo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fin de semana en Madrid, paseando por la calles, disfrutando de unas tapas, disfrutando de algo de sol. Como siempre, admirándome ahora de escuchar en todas partes fragmentos de conversaciones en rumano que antes me pasaban desapercibidas, de maravillarme de lo absolutamente indistinguibles que son los cientos de miles de rumanos que viven en Madrid, que en el imaginario colectivo español, lamentablemente, se representan habitualmente con la apariencia y actitudes de los gitanos zíngaros mendicantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imaginarios colectivos. Envidia, celos, amargura, falsos culpables. Gitanos zíngaros mendicantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En el vagón del metro, como es bastante habitual, entra una muchacha zíngara con un niño en brazos, rostro moreno y tiznado, pelo despeinado, falda amplia y colorida, jersey desparejado. Inicia su cantinela: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;no-ten-go-ca-sa, no-ten-go-tra-ba-jo, no-ten-go-di-ne-ro, soy una chica pobre-ci-ta, ayúdenme...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recorre el vagón y se queda en la puerta esperando la siguiente parada, justo al lado de la fila de asientos en la que estoy sentada. Se acerca un español de unos treinta y cinco o cuarenta años, que también va a bajarse en la siguiente estación, y dice:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;- ¿De donde eres? ¿Rumana, no?&lt;br /&gt;- (...)&lt;br /&gt;- Pues ahora hay más trabajo en Rumania que aquí.&lt;br /&gt;- (...)&lt;br /&gt;- Sí, te lo digo yo, hay más trabajo en Rumania. Porque nos habéis arruinado.  Hay más trabajo. Rumania es ahora más próspera que España.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se abren las puertas, y se baja la gitana mendicante, con su niño y su falda, igualita a la zíngara mendicante que se sienta todos los días a pedir cerca de mi casa en Bucarest, camino del mercado de Piata Amzei. Igual de igualita que las otras gitanas rumanas lo son a las otras gitanas españolas, como las gitanas que viven en la parte vieja del centro histórico, con sus matas de pelo negro, sus aros dorados en las orejas y sus vaqueros embutidos que me recuerdan a la gitanas de barrio españolas cuando gritan a sus niños desde las ventanas del último piso para que dejen de jugar y trastear y suban a casa, hagan recados, obedezcan... Igual  de igualitos a los españoles que son los rumanos que evitan a unas y a las otras, y le dicen a sus niños que "no hagan gitanadas" (nu faceţi ţiganie). Dos comunidades viviendo en paralelo como nosotros en España, si bien es cierto que en España ya no está bien visto decir cosas que en Rumania se afirman sin ningún rubor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y se baja el hombre preocupado por la crisis, amargado, probablemente algo aliviado de poder echarles la culpa a "ellos", reclamándoles a "ellos" que devuelvan su parte del pastel que nos repartimos todos en tiempos de bonanza. Bonanza que también "ellos" ayudaron a construir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y yo me quedo pensativa y melancólica... Porque ojalá, por qué no, Rumania fuera más próspera, o al menos igual de próspera que España.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero me temo que para alcanzar la prosperidad se necesitan muchos años de abundancia de trabajo, y bastantes otras cosas... Entre otras, confianza en el futuro del propio país, una cosa que, lamentablemente, los rumanos no acaban de adquirir. Y sin ella, construir la prosperidad es muy difícil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7248918724106231382?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7248918724106231382/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7248918724106231382&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7248918724106231382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7248918724106231382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/trabajo-y-prosperidad.html' title='Prosperidad y trabajo'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7895531786352720834</id><published>2009-03-19T22:44:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.690+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Separación de residuos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Rumania es un país maximalista, que lo quiere todo y ya, lo que en la peculiar forma de caos burocrático en la que se opera aqui a menudo, puede resultar en no obtener nada y nunca. Esto de ser maximalista les pasa, pienso a veces, a casi todos los países que alguna vez fueron imperio, sea en el siglo  III a.C., XV o XX, queda en el subconsciente colectivo la idea de que se puede obtener todo, una idea construida sobre un espejismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿A que viene esto? Bueno, esta semana en concreto me vino la idea a la cabeza con el tema del reciclado de desechos. Resumo el contexto de forma muy breve: en Rumania no se reciclan los desechos, no hay plantas de tratamiento de residuos urbanos ni de tratamiento de aguas. Hace un par de semanas la Unión Europea publicó una comparativa a nivel europeo en estos temas y Rumania estaba en la cola en todos los rankings. Pero tranquilos,  sólo hay que confiar en las previsiones del gobierno, que no he visto, pero sospecho que, como en todos estos temas de integración europea (estadísticas sobre inclusión digital o kilómetros de la red de infraestructuras de comunicaciones), consistirán alcanzar la media europea para 2013 y rebasarla para 2025.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y ahí estan el Plan Operativo Regional, con una porrada de dinero procedente de fondos FEDER dirigido a la financiación de infraestructuras públicas (25.000 millones de euros entre 2007 y 2013), entre ellos infraestructuras medioambientales. Y ahí están los lobbies político-empresariales de turno, dificultando algunos de estos proyectos, si no se sitúan en un suelo de propiedad "adecuada"... (Otros no están saliendo por problemas de gestión y de inercia... como a pesar de mi tomo soy optimista, espero que la rueda empiece a girar d eun momento a otro...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Reducción de la producción de residuos? Hace alrededor de un mes se ha impuesto a las bolsas de plástico una tasa de 0,20 bani de obligado cobro al cliente que las quiera. No tengo nada que objetar, me parece bien; aunque tanto aquí como en el resto de Europa estoy esperando a que prohíban (y no promuevan) empaquetar los alimentos en miles de capas como si fueran muñecas rusas (un plástico que rodea 3 cajas de cartón de galletas, cada una con una bolsa de plástico que rodea 10 paquetes de plástico de 5 galletas cada una).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y luego está el tema de la separación de residuos para su futuro reciclado. No sé en Timisoara o en Cluj, pero en Bucarest hace menos de un año que han aparecido contenedores municipales para cristal, plásticos y cartones. Ya sé que no se recicla (¿se recicla en Madrid ya? durante años separamos basura que se mezclaba luego en el camión  para ir acostumbrándonos, y la verdad es que to personalmente estoy domesticada, pero no sé si finalmente sirve ya por fin para algo). Bueno, como he dicho, yo estoy domesticada, así que cuando vi los contenedores relativamente cerca de mi casa me dio un vuelco el corazón y se me quitó la culpabilidad medioambiental de contaminar por 2,5 planetas o más. Y nada, allí fui yo tan feliz con mis bolsas, para encontrarme que los contenedores de cristal y de plástico tienen unas ranuras redondas en la tapa de un tamaño tal que los tarros de cristal y los desechos de plástico irregulares no hay manera de hacerlos pasar. Ni siquiera un botella de 2 litros de plástico pasa... Así que abandoné el reciclaje, y ahora sólo reciclo el papel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/3009803649_71013031f8.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 189px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/3009803649_71013031f8.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Respecto a tirar un embalaje, un electrodoméstico de pequeno tamaño roto, un mueble... Lo único que se puede hacer es dejarlo en la calle y esperar a que el camión de la basura se lo lleve cuando pase. No he visto contenedores de escombros, de esos que a veces se aprovechan (incorrectamente, lo sé) para eso ni siquiera en todas las obras de construcción. La basura en algunos bloques también se baja y se deja apoyada en una farola hasta que llegue el camión; el problema es cuando no tienes claro qué día de la semana pasa... En ese caso se trata de fijarse, y cuando las bolsas de basura empiezas a aparecer como setas, bajar la propia Yo de esto me libro, porque mi casa tiene "tobogán": una tubería por la que se tira la basura de cada piso al contenedor, que está abajo y que alguien se ocupa de sacar. En ruso se llama "tubería de basura", en España no he visto nunca una, así que no sé si tiene nombre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aun así, son maximalistas, y ponen unas normas imposibles, para que sean cumplidas en el Bucarest ideal de sus sueños. Así que esta semana la administradora de mi bloque ha puesto el siguiente cartel en la puerta de cuarto de basuras (o mejor dicho del balcón de basuras, que da al tobogán):&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Estimados vecinos: no introduzcan en el tobogán&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Objetos voluminosos, embalajes grandes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cartones, diarios, revistas.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Botellas de plástico.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Piezas de madera.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Botes y botellas de cristal.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bolsas de plástico con mucha basura o con objetos diversos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Escombros.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;No vuelquen líquidos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;¡Sean limpios!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No taponen el edificio con basura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todas estas normas son para la salud, el bienestar y el confort de todos nosotros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muchas gracias,&lt;br /&gt;La Administración&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/ScLGNv7qEyI/AAAAAAAAAh0/UVJjr-wCg-E/s1600-h/17032009197.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/ScLGNv7qEyI/AAAAAAAAAh0/UVJjr-wCg-E/s320/17032009197.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315028449757893410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Y ahora me pregunto qué demonios se puede tirar por el tobogán, y qué demonios harán mis vecinos con su basura, que supongo que será, como la mía, totalmente irregular y con bastantes elementos que no permitidos en el tobogán y que no caben en las ranuras de los contenedores de reciclado. Aunque a lo mejor no sólo genero 2,5 planetas de basura, sino que encima se trata de basura especialmente poco civilizada...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero es que son maximalistas. O todo o nada. O nada con apariencia de todo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2896385170_82755f4df1.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 249px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2896385170_82755f4df1.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1355/3267451108_222b7fcf77.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 249px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1355/3267451108_222b7fcf77.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7895531786352720834?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7895531786352720834/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7895531786352720834&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7895531786352720834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7895531786352720834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/separacion-de-residuos.html' title='Separación de residuos'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/ScLGNv7qEyI/AAAAAAAAAh0/UVJjr-wCg-E/s72-c/17032009197.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-1549715575606241358</id><published>2009-03-17T21:50:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.302+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's go parking (your car)!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Bucharest lacks parking places, a recklessly handled situation that brings, as consequence, that cars are in fact parked everywhere, in every corner and on every inch of the pathways, and we pedestrians are thrown to the roadway. Piaţa Victoriei, the heart of the city, is in fact a huge parking lot that is only cleared of cars when some kind of festival or screen event (the European Football Cup, for example) is organised in it. Bicycle pathways (full of holes in most sections anyway) are blocked by parked cars, and therefore useless.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But despite this chaotic parking, there's still parking problems, and in some spots you find quite orginal "privatized" parking places. You can use, for example, some kind of box to block "your" place in front of the shop you own, or the office you work at. Or you can write your car's plate number on the pavement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3320/3345181634_cb35b69af4.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 134px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3320/3345181634_cb35b69af4.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/ScATmJEe3QI/AAAAAAAAAhs/a_6YkI7Jmoo/s1600-h/20090117_1021_AparcamientoReservado.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/ScATmJEe3QI/AAAAAAAAAhs/a_6YkI7Jmoo/s200/20090117_1021_AparcamientoReservado.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314269106287860994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;And be careful, because if you ignore reserved parking places and you p&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/ScASuSA8WpI/AAAAAAAAAhU/oRWDc9U5xs0/s1600-h/17032009194.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/ScASuSA8WpI/AAAAAAAAAhU/oRWDc9U5xs0/s200/17032009194.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314268146616261266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ark anyway, you could have your car removed, using the "Bucharest way". They won't calling a car crane (has anyone seen a crane around here, by the way?), but they will warn you by raining the windscreen wipers. If you ignore that signal, or just didn't notice because didn't use your car in a couple of days, you'll find your tyres slashed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chaotic city... Sometimes it's not even clear why one car, like this red one at the photo, deserves slashing while others in the same situation, like are consider "well parked". Misteries of urban life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-1549715575606241358?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/1549715575606241358/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=1549715575606241358&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1549715575606241358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1549715575606241358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/lets-go-parking-your-car.html' title='Let&apos;s go parking (your car)!'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/ScATmJEe3QI/AAAAAAAAAhs/a_6YkI7Jmoo/s72-c/20090117_1021_AparcamientoReservado.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-4276335617006790020</id><published>2009-03-14T14:13:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.488+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest taxis'/><title type='text'>Taxi driver</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I don't like taxis very much, I never did, but I must take quite a few around here, for work. Yesterday, while I was paying a 9 lei ride with a 10 lei note a receiving my change back, I thought I should write something about taxis in Bucharest here. Taxis, in any place, in any city, are often a headache and many times also a curiosity and a source of anecdotes. Bucharest doesn't stand out of this rule.&lt;br /&gt;Yes, you that live in Bucharest and know what's this post about, you read it right: I received my change back. I might be the only person in Bucharest that has no much struggle with taxi drivers, appart from a couple of airport-related experiences of little importance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;First of all, you must know that Bucharest &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;taxi cabs are yellow, abundant and cheap&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbuzaRPgSXI/AAAAAAAAAf0/kHTC_Dz56Bs/s1600-h/20090314_1472_Taxis_MihaiKolganiceanu.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313037449300035954" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbuzaRPgSXI/AAAAAAAAAf0/kHTC_Dz56Bs/s200/20090314_1472_Taxis_MihaiKolganiceanu.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; height: 85px; width: 128px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3376/3316561793_f265150aa7.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3376/3316561793_f265150aa7.jpg?v=0" style="cursor: pointer; height: 84px; width: 55px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbvHa_3zGzI/AAAAAAAAAhM/Yue9XM3MIbA/s1600-h/Taxi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313059452049627954" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbvHa_3zGzI/AAAAAAAAAhM/Yue9XM3MIbA/s200/Taxi.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 84px; width: 151px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4HA4DfwI/AAAAAAAAAgM/N92SZYCYcbI/s1600-h/Cobalcescu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313042616047337218" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4HA4DfwI/AAAAAAAAAgM/N92SZYCYcbI/s200/Cobalcescu.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 43px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 81px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4GyrGAOI/AAAAAAAAAgE/O86jg7iqaXM/s1600-h/Mondial.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313042612234879202" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4GyrGAOI/AAAAAAAAAgE/O86jg7iqaXM/s200/Mondial.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 38px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 80px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4HQtNTmI/AAAAAAAAAgU/yFLhfCd6FVU/s1600-h/20090309_1443.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313042620296810082" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4HQtNTmI/AAAAAAAAAgU/yFLhfCd6FVU/s200/20090309_1443.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 39px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 64px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Secondly, you must know that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;there's hundreds of taxi companies&lt;/span&gt; with names such as Taxi 2001, Taxi Leone, Modern Taxi, Taxi Fly, Taxi Cris, Apolodor Taxi... &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4HvdLinI/AAAAAAAAAgc/YQsc3hA9jz4/s1600-h/NumTelefono.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313042628551084658" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4HvdLinI/AAAAAAAAAgc/YQsc3hA9jz4/s200/NumTelefono.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 48px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 86px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4HkR3FmI/AAAAAAAAAgk/MNSF3BrHfCU/s1600-h/NumTelefono2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313042625550816866" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu4HkR3FmI/AAAAAAAAAgk/MNSF3BrHfCU/s200/NumTelefono2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 50px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 78px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Each of them can be called dialling the Bucharest city code (021) plus a 4-digit number. So we can assume there's less than 10.000 companies, if my high-school probabilistic calculus are right :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu7Q3QUsrI/AAAAAAAAAgs/XMPuBKWziV4/s1600-h/160lei.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313046083798348466" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu7Q3QUsrI/AAAAAAAAAgs/XMPuBKWziV4/s200/160lei.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 75px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 75px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As I already said, taxis are cheap, at least compared to Madrid; I would say even affordable, being of common use,  and not of exceptional use, as it happen in Madrid, where many people (including myself) would only use them during working hours and the cost is going to be assumed by your company, or if it's&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu7RA9aWVI/AAAAAAAAAg0/uFjfzamD1go/s1600-h/192lei.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313046086403381586" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu7RA9aWVI/AAAAAAAAAg0/uFjfzamD1go/s200/192lei.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 57px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 75px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; late night and you count it as a leisure expense). However, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;one must check the tariff every time, as they are established by each company and, sometimes, by each taxi driver&lt;/span&gt;. Taxis have a taximeter, and the tariff is calculated by lei/km, and it's writen at both sides of the cab; something in between 1,45 to 1,95 lei/km is reasonable, except for taxis coming from the airport, that uses a 3,5o&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu7RF02giI/AAAAAAAAAg8/NwRbp4yGNCE/s1600-h/3leiPequegno.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313046087709655586" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbu7RF02giI/AAAAAAAAAg8/NwRbp4yGNCE/s200/3leiPequegno.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 74px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 74px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; lei/km tariff. In Bucharest, then you experiment the following absurd situation: going to the airport from city centre cost 50% less than doing the same ride from the airport [with regular traffic, 15 euro to go from Uniri up to Otopeni, but 30 euro to come back).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;taxi drivers ten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;d to round off the bill&lt;/span&gt;. On the one hand, because that's inevitable; the taximeter establishes the exact cost to&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; bani&lt;/span&gt; level (1 lei =100 bani), when you won't be seeing a 1 &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ban &lt;/span&gt;coin in Romania ever, unless you're clearing your bank account, and I doubt that you'll be given it even in that situation. On the other hand, because they tend to self-tip the ride with no comment at all, or "no-cash available" comments. Why I always get my 1 lei/2 lei/5 lei change back, it is a mistery to my acquaintances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The companies themselves are, in general, trustworthy. Yet to avoid problems, you must check the cab before taking it, as if you where under threat:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Step 1.&lt;/span&gt; Verify the tariff at the door. You can often see 3,50 tariffs in the city, placed on a sticker that the taxi driver put on the regular tariff (see in the photos above, both 1,95 and 3,00 tariffs are stickers); these taxi drivers usually park the car where "defenseless" customers are (hotels, outside Romexpo -Bucharest exhibitional centre-, restaurants at night...), speak you in Italian or English if you take a look at the car, and act deranged  and/or offended if you go away then, pointing out that you decline their services because they try to cheat on you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Step 2.&lt;/span&gt; Verify that the taximeter is using the same tariff that it's written outside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Step 3. &lt;/span&gt;Check if you have change in your wallet. I not, comment that to the taxi driver (n&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;u am marunte&lt;/span&gt;) when you're leaving, to avoid unnecessary arguing afterwards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some extra advices:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Advice 1. &lt;/span&gt;Don't use taxi cabs without taximeter, which are very often, parked for example, at Otopeni or Baneasa airports. Although you may think that the negociated tariff will be better than the official 3,50 lei/km Taxi Fly there, in practise you don't get much a bargain, and some of them will try to renegociate the tariff during the way. A mess... P.S. The same when they offer you "to stop the taximeter"; sometimes it's a good deal, most of the times not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Advice 2.&lt;/span&gt; Some taxi drivers will offer you their mobile to call them directly. It is a good idea, in most cases, although I have been told also anecdotes about "mobile" taxi drivers that weren't so trustworthy after all...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Advice 3.&lt;/span&gt; If you don't like much taxi chatting, don't sit at the front, they talk a lot more to you then... And besides, non-taximeter taxi drivers get too confortable and very often start the renegociating strategy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Advice 4. &lt;/span&gt;If you try to wear the seat belt, most of them will make some funny comment such as "no need, you're not in Spain now". Don't be so stupid as myself, who doesn't wear the seat belt in Romania, some kind of mass follower impulse I have, but will certainly regret in case I have an accident. (Like the Pop Star Teofil Peter, killed in a "taxi accident" with &lt;a href="http://useu.usmission.gov/Article.asp?ID=5077D987-925A-4039-BA70-98E67450E7C6"&gt;political consequences&lt;/a&gt; in 2006).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2707640646_a0793c6c3b.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2707640646_a0793c6c3b.jpg?v=0" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 78px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 118px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Advice 5.&lt;/span&gt; Try to forget about the very often careless driving style and enjoy the trip! Despite advice 3 stated above, I had some funny taxi drivers here, and good conversation. And the taxi decoration itself is quite special, with many crosses and icons hanging, and all kind of car toys around. In fact, many Romanian cars show a profussion of religious, supersticious tokens, toys... Some taxis I've been in, very modest from the outside, have even a tiny DVD screen near the rear view, in order to watch movies, video clips or football matches while waiting the next customer (once, while driving the customer... I didn't like that one...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last taxi a took from the airport was, I swear, a Romanian revival of Willy Montesinos taxi in Almodovar's 1988 comedy &lt;a href="http://french.imdb.de/title/tt0095675/"&gt;Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M_XrH1QU6p8&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M_XrH1QU6p8&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm shy... Didn't dare to take a photo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-4276335617006790020?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/4276335617006790020/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=4276335617006790020&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4276335617006790020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4276335617006790020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/taxi-driver.html' title='Taxi driver'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbuzaRPgSXI/AAAAAAAAAf0/kHTC_Dz56Bs/s72-c/20090314_1472_Taxis_MihaiKolganiceanu.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5216877781753432996</id><published>2009-03-13T20:08:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.529+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Streets of Bucharest: Graffiti Men</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/2692922295_d69d51741f.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 126px; height: 166px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/2693735296_3ffee8382d.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3453/3351318543_43ae2b9c5d.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 167px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3453/3351318543_43ae2b9c5d.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3247536853_e079cda078.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 171px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3247536853_e079cda078.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2711878611_353529b875.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 170px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2711878611_353529b875.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3284736517_e9c66a26a1.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 171px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3284736517_e9c66a26a1.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pereulok/sets/72157614631895530/"&gt;Some more&lt;/a&gt; Graffiti Men in Bucharest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5216877781753432996?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5216877781753432996/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5216877781753432996&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5216877781753432996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5216877781753432996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/streets-of-bucharest-graffitti-men.html' title='Streets of Bucharest: Graffiti Men'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5087449966283921716</id><published>2009-03-10T17:53:00.028+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.522+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Streets of Bucharest (at random)</title><content type='html'>On sunny days, wandering around, coming back home from work, taking streets at random,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbab1i3fYlI/AAAAAAAAAak/iT2nJX2Zj24/s1600-h/20090309_1399.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 79px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbab1i3fYlI/AAAAAAAAAak/iT2nJX2Zj24/s200/20090309_1399.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311604154724999762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbab2Cier1I/AAAAAAAAAas/gZuOoeWL_5A/s1600-h/20090309_1436.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 79px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbab2Cier1I/AAAAAAAAAas/gZuOoeWL_5A/s200/20090309_1436.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311604163226808146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;waving at taxi cabs in every intersection,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaeGRWm-hI/AAAAAAAAAa0/27CB32VKW1Y/s1600-h/20090309_1398.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 83px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaeGRWm-hI/AAAAAAAAAa0/27CB32VKW1Y/s200/20090309_1398.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311606641104714258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaeG_3HIqI/AAAAAAAAAa8/97pZZL2rT24/s1600-h/20090309_1427.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 83px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaeG_3HIqI/AAAAAAAAAa8/97pZZL2rT24/s200/20090309_1427.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311606653589070498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaeHvKuBTI/AAAAAAAAAbE/npX55zgFOz4/s1600-h/20090309_1438.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 82px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaeHvKuBTI/AAAAAAAAAbE/npX55zgFOz4/s200/20090309_1438.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311606666287777074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;passing by villas that have seen better times,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbagddwlrSI/AAAAAAAAAbM/70pGJ6t9yW4/s1600-h/20090309_1411.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 58px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbagddwlrSI/AAAAAAAAAbM/70pGJ6t9yW4/s200/20090309_1411.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311609238595153186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbageFNPSdI/AAAAAAAAAbc/mjiIJt297xM/s1600-h/20090309_1421.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 59px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbageFNPSdI/AAAAAAAAAbc/mjiIJt297xM/s200/20090309_1421.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311609249184303570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbagdm4GqSI/AAAAAAAAAbU/bQ7kf-I6BZQ/s1600-h/20090309_1408.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 57px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbagdm4GqSI/AAAAAAAAAbU/bQ7kf-I6BZQ/s200/20090309_1408.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311609241042594082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbagezg10ZI/AAAAAAAAAbk/VurH1w91mAA/s1600-h/20090309_1426.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 83px; height: 55px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbagezg10ZI/AAAAAAAAAbk/VurH1w91mAA/s200/20090309_1426.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311609261614551442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;passing by brightly-painted, newly-built up-to-date individual houses and half-built "la roşu" still-to-be houses,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbahjIvzp8I/AAAAAAAAAb0/g9IV9QRm3ts/s1600-h/20090309_1429.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 126px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbahjIvzp8I/AAAAAAAAAb0/g9IV9QRm3ts/s200/20090309_1429.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311610435545573314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbahiggkgFI/AAAAAAAAAbs/42my9i3hEhg/s1600-h/20090309_1407.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 128px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbahiggkgFI/AAAAAAAAAbs/42my9i3hEhg/s200/20090309_1407.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311610424744247378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;passing by the old and the new, the fancy and the common,&lt;br /&gt;the dirt and the soap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbauVB0K4rI/AAAAAAAAAeU/RQBl6hn7bNo/s1600-h/20090309_1403.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 79px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbauVB0K4rI/AAAAAAAAAeU/RQBl6hn7bNo/s200/20090309_1403.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311624486817817266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbauVnoOdwI/AAAAAAAAAec/fPLBh09eguY/s1600-h/20090309_1406.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 52px; height: 79px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbauVnoOdwI/AAAAAAAAAec/fPLBh09eguY/s200/20090309_1406.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311624496968267522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbavGPMBh8I/AAAAAAAAAe0/BQ2wURCla9g/s1600-h/20090309_1450.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 51px; height: 79px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbavGPMBh8I/AAAAAAAAAe0/BQ2wURCla9g/s200/20090309_1450.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311625332221118402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbavGeSoF-I/AAAAAAAAAe8/RknHPKOACxA/s1600-h/20090309_1432.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 79px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbavGeSoF-I/AAAAAAAAAe8/RknHPKOACxA/s200/20090309_1432.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311625336275343330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbauWrk_ZpI/AAAAAAAAAes/DWVdl34Lvko/s1600-h/20090309_1431.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 82px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbauWrk_ZpI/AAAAAAAAAes/DWVdl34Lvko/s200/20090309_1431.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311624515208308370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbauWBx98iI/AAAAAAAAAek/rs-ZHzSCosQ/s1600-h/20090309_1423.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 82px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbauWBx98iI/AAAAAAAAAek/rs-ZHzSCosQ/s200/20090309_1423.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311624503988449826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I stop to have a beer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbakTe-sU-I/AAAAAAAAAb8/7UQrQC0cF2w/s1600-h/20090309_1414.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 88px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbakTe-sU-I/AAAAAAAAAb8/7UQrQC0cF2w/s200/20090309_1414.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311613465170564066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbakT8Cp9uI/AAAAAAAAAcE/bxX1iYKAinQ/s1600-h/20090309_1415.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 88px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbakT8Cp9uI/AAAAAAAAAcE/bxX1iYKAinQ/s200/20090309_1415.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311613472971814626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbakUI1zDTI/AAAAAAAAAcM/qTE6BR21VJ4/s1600-h/20090309_1442.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 59px; height: 89px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbakUI1zDTI/AAAAAAAAAcM/qTE6BR21VJ4/s200/20090309_1442.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311613476407545138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I stop to take a glimpse through the shabby gates of forgotten backyards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbanEVrgRXI/AAAAAAAAAcs/1wTK7he1a04/s1600-h/20090309_1441.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 77px; height: 114px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbanEVrgRXI/AAAAAAAAAcs/1wTK7he1a04/s200/20090309_1441.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311616503511008626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbanFTaPJUI/AAAAAAAAAc0/tOG-qyOZbWQ/s1600-h/20090309_1456.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 171px; height: 114px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbanFTaPJUI/AAAAAAAAAc0/tOG-qyOZbWQ/s200/20090309_1456.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311616520081581378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I stop to feel the colour touches of urban life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbalKdeeYtI/AAAAAAAAAcU/c389-rlNCY4/s1600-h/20090309_1434.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 129px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbalKdeeYtI/AAAAAAAAAcU/c389-rlNCY4/s200/20090309_1434.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311614409659802322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbalKxqGqpI/AAAAAAAAAcc/VuCFWvZqvyU/s1600-h/20090309_1400.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 130px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbalKxqGqpI/AAAAAAAAAcc/VuCFWvZqvyU/s200/20090309_1400.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311614415077288594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaljw0FZmI/AAAAAAAAAck/zbsM9xZpsKI/s1600-h/20090309_1413.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 129px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaljw0FZmI/AAAAAAAAAck/zbsM9xZpsKI/s200/20090309_1413.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311614844347442786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3247536853_e079cda078.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 129px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3247536853_e079cda078.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And while I fight my way through the cars parked at the pavement,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaoiurP7NI/AAAAAAAAAdM/rB7vaDf-hM0/s1600-h/20090309_1419.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 82px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaoiurP7NI/AAAAAAAAAdM/rB7vaDf-hM0/s200/20090309_1419.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311618125128527058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaoienbF4I/AAAAAAAAAdE/1ue0IfNSoKU/s1600-h/20090309_1417.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 55px; height: 81px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaoienbF4I/AAAAAAAAAdE/1ue0IfNSoKU/s200/20090309_1417.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311618120817514370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaoi8d-ivI/AAAAAAAAAdU/LLMt2m4QOBc/s1600-h/20090309_1424.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 54px; height: 80px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaoi8d-ivI/AAAAAAAAAdU/LLMt2m4QOBc/s200/20090309_1424.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311618128830958322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaoiHTbN_I/AAAAAAAAAc8/4Xw9tViWYCg/s1600-h/20090309_1405.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 80px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbaoiHTbN_I/AAAAAAAAAc8/4Xw9tViWYCg/s200/20090309_1405.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311618114559621106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;while I keep vigilant to the holes and obstacles that I encounter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaq47FdKiI/AAAAAAAAAds/4rH2gGe3S1E/s1600-h/20090309_1451.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 80px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaq47FdKiI/AAAAAAAAAds/4rH2gGe3S1E/s200/20090309_1451.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311620705440049698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaq38yL9QI/AAAAAAAAAdc/e03jM0bOE_M/s1600-h/20090309_1448.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 80px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaq38yL9QI/AAAAAAAAAdc/e03jM0bOE_M/s200/20090309_1448.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311620688716231938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaq4e2tCYI/AAAAAAAAAdk/xyw73dsm6RQ/s1600-h/20090309_1453.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 80px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbaq4e2tCYI/AAAAAAAAAdk/xyw73dsm6RQ/s200/20090309_1453.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311620697861982594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;while I am constantly aware of the cables untidily knotted above my head,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbazM6letaI/AAAAAAAAAfc/21D3Z5bZVwk/s1600-h/20090309_1457.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 77px; height: 114px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbazM6letaI/AAAAAAAAAfc/21D3Z5bZVwk/s200/20090309_1457.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311629844996339106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbazNn4dJVI/AAAAAAAAAfk/Z-_ICY6xUNY/s1600-h/20090309_1458.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 113px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbazNn4dJVI/AAAAAAAAAfk/Z-_ICY6xUNY/s200/20090309_1458.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311629857155523922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't help but mourn the closed shops and the remnants of mid-Century architecture risking collapse,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbass-m78QI/AAAAAAAAAd0/AH15w5_PltM/s1600-h/20090309_1412.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 131px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbass-m78QI/AAAAAAAAAd0/AH15w5_PltM/s200/20090309_1412.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311622699250610434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbastcU7uJI/AAAAAAAAAd8/xa-CszzqGco/s1600-h/20090309_1430.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 85px; height: 127px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbastcU7uJI/AAAAAAAAAd8/xa-CszzqGco/s200/20090309_1430.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311622707228162194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and I can't help but regret the glass frenzy of modern architects and the glass imperative of past decades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbawSmBBykI/AAAAAAAAAfE/OGsBhjTltMs/s1600-h/20090309_1435.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 173px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbawSmBBykI/AAAAAAAAAfE/OGsBhjTltMs/s200/20090309_1435.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311626644019071554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbatfWfinEI/AAAAAAAAAeM/I5CDgZlwExI/s1600-h/20090309_1433.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 174px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbatfWfinEI/AAAAAAAAAeM/I5CDgZlwExI/s200/20090309_1433.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311623564655500354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet I can't help to enjoy the architectural surprises that pop up now and then, either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbayzBEBdkI/AAAAAAAAAfM/XnJbcphbMho/s1600-h/20090309_1445.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 65px; height: 98px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbayzBEBdkI/AAAAAAAAAfM/XnJbcphbMho/s200/20090309_1445.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311629400058459714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbayzUm3ARI/AAAAAAAAAfU/zm4x3oa5NMw/s1600-h/20090309_1452.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 99px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbayzUm3ARI/AAAAAAAAAfU/zm4x3oa5NMw/s200/20090309_1452.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311629405304848658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As chaos is tiring, as changes are messy, as air is loaded with silent complaints.&lt;br /&gt;As ages have passed. For good and for worse.&lt;br /&gt;As I must take the bet and find my way.&lt;br /&gt;As that is life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5087449966283921716?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5087449966283921716/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5087449966283921716&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5087449966283921716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5087449966283921716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/streets-of-bucharest-at-random.html' title='Streets of Bucharest (at random)'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/Sbab1i3fYlI/AAAAAAAAAak/iT2nJX2Zj24/s72-c/20090309_1399.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-8788038168256829615</id><published>2009-03-09T21:45:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.768+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Be optimistic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;8th March&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sé optimista &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;8 de marzo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fii &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Opt&lt;/span&gt;imist&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;ă&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;martie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbWA-XXGjnI/AAAAAAAAAac/_6IVy4nuaGk/s1600-h/20090309_1397_8Marzo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbWA-XXGjnI/AAAAAAAAAac/_6IVy4nuaGk/s320/20090309_1397_8Marzo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311293144464526962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; [&lt;/span&gt;La Mihai Stănescu]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-8788038168256829615?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/8788038168256829615/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=8788038168256829615&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8788038168256829615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8788038168256829615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/be-optimistic-8th-march-se-optimista-8.html' title=''/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbWA-XXGjnI/AAAAAAAAAac/_6IVy4nuaGk/s72-c/20090309_1397_8Marzo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-8282543627958277095</id><published>2009-03-01T18:40:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.726+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Martisor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fiestas populares'/><title type='text'>Mărţişor fericit</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3433/3317386988_af502cb634.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 155px; height: 231px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3433/3317386988_af502cb634.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Spring has come, and every country has its own way of celebrating. In Romania, like in Bulgaria, on 1st of March they celebrate Mărţişor, "little March". It could be defined as a woman holiday, in the sense that women are the centre of it, because they are given flowers or little talisman tied with red and white laces called also Mărţişor. You must wear Martisoare  from 1st of March until 8th March, and it's good luck. Afterwards, you keep all you had been given tied to some tree or plant at home, to bring you happiness for the rest of the year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bring you happiness for the rest of the year... don't worry, if you forget about Mărţişor, you'll have another opportunity in Easter, when the pope will light a candle at the church, and will pass the light (lumina) to the parishioners. You must keep that light lit and take it home, where it should extinguish naturally, and your house will be blessed for the rest of the year. And then you can go out and have fun, as that night is a two-folded holiday, having the family and religious sense of Spanish catholic Christmas Eve (dining at home and going to church at midnight, although that is not done so often as in Romania) ,and the pagan and joyful sense of New Year's Eve (a lot of chatter while people wait the candle to be lit up, and groups of friends going out all night).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But let's come back to Mărţişor. I feel lazy, so I leave serious, impartial descriptions for others, in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%83r%C5%A3i%C5%9For"&gt;English &lt;/a&gt;or &lt;a href="http://imbratisare.blogspot.com/2009/02/en-rumania-al-igual-que-en-otros-paises.html"&gt;Spanish&lt;/a&gt;. I just want to describe the atmosphere, the way I felt it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3309/3317387066_e4f4036439.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 175px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3309/3317387066_e4f4036439.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Last day of work before Mărţişor, being a woman, you get small presents of your male colleagues, either flowers or Mărţişoare... and you wonder again why they don't have days off for important holidays like this; this year 1st of March was Sunday, but had it been Monday, it would have been a working day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/3317387138_7f4bc6a1df.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 163px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3626/3317387138_7f4bc6a1df.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Then, if spring is really approaching and weather is good enough, you might feel like walking around the city 25 February, 28 February, 1st March... You'll find more flower stalls than ever, and many Mărţişoare stalls outside markets or at the stations of the underground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then 1st of March comes, and it's like 14th February is supposed to be if you watch TV, but this time for real, specially if it's Sunday like today: people buying cakes and flowers to take to friend's and family who they are going to have lunch or dinner with, couples taking a walk and holding hands, carrying Mărţişoare and flowers, specially bouquets of &lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghiocel"&gt;ghiocel&lt;/a&gt; (white, lilac, rose).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it is like 14th February in one sense... Everyone seeks a gain...  The PSD candidate from your Bucharest municipal Sector sends you a postcard, and some shops include a red-white Mărţişor lace on their plastic bags...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarW_MNq60I/AAAAAAAAAaM/lByURa8FuwQ/s1600-h/20090301_1279_MartisoareFlor.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarW_MNq60I/AAAAAAAAAaM/lByURa8FuwQ/s200/20090301_1279_MartisoareFlor.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308291491908217666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarW-xQZFYI/AAAAAAAAAaE/sHZunyM4YP4/s1600-h/20090301_1275_MartisoarePolitica.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarW-xQZFYI/AAAAAAAAAaE/sHZunyM4YP4/s200/20090301_1275_MartisoarePolitica.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308291484671874434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarW_exXKkI/AAAAAAAAAaU/Qaa_-lJ6LYI/s1600-h/20090301_1280_MartisoareFlorDetalles.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 156px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarW_exXKkI/AAAAAAAAAaU/Qaa_-lJ6LYI/s200/20090301_1280_MartisoareFlorDetalles.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308291496889756226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But I'll forget the vested uses of the holiday, and will keep memories of the associated feelings, as people do seem to sense the holiday around here. And me too, because springtime did come (sunny 9 degrees today), and we all feel happy and lucky!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-8282543627958277095?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/8282543627958277095/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=8282543627958277095&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8282543627958277095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8282543627958277095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/03/martisor-fericit.html' title='Mărţişor fericit'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarW_MNq60I/AAAAAAAAAaM/lByURa8FuwQ/s72-c/20090301_1279_MartisoareFlor.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5835484708141061355</id><published>2009-02-26T23:06:00.012+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.562+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Save Cişmigiu!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SacYJ2CFWtI/AAAAAAAAAZc/EzdqAmv0MXg/s1600-h/salvati_cismigiul_miting_mic.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SacYJ2CFWtI/AAAAAAAAAZc/EzdqAmv0MXg/s320/salvati_cismigiul_miting_mic.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307237243281562322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What's this all about? &lt;a href="http://enciclopediaromaniei.ro/wiki/Palatul_Universul"&gt;Palatul Universul&lt;/a&gt; (1926-1930), the old headquarters of the Universul Journal at Ion Brezoianu Street, was sold last year to an investor group that is planning to build a complex of three buildings of 8, 10 ans 12 storeys, in a protected area behind Cismigiu Park. I quote and translate from the &lt;a href="http://asociatiabucuresti.ro/blog/"&gt;PRO URBE Salvaţi Cişmigiul Campaig blog&lt;/a&gt;, trusting the source: "Friday, at 1pm, Bucharest City Hall General Council is going to discuss the &lt;a href="http://asociatiabucuresti.ro/blog/?p=206"&gt;Cişmigiu-Brezoianu Plan&lt;/a&gt;, that includes building blocks of 42 meters in a 16-meters proyected area. The plan is supported by mistaken legal agreements and &lt;a href="http://asociatiabucuresti.ro/blog/?p=174"&gt;mathematical calculus&lt;/a&gt;, and without a previous public hearing. Ministry of Culture has asked the City Hall to stop the project" I won't be able to go to that meeting, although I would like to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;More information on PRO URBE Campaigns at their &lt;a href="http://asociatiabucuresti.ro/"&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;. I wonder what happened after all with &lt;a href="http://salvatiparculcuplatani.blogspot.com/"&gt;Parcul cu Platani&lt;/a&gt;... I don't know for sure, must check on that place I never heard of, but I suspect it couldn't be saved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/2289012715_eddb4597f2.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 172px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/2289012715_eddb4597f2.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is not the first Salvati Cişmigiul posters I see around, there's been other interesting ideas on the area, and I'm sure I know very little on this matters. For example, there's an old café in the middle of the pond (the city was taken during winter, when the pond has no wattter ans is used half as a skating rink, and the other half as a walking path). Apparently, that part of the park is private property, and I heard they were planning to build a several-storeys complex there... Fortunately, rumours stopped, so far. I suspect also that there's something happening with the building I live at, as the City Mayor visited it tduring local elections, and the Transport Ministry also came to talk with the neighbours during Parliamentary elections in november. Yeah, with my lovely harmless, and powerless pensioneers. As with Friday's meeting, those days I couldn't make it so iI don't know what the story was about. However, although my building is not historical, not pretty, not a worthy-to-protect one, I'm not very confident of the reason of that politicians approaching so close, so nicely (so populist-like?) a very unespecial block, inhabited by common people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Some photos of Tipografia Universul... By the way, the building is already 3 storeys higher than the rest of mid-Century buildings that remain standing at Strada Ion Brezoianu... If your start making a little higher buildings decade by decade you don't notice, and suddenly, you have a 10-storey wall surrounding you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbbHVMQhulI/AAAAAAAAAfs/v3q0WHAjHdo/s1600-h/20090309_1466_TipografiaUniversul.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 127px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SbbHVMQhulI/AAAAAAAAAfs/v3q0WHAjHdo/s200/20090309_1466_TipografiaUniversul.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311651977411803730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarCVUgM2oI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/uKImp0fgQPo/s1600-h/20090301_1285_TipografiaUniversul.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 127px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarCUtEpF_I/AAAAAAAAAZk/i05vAJLn_T8/s200/20090301_1283_TipografiaUniversul.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308268771761788914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 127px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarCU93W1AI/AAAAAAAAAZs/miUnQ9sQ9e0/s200/20090301_1282_TipografiaUniversul.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308268776269468674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 127px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SarCVUgM2oI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/uKImp0fgQPo/s200/20090301_1285_TipografiaUniversul.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308268782346361474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5835484708141061355?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5835484708141061355/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5835484708141061355&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5835484708141061355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5835484708141061355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/save-cismigiu.html' title='Save Cişmigiu!'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SacYJ2CFWtI/AAAAAAAAAZc/EzdqAmv0MXg/s72-c/salvati_cismigiul_miting_mic.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2847189183077606341</id><published>2009-02-22T18:18:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.400+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mihai Stanescu'/><title type='text'>Facut de un artist plastic</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Enfrente de Sala Palatului, entre kioskos de frutas y bebidas, casas de cambio y tiendas de ropa o cachivaches, hay una pequeña tienda de unos 20 metros cuadrados con una mesa al fondo donde se pueden comprar diferentes productos decorados con caricaturas o lemas: postales, tazas, bolsas de tela, delantales de cocina... Se trata de la tienda del humorista gráfico Mihai Stănescu, un local de horario flexible&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGZHzvHq8I/AAAAAAAAAZE/MffCumQdqxs/s1600-h/20090222_1258_recorte.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 40px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGZHzvHq8I/AAAAAAAAAZE/MffCumQdqxs/s320/20090222_1258_recorte.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305690195445132226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ("cerrado de 18 a 10", pone en la puerta, aunque no siempre se cumple... qué gracia tendría ser artista plástico si hubiera que cumplir horarios). Este caricaturista de setenta años pasa allí el día, muy a menudo leyendo el periódico y mirando a las musarañas, y algunas temporadas dibujando en una mesa desordenada cubierta de cuadernos y paquetes de tabaco. Y atiende a los que entran en su tienda con la sonrisa del anfitrión que atiende a las visitas en el salón de su casa, cobrando sus compras de forma descuidada, como quien está realizando un acto de importancia menor dentro de su actividad... que probablemente sea, simplemente, existir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGYzb1njSI/AAAAAAAAAY0/U-QFrVA9X8Q/s1600-h/20090211_1248_stanescu.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGYzb1njSI/AAAAAAAAAY0/U-QFrVA9X8Q/s320/20090211_1248_stanescu.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305689845432552738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La verdad es que me había fijado en esta tienda hace ya muchos meses, y suelo comprar cosas de vez en cuando para regalar cuando voy a España; en Rumania he encontrado muy pocos souvenirs o productos típicos nacionales que me parezcan medianamente decentes, al menos en Bucarest (por no decir  ninguno), y las tazas de Stănescu tienen su éxito. La tienda, en el fondo, no me parecía tan extraña; lo que me intrigaba era que el dueño fuera un señor al que calculaba al menos 55 años (no aparenta 70) dedicado a leer el periódico, y no un joven diseñador de 30-35 con su portátil echando humo, con su tienda abierta pero al mismo tiempo trabajando en mil cosas para ganarse las lentejas.  Es verdad que tampoco parecía cuadrar mucho dónde estaba situada la tienda, pero eso pronto empezó a extrañarme menos, en cuanto me di cuenta de que, simplemente, Bucarest es un caos, y no existe el concepto de "lugar adecuado", y puedes encontrar cualquier cosa en cualquier lugar. Aunque, eso sí, sospecho que el local, donde está situado, debe costar una pasta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sea como fuere, hasta hace pocas semanas no se me ocurrió investigar por Internet, a ver si encontraba &lt;a href="http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/795730/Mihai-Stanescu-desenandu-si-viata/"&gt;información sobre el tipo&lt;/a&gt;; fue entonces cuando descubrí, para mi sorpresa, que no sólo se trataba de un artista gráfico, sino de un famoso artista gráfico, que era como si &lt;a href="http://www.quino.com.ar/"&gt;Quino&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.porliniers.com/"&gt;Liniers&lt;/a&gt; o &lt;a href="http://www.forges.com/"&gt;Forges&lt;/a&gt; tuvieran una tienda abierta al público en la que pasaran el día.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Descríbete en tres frases, te piden a veces cuando eres alguien, o incluso un proyecto de alguien. He encontrado en una web esta &lt;a href="http://www.superbrands.com/ro/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=160"&gt;presentación de sí mismo&lt;/a&gt; de Mihai Stănescu:"I was born in 1939, but I started my studies later on, in Buzau, a town with 100 inhabitants and four taxi cabs. I graduated from Nicolae Grigorescu Plastic Arts Institute in 1966.I have collaborated with publications like Urzica and Playboy, but I'm not a famous person. In return, I know a lot of people as I have been traveling more than I have ever expected. I displayed my works in exhibitions in Romania and abroad and I own over 40 international awards. I published my drawings in important newspapers in France and US, but I gained celebrity mostly because I was prohibited in Romania not because of my drawing skills".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No conozco personalmente a  Mihai Stănescu, y no puedo valorar si esta presentación de sí mismo es sincera o adolece de falsa modestia, pero pienso, en todo caso,  que estas pocas frases irónicas y a vuelta de todo cuadran, si no con la persona, al menos sí con el personaje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un hombre peculiar y una tienda peculiar, con la que Mihai Stănescu redondea, probablemente, una pensión de miseria, pero que, sospecho, es más que una tienda, es un cuarto de estar. Su "drawing room". Porque así te sientes cuando entras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.D. Buzău tiene 500.000 habitantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGZsONTX6I/AAAAAAAAAZU/VGpgcTna02Q/s1600-h/20090211_1250_recorte_stanescu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 367px; height: 137px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGZsONTX6I/AAAAAAAAAZU/VGpgcTna02Q/s320/20090211_1250_recorte_stanescu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305690821026340770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Viñeta incluida en el libro "Am intrat în EuRoPa" ("Hemos entrado en EuRoPa")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGZr5kriXI/AAAAAAAAAZM/eHjwE4gNoRI/s1600-h/20090221_1254.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 164px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGZr5kriXI/AAAAAAAAAZM/eHjwE4gNoRI/s320/20090221_1254.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305690815487248754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;"Bucarest de día, eclipse de 11 de agosto de 1999"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(La primera vez que entré en la tienda, fue para comprar esta postal para mi colección de postales de ciudades de noche. No me la cobró)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2847189183077606341?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2847189183077606341/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2847189183077606341&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2847189183077606341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2847189183077606341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/facut-de-un-artist-plastic.html' title='Facut de un artist plastic'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SaGZHzvHq8I/AAAAAAAAAZE/MffCumQdqxs/s72-c/20090222_1258_recorte.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-3021727157311371895</id><published>2009-02-18T19:03:00.018+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.428+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cocor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Magazinul Cocor delux</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Magazinul Cocor ya no es lo que era: un bloque de hormigón que albergó en su día unos grandes almacenes al estilo comunista, y que, convertido en centro comercial y a pesar de su estupenda ubicación en pleno centro de Bucarest, no podía competir con otros más modernos, aunque excesivamente caóticos y mal diseñados por dentro, en general, dicen los arquitectos de interiores especialistas en este tipo de locales (porque en este Siglo XXI hay especialistas para todo...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magazinul Cocor cerró el año pasado, para iniciar los trabajos de reforma que lo han de convertir en un centro comercial de lujo, &lt;a href="http://www.cocorluxurystore.ro/"&gt;Cocor Lu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cocorluxurystore.ro/"&gt;xury Store&lt;/a&gt;. El estupendo,&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; luxurious&lt;/span&gt; sitio web, nos cuenta lo siguiente:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Cocor Luxury Store will open in October 2009 with a new concept: a department store with brand owners as tenants with a high level of interior and exteri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;or finishing becoming a pledge for luxurio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;us multinational brands. Its target is re&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;resented by customer with disposable incomes over 2.500 euros &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;per month. Cocor SA committed EUR 18 mil investments approved by shareholders, for overhaul, 250 cars parking with direct acce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ss to each floor, media facade and GLA extension with 30to 9500 sqm from a total of  25000 sqm building space.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Todo ello aderezado por un fondo musical tipo Fashion TV: "amado mío love me forever, and let forever begin tonight" una y otra vez, a ritmo de mambo o similar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El bloque de hormigóm sigue existiendo bajo la&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.zf.ro/burse-fonduri-mutuale/magazinul-cocor-inaugureaza-luni-fatada-media-in-care-a-investit-4-mil-euro-3566279/"&gt;media fasade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; acristalada que lo recubre, con su frente recubierto de pantallas  de alta definición y cinco pantallas más sobresaliendo en el lateral,. Se inauguró en diciembre: ha costado cuatro milloncejos de euros, y la web de Cocor lo describe como "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a high level of exterior finishing&lt;/span&gt;". A mí, en cambio, me tiene totalmente horrorizada; no logro acostumbrarme a que me ataque un flash de luz si miro hacia el Bulevar Nicolae Balcescu, ya sea desde Uniri o desde Universitate. La calle está en cuesta, lo que multiplica la visibilidad de las emisiones del Cocor Channel, que emitirá 12 horas diarias publicidad sobre las marcas que se vendan en su interior... aunque por ahora venda amor y hamburguesas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxY_NH1MDI/AAAAAAAAAYE/6CqNYpNCOLU/s1600-h/11022009187.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxY_NH1MDI/AAAAAAAAAYE/6CqNYpNCOLU/s200/11022009187.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304212304013111346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxZef6w5JI/AAAAAAAAAYc/mp8HqoqcTM8/s1600-h/11022009186.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxZef6w5JI/AAAAAAAAAYc/mp8HqoqcTM8/s200/11022009186.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304212841634522258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxY_QtWJFI/AAAAAAAAAYU/ohQmeYx3EsQ/s1600-h/11022009184.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxY_QtWJFI/AAAAAAAAAYU/ohQmeYx3EsQ/s200/11022009184.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304212304975766610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;P.D. El edificio es mucho más bonito en blanco y negro con toques de gris perla, como aparece en la &lt;a href="http://www.cocorluxurystore.ro/"&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;... Es lo que tiene la vida real, sea realismo socialista o capitalismo salvaje, que no todo lo que reluce es oro. Aunque tengo que reconocer que &lt;a href="http://www.anuala.ro/proiecte/2008/studii/s04/panou1.jpg"&gt;el proyecto de Vlad Simionesco &amp;amp; Asociados&lt;/a&gt; no mentía, y tal vez si a mí la profusión de pantallas me produce pesadillas por la noche (afortunadamente no vivo tan cerca como para que me produzca insomnio) es problema mío.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxb0i7VntI/AAAAAAAAAYk/m42CMtQ3rkw/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxb0i7VntI/AAAAAAAAAYk/m42CMtQ3rkw/s320/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304215419422613202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-3021727157311371895?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/3021727157311371895/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=3021727157311371895&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/3021727157311371895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/3021727157311371895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/magazinul-cocor-delux.html' title='Magazinul Cocor delux'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZxY_NH1MDI/AAAAAAAAAYE/6CqNYpNCOLU/s72-c/11022009187.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7959948305454494318</id><published>2009-02-16T20:17:00.012+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.698+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Little Bucharest behind the walls</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/01/seismic-risk-class-i.html"&gt;1977 earthquake&lt;/a&gt;, when Bucharest old city centre was badly damaged, Ceauşescu decided not to rehabilitate most of the area, but o demolish the remnants and build the People's House (currently the Parliament House), and other huge concrete buildings from there to Unirii and beyond, and also in Magheru and Balcescu Boulevards, and other parts of the city...  Huge asphalted alleys where left in the middle, meant to host military parades and mass events that didn't fit so much with Romania's population rates and military capacity. However, thousands and thousands of Romanians paraded inside Ceauşescu's head during those years, while he surveilled the works that were to transform the city into a light-grey concrete showcase for his raving ambition.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnFqeUL4vI/AAAAAAAAAWM/1ChC_uNiTH8/s1600-h/20090207_1219_blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 155px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnFqeUL4vI/AAAAAAAAAWM/1ChC_uNiTH8/s320/20090207_1219_blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303487369688376050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnJ5WkaBXI/AAAAAAAAAW0/5VjGHwdB5RM/s1600-h/20090207_1232.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnJ5WkaBXI/AAAAAAAAAW0/5VjGHwdB5RM/s200/20090207_1232.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303492023353476466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Huge and heavy concrete buildings, frequent traffic jams (not in the photo, but that was a Saturday morning...), monotonous outdated urbanism... However, if you walk behind that concrete buildings you'll get surprised, as they don't comprise a series of similar blocks from Boulevard Uniri to Izvor, but constitute some kind of wall hiding a neighbourhood of small houses and backyards, where birds sing in Spring (and can be heard), where there are houses in ruins full of trash and inhabited by homeless, but also small churches from old times, village houses from the time when Bucharest was just a too grown village, fancy caffes or hotels inside fin-de-siècle bourgeois villas. A hidden world than may not be the idyllic showcase for our dreams, but at least is full of sensations and contrasts, and leave room for both despair and hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1219/3267451094_7ba70982c7.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 177px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1219/3267451094_7ba70982c7.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3267451184_42344861eb.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 177px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3267451184_42344861eb.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3322/3272205909_f2d378a534.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 177px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3322/3272205909_f2d378a534.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3272199177_e844ecaee6.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 140px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3272199177_e844ecaee6.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnJTYp3kDI/AAAAAAAAAWU/PwySdV87mvU/s1600-h/20090207_1203.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnJTYp3kDI/AAAAAAAAAWU/PwySdV87mvU/s200/20090207_1203.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303491371078225970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnJToHg4CI/AAAAAAAAAWc/hTRdd7XdLWs/s1600-h/20090207_1205.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 141px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnJToHg4CI/AAAAAAAAAWc/hTRdd7XdLWs/s200/20090207_1205.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303491375229100066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnJUO06e4I/AAAAAAAAAWs/ZIF89NgHv6E/s1600-h/20090207_1237.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7959948305454494318?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7959948305454494318/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7959948305454494318&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7959948305454494318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7959948305454494318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/little-bucharest-behind-walls.html' title='Little Bucharest behind the walls'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SZnFqeUL4vI/AAAAAAAAAWM/1ChC_uNiTH8/s72-c/20090207_1219_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7536801941888755279</id><published>2009-02-10T17:48:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.663+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='propaganda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elections'/><title type='text'>Confieso que he mentido</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cuando llegué aquí &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/03/turno-de-noche.html"&gt;no entendía la mitad de las indirectas, pullas y broncas políticas de las que me enteraba por la radio&lt;/a&gt;, y no sólo por el idioma, sino por desconocimiento absoluto de &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/05/sopa-de-letras-multicolor.html"&gt;personas, personajes, siglas y colores&lt;/a&gt; en esta rifa superpoblada que a veces parece la vida política de este país (y la de cualquier otro, la verdad). Tímidamente, me dio por empezar a &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/06/postcommunist-neoeuropean-elections.html"&gt;resumir&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/oferta-temeraria.html"&gt;comentar&lt;/a&gt;, y &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/11/tu-nainte-de-toate.html"&gt;comentar&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/12/strada-verona-bucharest-december-2008.html"&gt;comentar&lt;/a&gt;, llegando incluso a &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/12/electoral-promises-aftermath.html"&gt;opinar&lt;/a&gt;. Y por eso, y porque es de sabios, ahora me toca rectificar, como rectifican los políticos, y decir lo que dirían ellos si la palabra mentir no fuera tabú, pero que dicen de otras mil maneras diferentes, para quien lo quiera entender: confieso que he mentido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porque tras muchos retrasos y dilaciones, el gobierno aprobó por fin una propuesta de Presupuestos Generales del Estado para 2009 que actualmente está pasando por Congreso y Senado (sí, a 10 de febrero estamos todavía así... mala cosa). Y en esa propuesta &lt;a href="http://www.agenda.ro/news/news/14995/bugetul-pe-2009-nu-include-majorarea-salariilor-profesorilor-si-nici-a-pensiilor.html"&gt;NO se aumentan las pensiones y los salarios a los profesores&lt;/a&gt;, tal como se aprobó en el parlamento en otoño, tal y como prometieron en las elecciones los que las han ganado. No se aumentan, aunque los comentaristas políticos a finales de año parecían dar a entender que sí se haría (de manera un tanto temeraria, ninguna medida populista -no confundir con progresista o resdistributiva- sale gratis).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La justificación del nuevo gobierno es estupenda (y típica del circo político): se había prometido en base a un análisis de los datos sobre el estado de la economía de las cuentas públicas que proporcionaba el gobierno anterior, que estaban maquillados (si esto verdad, mentira o verdad a medias no puedo deciros, aunque pongo en duda lo sesudo del análisis previo), y claro, ahora los malos eran ellos (pobres).... Paralelamente, está publicándose alguna que otra noticia sobre "&lt;a href="http://www.bucharestherald.com/politics/34-politics/1617-government-to-keep-fighting-against-luxury-salaries-and-pensions-despite-ccrs-decision-boc-says"&gt;pensionistas de lujo&lt;/a&gt;", que combinan salario y pensión, y ambos altos, un fenómeno que se quiere atajar. Una vez más, no sé deciros si estos pensionistas de lujo son mayoría entre los "pensionistas pluriempleados", aunque lo dudo, y en cualquier caso me resulta bastante sospechoso, personalmente, que justo ahora se centren en este tema... ¿un desvío claro de atención?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y mientras, los presupuestos todavía por aprobar, y los políticos ya moviendo ficha y lanzando globos sonda sobre las &lt;a href="http://www.cotidianul.ro/vanghelie_psd_nu_l_va_sustine_pe_oprescu_la_alegerile_prezidentiale_audio-72913.html"&gt;candidaturas para las elecciones presidenciales de finales de año&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y yo mientras, aquí comiendo pipas, en honor a las pensiones de miseria. Ahí va una anécdota, para terminar. La semana pasada estaba en la cola del supermercado y la abuela que estaba delante de mí le reclamó a la cajera la cuenta: resulta que había contabilizado 5 bolsas de pipas de girasol y 3 de pipas de calabaza, en lugar de 4 y 4, como llevaba. La diferencia era de 0,85 bani a favor de la vieja. Es decir, de 2 céntimos de euro aproximadamente. Teniendo en cuenta que no hay billetes de menos de un lei en Rumania, y nadie se agacha a recoger una moneda, os podéis imaginar la gravedad del error... Aunque, en honor de la abuela en cuestión, hay que reconocer que por 0,50 bani puedes comprar un covrig (&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;pretzel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; rumano), y muchos mendigos viven a base de los covrigi que les da la gente, así que 0,85 bani algo resuelven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y aquí os dejo por hoy, que yo sigo con mis pipas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2706823607_c8302622b9.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 332px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2706823607_c8302622b9.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7536801941888755279?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7536801941888755279/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7536801941888755279&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7536801941888755279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7536801941888755279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/confieso-que-he-mentido.html' title='Confieso que he mentido'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-6457536856640121542</id><published>2009-02-08T15:46:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.598+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MNAC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>MNAC - The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I was thinking yesterday that my blog is getting too hoarse, as I usually feel like talking about what doesn't seem right to me around here, more than about the positive aspects. You know the say: good news are no news... But anyway, today I feel like writing about nice things, without forcing it (an important rule, as if you must force it, that means those things weren't so nice after all...). So I'll write a little bit on Bucharest cultural life, which I haven't enjoyed, I'm afraid, so much as I would have liked to. But hey, having still a things-to-do list in the place you've been living for a year is definitely a good symptom, considering that, with my ups-and-downs, I did quite a few things last year, if I think about it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, let's focus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bucharest has a lot of night life, for all tastes and pockets, and a very lively cultural life: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;life music &lt;/span&gt;at bars and clubs (not only concerts, also orchestras playing pop o rock&amp;amp;roll hits, something I like a lot to find when I go to some club here), &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;theatre&lt;/span&gt; plays (with around 30 theatres, many of them offering &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;repertoire&lt;/span&gt; programmes... My knowledge of Romanian doesn't allow me to take the full advantage of it, although I have done some tries anyway)....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Street walking, I very often findappealing local &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;graffitties and stencils&lt;/span&gt; (while buildings keep unrenovated, better that colour spots than brownish and greyish dirty walls), and I have also gone to quite a few interesting &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;cinema festivals&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;street festivals&lt;/span&gt;. The problem with this is sometimes get the time, some other organise the thing (if you don't want to go alone) and sometimes, around here, it's just finding out in time that the activity you want to join is taking place. Here you don't plan business meeting more than too days in advace (well, maybe the Romanian President does), here you don't have to confirm your assistance to events or get any confirmation from your guests (a very stressful fact when you organise a conference, believe me), and here you find out that an expensive and huge street festival is taking place in the middle of the city only when you bump into it. That happened to me with &lt;a href="http://www.arcub.ro/archive_detail.php?id=1"&gt;B.Fit in the Street&lt;/a&gt; last May, a festival which was such a big and nice surprise to me that I still have some images in my memory (an in the right side of my blog...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, as always, I found out just by chance that there was a new installation art exhibition at &lt;a href="http://www.mnac.ro/"&gt;The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest (MNAC)&lt;/a&gt;. This museum only houses temporary expositions, so, although I had visited it some months ago and didn't like it at all, I decided to trust the unknown and include it in an early-springtime walk (yeah, February, 17 degrees). I wanted to give a chance to an exhibition which included a fake exposition on the first inflatable doll, created by the Germans for military use (the "rest of the warrior") during WW2... The whole thing a hoax, a fake exposition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, there were, in fact, three temporary exhibitions, and I loved them all... By the way, just for 5 lei, that is, 1.2 EUR. (I forgot to say before that cultural life is usually cheap around here. Night life too, except when  you go "exclusive". I should use some make-up to go exclusive, I'm afraid...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if by any chance you feel like surrounding the People's Palace in February, take a break in the ugliest and less centric part of the &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/03/symbols.html"&gt;45-minute uninteresting walk&lt;/a&gt; and get into the museum. On future exhibitions I cannot tell, but the current ones are worth the visit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;22 January-24 March 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style7 style3"&gt;&lt;span class="style20" lang="EN-US"&gt;“RE:akt!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="style7 style3"&gt;&lt;span class="style20" lang="EN-US"&gt; Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.reakt.org"&gt;www.reakt.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="style20"&gt;The world preview of the works realized in the last three years within the platform “RE:akt!” produced by the Slovenian cultural institution Aksioma. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY8Gv1I-3yI/AAAAAAAAAWE/9ta0ug9mLJA/s1600-h/MNAC_Reakt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY8Gv1I-3yI/AAAAAAAAAWE/9ta0ug9mLJA/s320/MNAC_Reakt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300462705226735394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;December 17, 2008 - February 28, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fabien Verschaere, Xmas Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A comic-like Christmas tale that will appeal both illustration and graffitti lovers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY8GvDy2YaI/AAAAAAAAAV8/aWoZ2w6XbTg/s1600-h/MNAC_FabienVerschaere.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 237px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY8GvDy2YaI/AAAAAAAAAV8/aWoZ2w6XbTg/s320/MNAC_FabienVerschaere.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300462691980566946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;December 11, 2008 - March 01, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Forest of Sculptures. The Simon Spierer Collection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An absolutely incredible collection of 20th Century sculptures, one of each, not too much of any... The house of my dreams would have definitely have a forest like this in its gardens (dream, Pereulok, dream, as that's free and harms no one...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY8GuQbTd_I/AAAAAAAAAV0/voW4L6y3BYw/s1600-h/MNAC_SimonSpierer+%281%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY8GuQbTd_I/AAAAAAAAAV0/voW4L6y3BYw/s320/MNAC_SimonSpierer+%281%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300462678191601650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" &gt;Artists: Constantin BRANCUSI, Julio &lt;strong&gt;GONZALES&lt;/strong&gt;, Hans &lt;strong&gt;ARP&lt;/strong&gt;, Max &lt;strong&gt;ERNST&lt;/strong&gt;, Andre &lt;strong&gt;MASSON &lt;/strong&gt;, Mauro &lt;strong&gt;REGGIANI &lt;/strong&gt;, Henry &lt;strong&gt;MOORE&lt;/strong&gt;, Lucio &lt;strong&gt;FONTANA&lt;/strong&gt;, Alberto &lt;strong&gt;GIACOMETTI&lt;/strong&gt;, Fausto &lt;strong&gt;MELOTTI&lt;/strong&gt;, Germaine &lt;strong&gt;RICHIER&lt;/strong&gt;, Barbara &lt;strong&gt;HEPWORTH &lt;/strong&gt;, Isamu &lt;strong&gt;NOGUCHI&lt;/strong&gt;, Max &lt;strong&gt;BILL, &lt;/strong&gt; Balthasar &lt;strong&gt;LOBO&lt;/strong&gt;, Louise &lt;strong&gt;BOURGEOIS&lt;/strong&gt;, Alicia &lt;strong&gt;PENALBA&lt;/strong&gt;, Kenneth &lt;strong&gt;ARMITAGE&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;CESAR&lt;/strong&gt;, Joannis &lt;strong&gt;AVRAMIDIS&lt;/strong&gt;, Richard &lt;strong&gt;STANKIEWICZ&lt;/strong&gt;, William &lt;strong&gt;TURNBULL&lt;/strong&gt;, Marta &lt;strong&gt;PAN&lt;/strong&gt;, Anthony &lt;strong&gt;CARO&lt;/strong&gt;, Vassilakis &lt;strong&gt;TAKIS&lt;/strong&gt;, Herbert &lt;strong&gt;PETERS&lt;/strong&gt;, Arnaldo &lt;strong&gt;POMODORO&lt;/strong&gt;, Augustin &lt;strong&gt;CARDENAS&lt;/strong&gt;, Michael &lt;strong&gt;CROISSANT&lt;/strong&gt;, Daniel &lt;strong&gt;SPOERRI&lt;/strong&gt;, Gunther &lt;strong&gt;UECKER&lt;/strong&gt;, Bruno &lt;strong&gt;ROMEDA&lt;/strong&gt;,Valeriano &lt;strong&gt;TRUBBIANI&lt;/strong&gt;, Graham &lt;strong&gt;WILLIAMS&lt;/strong&gt;, Vera &lt;strong&gt;ROHM&lt;/strong&gt;, Jean-Louis &lt;strong&gt;PERROT&lt;/strong&gt;, Laurent &lt;strong&gt;DE PURY&lt;/strong&gt;, Sebastien &lt;strong&gt;KITO&lt;/strong&gt;, Harald &lt;strong&gt;FERNAGU&lt;/strong&gt;, Andy &lt;strong&gt;WARHOL &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" &gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Simon Spierer (1926-2005)&lt;/span&gt; was a businessman of Jewish descent, who had an inherently trained eye for art. Born in Italy, he fled at an early age to Switzerland to avoid the fascist persecutions (his mother and sister, who remained in Trieste, were taken to a concentration camp) and subsequently worked in the USA. Spierer made his fortune in the tobacco business and lived in Hamburg and Geneva. He began collecting art in the 1950s. In the 60s, he and his companion, Marie-Louise Jeanneret, opened an art gallery in Champel, close to Geneva. In Boissano, an area between Genoa and San Remo, Italy, they established a center for the arts, a workshop and residency that drew famous artists from all over the world. When Marie-Louise died in 1994, he closed the gallery. It was then, when he dedicated himself to sculptures. A year before he died in 2005, Spierer donated his sculptures collection to the Hessisches landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany. To make the collection better known internationally, the museum, which is temporarily closed due to restoration work, decided to organize (in collaboration with the Institute for Cultural Exchange in Tübingen) a touring exhibition.   (Source: &lt;a href="http://onculture.eu/story.aspx?s_id=219"&gt;onculture.eu&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-6457536856640121542?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/6457536856640121542/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=6457536856640121542&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6457536856640121542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6457536856640121542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/mnac-national-museum-of-contemporary.html' title='MNAC - The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY8Gv1I-3yI/AAAAAAAAAWE/9ta0ug9mLJA/s72-c/MNAC_Reakt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5291841547056299307</id><published>2009-02-07T14:48:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.541+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aniversary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aniversario'/><title type='text'>Un año en Bucarest / One year in Bucharest</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Llegué a Bucarest hace cosa de un año, en febrero, y un día como hoy estaba mudándome a mi apartamento al lado del parque Cişmigiu, sin saber todavía que me iba a encantar ese parque, y despertarme los fines de semana escuchando a las futuras hermanas del coro practicando (a-A-a-a-A-a-a...)  en el Conservatorio, al otro lado de la calle. Y que eso compensaría vivir en una calle tranquila, pero demasiado céntrica para mi gusto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Qué he hecho durante este año? ¿Qué he aprendido? ¿Adónde fui? ¿Quién se acordó ocasionalmente de mí? Supongo que esta pared de mi piso puede ser un buen resumen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY2bqteedLI/AAAAAAAAAVk/zY-CoweywAU/s1600-h/20090207_1247.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY2bqteedLI/AAAAAAAAAVk/zY-CoweywAU/s320/20090207_1247.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300063494549173426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;I arrived to Bucharest a year ago, in February, and a day like today, second Saturday of February, I was moving to my flat in the back of Cişmigiu Park... I was not aware yet that my flat would be maybe too much in the city centre for my taste, but quiet enough. I was not aware yet that I would love Cişmigiu Park and that I would wake up every week-end with the  future chorus sisters practising (a-A-a-a-A-a-a...) in the Conservatory, across the street.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; What did I do during this year, what did I learnt, where did I go, who remembered me occasionally? I suppose that that wall at my flat could be a good summary&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5291841547056299307?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5291841547056299307/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5291841547056299307&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5291841547056299307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5291841547056299307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/un-ano-en-bucarest-one-year-in.html' title='Un año en Bucarest / One year in Bucharest'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY2bqteedLI/AAAAAAAAAVk/zY-CoweywAU/s72-c/20090207_1247.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-6944780728386215930</id><published>2009-02-06T19:32:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.620+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urban transport'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cable car'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infraestructuras'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infrastructures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='transporte urbano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='telegondola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teleférico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Going to work by car... by cable car / Teletransportándose al trabajo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY7QJS5tlVI/AAAAAAAAAVs/cPeUcakhVf0/s1600-h/20090207_1213.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY7QJS5tlVI/AAAAAAAAAVs/cPeUcakhVf0/s200/20090207_1213.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300402669572953426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bucharest City Hall unveiled today some extraordinary projects to be implemented in this city...I liked very much the &lt;a href="http://www.cotidianul.ro/bucurestenii_vor_avea_telegondola-59713.html"&gt;"telegondola" project&lt;/a&gt;: to create a cable car line from Colentina Riverside to Herastrau Park. Of course, you will ask me what's special about it, as many cities have some kind of nice cable car, Madrid has one that goes from Rosales Boulevard to the heart of "Casa de Campo" forest. Yeah, well, you're right... but they never where presented, as far as I know, as public transport solutions for the city, like this one has. Unable to fix the mess at the road level, maybe someone thought   that there weren't enough cables on the air...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2286729718_d7991be92c.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 130px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2286729718_d7991be92c.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;El Ayuntamiento de Bucarest hizo púb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;lica hoy una serie de proyectos  para el desarrollo de la ciudad... A mí me ha gustado especialmente el &lt;a href="http://www.cotidianul.ro/bucurestenii_vor_avea_telegondola-59713.html"&gt;proyecto de la "telegóndola"&lt;/a&gt;: crear una línea de teleféricos que vaya desde Colentina hasta el parque Herastrau. Os preguntaréis, por supuesto, qué mal hay en ello, si muchas ciudades tienen teleféricos similares. Madrid mismo tiene uno que sale de Rosales y lleva a la Casa de Campo. Bueno, sí, es verdad... Pero no fueron presentados, creo yo, como soluciones a los problemas de tráfico de la ciudad, como pasa con este. Incapaz de resolver los problemas a nivel de calle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;, tal vez a alguien se le ocurrió que todavía no había suficientes cables danzando...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" &gt;Buşteni Cable Car (Carpathian Mountains)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Teleférico de Buşteni (Cárpatos)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/2663957947_4019b7b190.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 379px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/2663957947_4019b7b190.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-6944780728386215930?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/6944780728386215930/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=6944780728386215930&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6944780728386215930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6944780728386215930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/going-to-work-by-car-by-cable-car.html' title='Going to work by car... by cable car / Teletransportándose al trabajo'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SY7QJS5tlVI/AAAAAAAAAVs/cPeUcakhVf0/s72-c/20090207_1213.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2031795863670891062</id><published>2009-02-05T19:07:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.337+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homeless'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vagabundos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cuarto Mundo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>La vieja que escribe</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;En la esquina de Regina Elisabeta con Calea Victoriei, bajo los soportales, vive una anciana vagabunda. Bajo los soportales, bajo la ventana sucia de una cafetería de paso, sentada en una caja que cubre con sus faldas inmensas, una parodia de miriñaque. Resguardada de los peatones y de la lluvia; no hace demasiado caso ni a los unos ni a la otra. No se lo reprocho. Tiene al lado un perro bien cuidado (mejor cuidado que ella misma), y dos o tres cuadernos sobre las rodillas a los que dedica toda su atención, sin hacer demasiado caso ni a los peatones ni a la lluvia. Y no se lo reprocho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con un cigarro en una mano, agarrando con fuerza un bolígrafo con la otra. ¿Dibujando, tal vez (pintora loca)? ¿Escribiendo poemas (escritora alcoholizada)? Me giro con disimulo (no sé por qué, si no me presta atención, peatón bajo la lluvia. Y no se lo reprocho) y alcanzo a ver, en una ráfaga, su cuaderno cuadriculado como un libro de cuentas, en el que se sucede una hilera de cifras que la mujer mira con atención (obsesión sin techo). Sin atender a los peatones, a la lluvia, al presente; concentrada tal vez en alguna afrenta, algún error, algún problema del pasado que no podrá ya resolver. Que tal vez ya ni quiera resolver siquiera, en realidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y no se lo reprocho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2031795863670891062?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2031795863670891062/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2031795863670891062&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2031795863670891062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2031795863670891062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/02/la-vieja-que-escribe.html' title='La vieja que escribe'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5865370803194591756</id><published>2009-01-25T18:09:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.570+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='&quot;Seismic Risk&quot;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='&quot;Riesgo seísmico&quot;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Seismic Risk, Class I</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Municipality of Bucharest is one of the capitals with the highest seismic risk in the world, suffering the impact of the earthquakes generated in the Vrancea seismic source, at 150 - 170 km epicentral distance. Historical information over one thousand years suggests a rate of 2-3 damaging earthquakes per century. In XX Century, there has been four major Vrancea earthquakes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table str="" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 339pt; text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" width="451" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;col style="width: 127pt;" width="169"&gt;  &lt;col style="width: 212pt;" width="282"&gt;  &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl26" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 127pt; font-weight: bold;" width="169" height="17"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Date&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="xl26" style="border-left: medium none; width: 212pt; font-weight: bold;" width="282"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Moment   Magnitude&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl24" style="border-top: medium none; height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;10th Nov 1940&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="xl24" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;7,7 Mw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl24" style="border-top: medium none; height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;4th March   1977&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="xl24" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;7,4 Mw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl24" style="border-top: medium none; height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;31st August   1986&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="xl24" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;6,9 Mw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;   &lt;td class="xl25" style="border-top: medium none; height: 12.75pt;" height="17"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;30th May 1990&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td class="xl24" style="border-top: medium none; border-left: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;7,1 Mw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The 1940 earthquake led to a first regulation of the Ministry of Public Works for earthquake resistant design (1943). On 4th March 1977, 21.20 local time, a 7,4-magnitude earthquake occurred, killing 1.570 people in Romania, and injuring around 11.000. The damages affected around 33.000 buildings and more than 700 factories, and were estimated by World Bank in two billion US dollars. Bucharest was severely affected: the earthquake caused the collapse of 32 buildings of 8-12 storeys, killing 1.424 people (90% of total casualties in Romania), while about 150 old buildings of 6 to 9-storeys were strongly damaged, many of them being subsequently demolished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The earthquake affected specially to tall (more than 6-7 storeys plus 2-3 setbacks) reinforced concrete buildings built in Bucharest historical centre before 1940, on the soft soil of city centre characterized by a long predominant period of ground vibration (1.4-1.6s), and designed without earthquake requirements. However, cheap concrete shear wall constructions built after that date were also damaged, showing the inadequacy of 1940 regulation with regards to the actual earthquake threat in the area. Thus, anti-seismic construction requirements were raised; after 1989, the anti-seismic regulation was reviewed again, out ruling some unsafe kind of buildings still being built until that date.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The 1986 and 1990 earthquakes took place at noticeably different depths than the 1940 and 1977 earthquakes, and caused no remarkable damages in Bucharest; however, the risk of seismic catastrophe remains high, giving the collapse probabilities of the existing pre-1940/45 buildings. In Bucharest there's 180-200 blocks of flats of this kind, with more than 27.000 inhabitants. In fact, only the 40% of the population of Bucharest live in safe ductile buildings built after the 1977 earthquake: 1,2 million people are subject to different degrees of risk in case of earthquake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Thus, anti-seismic policy, that has received constant support by international organizations and development agencies -World Bank funding and technical assistance from the Japanese JICA), is an important issue: amongst the prevention actions, the rehabilitation programme of Bucharest historical centre is one of the critical ones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;u&gt;Clădire Clasa I risc seismic&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;All over Romania, buildings pass a technical audit in order to catalogue them according to their damage probabilities in case of earthquake, and there's both national and local programmes of inspection and rehabilitation (consolidation) of old buildings considered at risk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Following technical audit, the buildings are divided in 4 types:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Class 4. No major risk in case of earthquake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Class 3. Small damages in walls or decorations that can endanger the safety of the inhabitants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Class 2. No major risk of collapsing in case of earthquake, but risk of structural damages. This kind of buildings has been only partially catalogued.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- Class I. Major risk of collapsing in case of an earthquake with a magnitude higher than 7. In general, pre-1940 buildings, already affected by previous earthquakes. Of these, blocks of flats of more than 6 storeys (that is, highly populated)  are considered a public danger, and its consolidation compulsory. Most (if not all) of these building has already passed technical audit in the 1990s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SXzMBhtfd2I/AAAAAAAAAVU/a6SfZ6CfJJA/s1600-h/RiscSeismic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SXzMBhtfd2I/AAAAAAAAAVU/a6SfZ6CfJJA/s200/RiscSeismic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295331588481972066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;All buildings class I are marked with a "red spot" indicating its state, and, despite what one might think, those "spotted" buildings are far of being empty or emptying:  shops, restaurants, nice hotels and offices can be found in buildings showing the red signal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Besides, the list of buildings that has passed the audit, and its classification, can be consulted at &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.pmb.ro"&gt;Bucharest City Hall&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mie.ro/index.php?p=1303"&gt;Regional Development and Housing Ministry&lt;/a&gt; websites. According to this list, 2639 buildings were inspected between 1993 and 2001, and 392 are catalogued as Seismic Risk Class I (126 of them, considered a public danger). According to Bucharest City Hall data (updated November 2008),  only 16 buildings have been consolidated...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;u&gt;Bd. Regina Elisabeta nr. 47&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I don't know if this is a exhaustive list; or rather, I doubt it is exhaustive, as I haven't found any reference to the 1910 building at Bd. Regina Elisabeta nr. 47, of great significance, as it is the Bucharest City Hall &amp;amp; Prefecture:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3222520739_a6eb2fa358.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 376px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3222520739_a6eb2fa358.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The red spot is not shown at the main façade, but in the right lateral, Strada Elie Radu, maybe to hide the shame. From my point of view, it's not a shame to be in a pretty building that happened to be built in 1910 and have some problems to be resolved, but to have been audited 10-15 years ago, with no consolidation works having been performed yet. It is difficult to trust an institution managing the local anti-seismic rehabilitation programme that has been, so far, incapable to rehabilitate its own headquarters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I have found some references on the consolidation project of the Bucharest City Hall Building in the Internet, which gives us some tips on corruption problems, political problems and administrative problems delaying this and other equally important projects included in Romanian development plans:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?id=34597&amp;amp;data=1999-11-21"&gt;November 1999&lt;/a&gt;. The Ministry publishes the list of buildings at major risk in case of earthquake (Class I), which includes Bucharest City Hall. The Mayor, Viorel Lis, signs a contract (without tender) of 12 million EUR for a 5-year consolidation project.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- 2000. The new Major, Traian Băsescu (currently Romanian President), cancel the contract. No tender for procurement is published for the project.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.gandul.info/administratia/sediul-primariei-capitalei-intra-in-consolidare-cu-functionarii-in-cladire.html?3933;2327308"&gt;June 2007&lt;/a&gt;. The City Council (Mayor: Adriean Videanu) approves a consolidation project. The cost of the works is estimated in 15 million EUR, and the works would begin in 2007 and finish by 2010.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/06/postcommunist-neoeuropean-elections.html"&gt;1 June 2008&lt;/a&gt;. Local and regional Elections. Sorin Oprescu is elected new Bucharest City Mayor. He stops many of the projects of the previous mayor; the City Hall consolidation, although suffer some delays, is assumed. (The future of other mayor projects regarding parking, road infrastructures, etc., remain unclear, as they have been redefined completely).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.gandul.info/administratia/sediul-primariei-capitalei-intra-in-consolidare-cu-functionarii-in-cladire.html?3933;2327308"&gt;January 2009&lt;/a&gt;. Tender for procurement closes (budget: 12 million EUR). The contract will be awarded in the following weeks, and the works should begin in March, lasting one year and a half, approximately.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5865370803194591756?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5865370803194591756/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5865370803194591756&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5865370803194591756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5865370803194591756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/01/seismic-risk-class-i.html' title='Seismic Risk, Class I'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SXzMBhtfd2I/AAAAAAAAAVU/a6SfZ6CfJJA/s72-c/RiscSeismic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-809671258680463009</id><published>2009-01-21T19:11:00.012+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.712+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Revolution Square'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estatuas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Statues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Those quiet evenings / Esas tardes en calma</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/3030555878_f2aa1dcdef.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 186px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/3030555878_f2aa1dcdef.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;No lo negaré: a veces Bucarest puede conmigo. Tal vez por eso me gustan tante las tardes en las que vuelvo a casa paseando. Paseando, sí: porque hay movimiento pero las calles no están hechas un lío, el tráfico es fluido y no hay demasiados coches aparcados en las aceras, y puedo andar descuidadamente, un poco en las nubes, un poco en la tierra. Esas tardes en las que incluso disfruto con la iluminación afectada y fantasmagórica del monumento que hay en la Plaza de la Revolución, que me recuerda que uno no tiene que vivir en una ciudad con una belleza sin fisuras para sentirse bien. Intentaré no olvidarlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SXds6FQFl0I/AAAAAAAAAVE/X2NdtQ4hrVQ/s1600-h/PotatobyNight+%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 184px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SXds6FQFl0I/AAAAAAAAAVE/X2NdtQ4hrVQ/s200/PotatobyNight+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293819632095172418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;I won 't deny it: Bucharest sometimes gets on my nerves. That's why I like those evenings where I walk back home and, strangely, the city is busy b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;ut not messy, with fluid traffic and a reasonable amount of cars parked on the sidewalks, leaving some room to walk carelessly, even wander. Those evenings where I even look with fondness at the ghostly iluminated Monument at Revolution Square, which reminds me that you don't have to be in a undoubtedly pretty city to be at ease. I'll try not to forget.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-809671258680463009?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/809671258680463009/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=809671258680463009&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/809671258680463009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/809671258680463009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2009/01/those-quiet-evenings-esas-tardes-en.html' title='Those quiet evenings / Esas tardes en calma'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SXds6FQFl0I/AAAAAAAAAVE/X2NdtQ4hrVQ/s72-c/PotatobyNight+%282%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-1839274942667267825</id><published>2008-12-23T06:29:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.329+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='propaganda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elections'/><title type='text'>Electoral promises - the aftermath</title><content type='html'>During electoral campaign, &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/oferta-temeraria.html"&gt;huge, irresponsible promises&lt;/a&gt;, were made. Now, it´s the new government task to try to make them true (or, as a local journalist-showman, &lt;a href="http://in-gura-presei.blogspot.com/"&gt;Micea Badea&lt;/a&gt;, said the other night, to start the "yes but no" discourse).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of these promises were related with raising salaries to teachers, doctors, policemen... The raising of salaries for teachers beginning in October 2008 was approved by the Parliament in September. I wondered then:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) How the hell a responsible Parliament could make a promise compromising a budget, the one of 2008, that has received approval in January, and, with no extra incomes, no extra money to allocate to that raising.&lt;br /&gt;2) How the hell a responsible Government will be able to fit that salary raising in next budgetary period, 2009. No doubt that salaries in Romanian education are low... However, no doubt either that Ministry of Education budget can´t easily handle such a raise (forget absolute numbers, let´s talk abour relative weight of the promise: a 50% raise, let´s not forget that).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I'm know leaving Romania for Christmas, and at last found data answering my two hell questions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) The raise from October was possible by transfering money already allocated for educational infrastructures (10% of the Ministry's total budget) to that raise. As a result: a) Ministry cannot pay some works already performed, but had not been invoiced before October. b) Ministry cannot begin pending works, school renovation, etc. An by the way, teachers have not received yet all the promised money (bureaucracy...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Inflation has been quite high in the last semester of the year; the RON/EUR rate in September was 3,6, more or less, and by the end of the year we have almost trespassed the psycological barrier of 4 RON/EUR. So well, if the tendency continues, maybe it will be able to raise the salaries after all... With no effect on teachers welfare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can´t have both, what's more important for education, good facilities or content teachers? Difficult decision... But there´s no need to promise anything if you´ll be having none. Think before talking. Make numbers before promising.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-1839274942667267825?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/1839274942667267825/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=1839274942667267825&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1839274942667267825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1839274942667267825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/12/electoral-promises-aftermath.html' title='Electoral promises - the aftermath'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-4796991789914213512</id><published>2008-12-21T18:45:00.012+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.507+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='propaganda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elections'/><title type='text'>Strada Verona, Bucharest (December 2008)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/3125711866_7527055658.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 218px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/3125711866_7527055658.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Walking through Strada Verona &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/strada-verona-bucureti.html"&gt;one more time&lt;/a&gt;, enjoying the graffities and stencils, &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/las-calles-de-bucarest.html"&gt;as it's my habit&lt;/a&gt;, finding this time a poster on 30th November Parliamentary Elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the country is a plunger-like piece of meat, so people didn't vote (30% participation in Bucharest, less that 40% in the whole country) but went out for the three-day weekend (Monday 1st December was a national holiday in Romania), as everyone knew would happen  (was that dat selected on purpose or just without thinking?)&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SU6F-pTOFyI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/zBP1Rf5ptwM/s1600-h/20081221_0991.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 163px; height: 242px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SU6F-pTOFyI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/zBP1Rf5ptwM/s200/20081221_0991.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282306724237023010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;One weekend at the mountains = 3 days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;One expressed vote = 4 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;Come to vote on 30th November!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;(PD-L 2008 campaign poster)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Anyway, the participation wouldn't have been high in any case: no high-quality campaign (I would like to find a country with high-quality political campaign, though), no feeling of change, no confidence on the system...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the results: the Parliament divided in thirds, and a government agreement between the conservatives (PD-L) and the socialdemocrats (PSD). Formally, an unnatural pact; and some people I know think likewise. Some others, however, think of it as a pact between two forms of past communist elites showing their real face...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who was more communist, who stole the most last time in power., who made promises, who carried them out.. Dunno, myself, as I lack, in order to take sides, a serious knowledge of Romanian political trackrecord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I won't do light ideological comments on this elections. But, what about governability? From my point of view, Romania need a stable government with capacity to make decisions, important decisions to counteract economical crisis and to encourage absortion of European funds granted for 2007-2013 period through adequately planned and managed development programmes. With Presidential elections to be held in Autumn 2009, I don't think THIS government will be able to be THAT government; even in the event that its members and the parliamentary groups supporting them get on well enough and the opposition behaves in a constructive way, tha political show will surely be on again in six months...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I've been told that this is not the first time in post-1989 Romania that such a weak, unnatural pact has been in office, and it lasted... So, once again, I'm quite speechless with regards Romanian politics. Maybe I shouldn't be doing light comments of any type, after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-4796991789914213512?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/4796991789914213512/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=4796991789914213512&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4796991789914213512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4796991789914213512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/12/strada-verona-bucharest-december-2008.html' title='Strada Verona, Bucharest (December 2008)'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SU6F-pTOFyI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/zBP1Rf5ptwM/s72-c/20081221_0991.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7104176418287850070</id><published>2008-12-06T19:01:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.627+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fiestas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Navidades'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Craciun'/><title type='text'>A month onwards: from St. Nicholas to the Three Wise Men</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stnicholas.kids.us/stnic/images/donkey-wmaster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 172px;" src="http://stnicholas.kids.us/stnic/images/donkey-wmaster.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Had I been still a child, had I been a Romanian child, had I been a child living in Romania, yesterday (5th December) I would have gone to bed early. I would have cleaned my shoes, put them on the window and go to bed early, waiting for St. Nicholas (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sfantul Nicolae, Moş Nicolae&lt;/span&gt;) to bring me some sweets or a new pair of boots on 6th December, Saint Nicholas day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.perfessorbill.com/nostalgia/hssanta.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 85px; height: 135px;" src="http://www.perfessorbill.com/nostalgia/hssanta.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;St. Nicholas will be back on 24th December, in his worldwide tour, disguised as Santa Clause and with a red suit sponsored by Coca-Cola. Many children will go to bed earl, wondering the presents to come on Christmas Day. Not my case (has I been younger, of course): at my house, during my childhood, we still followed the Three Wise Men (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Los Reyes Magos&lt;/span&gt;) tradition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2275/2093185007_9137cd1cd0.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 81px; height: 125px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2275/2093185007_9137cd1cd0.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Three Wise Men (Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar) come every 5th January from far away, from Middle East, from Arabia. Children, who have written a letter asking certain presents, go to see them when they arrive, in a big parade, throwing sweets and carrying presents for the children that have been good in their camels, the coal for those who have been naughty. Then, children come back home, leave water for the camels and Christmas seewts for the Three Wise Men, and hurry to bed: no matter if you have been good all year, if you see the Three Wise Men when they come to your house to leave the presents, you won't get any. Would I be still a child, I could get up early next 6th January, open my presents, have chocolate and "Roscón de Reyes" at breakfast, play all day and say good-bye to Christmas: I'd be back to school on 7th, maybe 8th January.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.prieteni.ro/uploads/artfoto/1600s_st_nicholas_150_copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 146px;" src="http://www.prieteni.ro/uploads/artfoto/1600s_st_nicholas_150_copy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In this world where kids are too well informed, I wish you all to have around during Christmas some child who still live under the illusion of a magical Christmas:  no matter if he or she sleeps badly on 5th December, on 24th December or in 5 January, but let him or her be nervous at least one day! And let us to smile with that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7104176418287850070?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7104176418287850070/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7104176418287850070&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7104176418287850070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7104176418287850070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/12/month-onwards-from-st-nicholas-to-three.html' title='A month onwards: from St. Nicholas to the Three Wise Men'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-4475951936991689510</id><published>2008-11-16T11:40:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.501+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='propaganda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2008'/><title type='text'>Tu, înainte de toate!</title><content type='html'>Este es el curioso slogan del PSD (Partido Socialdemócrata) en Bucarest para las elecciones parlamentarias rumanas del 30 de noviembre. ¿Individualismo socialista, un nuevo híbrido ideológico?&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Mereces toda la atención. Tú, antes que nadie"&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SR_7xuLjqpI/AAAAAAAAAT4/Wa0voccFR30/s1600-h/20081115_0910.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SR_7xuLjqpI/AAAAAAAAAT4/Wa0voccFR30/s320/20081115_0910.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269206920675437202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"You deserve all the attention. First of all, you"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; This is the PSD (Social Democrat Party) slogan in Bucharest for the parlamentary elections that will be held on 30 November. Socialist Individualism, is that so, a new ideological hybrid?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-4475951936991689510?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/4475951936991689510/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=4475951936991689510&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4475951936991689510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4475951936991689510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/11/tu-nainte-de-toate.html' title='Tu, înainte de toate!'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SR_7xuLjqpI/AAAAAAAAAT4/Wa0voccFR30/s72-c/20081115_0910.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7835712420867643610</id><published>2008-11-14T19:36:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.684+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year&apos;s eve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fiestas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nochevieja'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Revelion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Navidades'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Holidays'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Craciun'/><title type='text'>Organizamos la rebelión  de 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SR3GsGktESI/AAAAAAAAATw/rgwpT1Yem9I/s1600-h/Revelion2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SR3GsGktESI/AAAAAAAAATw/rgwpT1Yem9I/s320/Revelion2009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268585600074453282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Revelion", en rumano, es la fiesta de Fin de Año.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.D. Si os llevaran a celebrar Fin de Año en el sitio donde saqué la foto, probablemente os rebelaríais... es el típico sitio de Comuniones, Bodas y Bautizos, del tipo "nos encanta el canal de televisión Favorit". A ver, no me voy a poner purista y criticona del folklore rumano.... No creo que aguantara mucho tampoco un canal 24 horas de jotas y muñeiras:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PhzW1ONLLNE&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PhzW1ONLLNE&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7835712420867643610?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7835712420867643610/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7835712420867643610&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7835712420867643610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7835712420867643610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/11/organizamos-la-rebelin-de-2009.html' title='Organizamos la rebelión  de 2009'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SR3GsGktESI/AAAAAAAAATw/rgwpT1Yem9I/s72-c/Revelion2009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-6629865523571358768</id><published>2008-10-30T22:17:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:47:05.873+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alionka'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rusia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chocolate'/><title type='text'>Alionka</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ulan.de/products/images/info-images/TortAlionka.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 52px; height: 100px;" src="http://www.ulan.de/products/images/info-images/TortAlionka.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Vuelvo de nuevo de un viaje relámpago a Rusia, y me traigo conmigo tan sólo una tableta de chocolate Alionka. En realidad no es mi marca preferida, pero esta niña siempre me ha resultado muy cercana, y ahora, mientras cojo una onza, me hace compañía...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Farther East again, what did I bring with me back from Russia, an Alionka chocolate tablet. To tell the truth, it's not my favourite Russian chocolate brand, but this little girl always makes me feel more at ease...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-6629865523571358768?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/6629865523571358768/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=6629865523571358768&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6629865523571358768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6629865523571358768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/alionka.html' title='Alionka'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5058085044035061061</id><published>2008-10-25T14:54:00.013+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.514+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Estatuas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aviatorilor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Statues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comunismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='&quot;Lydia Kotzbue&quot;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Communism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Historia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>El Cristo de la Aviación</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SQMbsORVlTI/AAAAAAAAAQA/Rgu0rj7cOLo/s1600-h/Aviatorilor.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 92px; height: 138px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SQMbsORVlTI/AAAAAAAAAQA/Rgu0rj7cOLo/s200/Aviatorilor.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261079236257879346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Rumania, como España, es un país de importante tradición religiosa. Creo que la Iglesia Ortodoxa rumana (y en general todas las iglesias) goza de mejor salud en Rumania que la Católica en España, aunque me resisto a afirmarlo categóricamente: nunca me he aproximado esta cuestión seriamente, de una manera científica (número de creyentes y practicantes, interiorización de reglas sociales y éticas de conducta, peso socioeconómico y político de las respectivas iglesias), y tal vez me dejo engañar por mi propio entorno personal en España, profundamente agnóstico, por no decir ateo y anticlerical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En cualquier caso, son, sin lugar a dudas, dos países religiosos en lo que se refiere a su historia, sus tradiciones culturales y la geografía de sus ciudades. Las principales fiestas son fiestas de origen religioso que se esperan con impaciencia y se disfrutan igualmente aunque se las viva desprovistas de su peso religioso (Navidad, Semana Santa, procesiones y romerías, días grandes con sus patronos y patronas...). Por su parte, los pueblos y ciudades se construyen en torno a las iglesias y sus campanarios en España, en torno a sus iglesias porticadas y cruces pintadas en Rumania.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La religiosidad rumana se percibe muy bien en una de las estatuas principales de la ciudad, la estatua a los Héroes de la Aviación (&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Lydia Kotzbue, 1935&lt;/strong&gt;) que se encuentra en la Plaza de los Aviadores. Antes de conocer la fecha de realización, 1935, suponía que la estatua  era de la época comunista, por su estilo tan similar a las estatuas del realismos socialista. Pero no. Históricamente no. Desde el punto de vista de las corrientes artísticas, tal vez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Encuadrarla en el realismo socialista hubiera sido, en cualquier caso, demasiado simplificador, siendo, en realidad, una de las pocas Crucifixiones que he visto al aire libre, con su Cristo y sus plañideras. Este Cristo musculoso, estas vírgenes masculinas a sus pies, esta cristiandad clandestina, es para mí uno de los símbolos que me vienen a la mente cuando pienso en el siglo XX rumano, en lo poco que empiezo a conocer de él, de manera fragmentada y caótica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SQMck3-YYFI/AAAAAAAAAQI/cu962Yqz72o/s1600-h/Aviatorilor+%281%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SQMck3-YYFI/AAAAAAAAAQI/cu962Yqz72o/s320/Aviatorilor+%281%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261080209525334098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5058085044035061061?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5058085044035061061/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5058085044035061061&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5058085044035061061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5058085044035061061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/rumania-como-espaa-es-un-pas-de.html' title='El Cristo de la Aviación'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SQMbsORVlTI/AAAAAAAAAQA/Rgu0rj7cOLo/s72-c/Aviatorilor.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7185063564377690052</id><published>2008-10-09T15:58:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.635+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Street Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arte Urbano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Historia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Strada Verona, Bucureşti</title><content type='html'>La cita es la definición de socialismo realista, tal y como apareció reflejada por primera vez en una revista literaria soviética (Literaturnaya Gazeta) el 25 de mayo de 1932, marcando el fin del idilio de los vanguardistas y el gobierno comunista. El concepto de "hombre nuevo" es un concepto de doctrinas fascistas de los Legionarios de &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Zelea_Codreanu"&gt;Corneliu Codreanu&lt;/a&gt;.  Las pintadas de la pared (sólo se ve una parte en la foto) son francamente sugerentes y surrealistas.  La moraleja del conjunto: ni idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;The quote has been taken from an article published at the Soviet cultural journal Literaturnaya Gazeta on 25 May 1932, more or less when the love story between the artistic avant-garde and the Soviet power ended. The concept of New Man, from fascist ideas of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Zelea_Codreanu"&gt;Corneliu Codreanu&lt;/a&gt;´s Legionaries. The graffittis on the wall are quite appealing, and frankly unrealistic. The idea hiding behind the scene: I haven´t got a clue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SO4RWRqlDmI/AAAAAAAAAP4/srx9ovGI5uE/s1600-h/ViajeSofiaBucarest+103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SO4RWRqlDmI/AAAAAAAAAP4/srx9ovGI5uE/s400/ViajeSofiaBucarest+103.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255156889584733794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Las masas reclaman un realismo socialista honesto, verídico y revolucionario"&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;"Masses demand an honest, truthful and revolutionary socialist realism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;El Hombre Nuevo&lt;/span&gt;, octubre 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;The New Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;, October 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7185063564377690052?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7185063564377690052/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7185063564377690052&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7185063564377690052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7185063564377690052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/strada-verona-bucureti.html' title='Strada Verona, Bucureşti'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SO4RWRqlDmI/AAAAAAAAAP4/srx9ovGI5uE/s72-c/ViajeSofiaBucarest+103.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-8665365340737965641</id><published>2008-10-07T21:09:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.760+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elecciones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Ofertas temerarias</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Existe un concepto en el ámbito de las licitaciones públicas que habría que introducir en el mundo de la política: se trata del concepto de "oferta temeraria", término que define aquellas ofertas que establecen un coste desproporcionadamente bajo para los servicios o trabajos propuestos, en detrimento de la calidad de los mismos, y por tanto que deben ser desestimadas en el concurso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2659362030_5d0438feb6.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2659362030_5d0438feb6.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;En Rumania ha habido elecciones municipales en junio, y habrá elecciones generales en un par de meses; por eso estoy oyendo últimamente muchas ofertas temerarias. Kilómetros y kilómetros de carreteras, mejora en la calidad de vida, mejores servicios, políticos menos corruptos, recogida de basuras, depuración de aguas, circunvalación de centros urbanos. Todo todito todo se ejecutará en los próximos cuatros años, en un país a salvo de las convulsiones del sistema financiero internacional (donde, por cierto, el leu ha bajado en dos semanas de 3,6 RON/EUR a casi 4) donde la economía va a seguir creciendo, afirman, en los próximos años a más de un 20%, y la construcción, sobre el 10-12%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muchas ofertas temerarias... Algunas de las de reir por no llorar:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) ¿Xenofobia en Italia, paro creciente entre los inmigrantes rumanos en una Europa en recesión, necesidad de mano de obra cualificada en Rumania? La solución la tiene Mircea Geoană, el Presidente del PSD (Partido Social Demócrata), que en un mitin ante emigrados en Milán, prometió &lt;a href="http://www.realitatea.net/geoana-promite-romanilor-din-strainatate-20-000-de-euro-daca-se-intorc-in-romania_351211.html"&gt;20.000 Euros a los rumanos que volviera a Rumania a trabajar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) ¿Sueldos bajos y creciente coste de la vida en Rumania? &lt;a href="http://www.realitatea.net/pd-l-promite-in-programul-de-guvernare-un-salariu-mediu-de-900-de-euro-si-o-pensie-medie-de-405-euro_346551.html"&gt;Salarios medios de 900 euros, pensiones medias de 400 euros para 2009, promete el PD-L&lt;/a&gt;; el sueldo medio actual no supera los 300 euros, para que os hagáis idea del tamaño del farol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Pero hay faroles mayores, porque ¿para qué esperar? Sin medias tintas: el Parlamento (PSD+PD-L, aunque también diputados del PNL y de otros partidos han votado a favor)  ha aprobado una subida del 50% de los sueldos de los profesores a partir del 1 de octubre, aumentos del 20% en las pensiones para el 1 de noviembre, y  &lt;a href="http://www.realitatea.net/salarii-mai-mari-pentru-politisti--de-la-1-ianuarie-2009_350776.html"&gt;subidas de sueldo de un 10-20% para los policías&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.realitatea.net/c--p--tariceanu--guvernul-va-contesta-la-curtea-constitutionala-decizia-de-majorare-a-salariilor-profesorilor_358776.html"&gt;El Presidente  ha recurrido la decisión de aumentar el sueldo a los profesores&lt;/a&gt; (se trata de un sistema semipresidencialista al estilo francés), afirmando que el presupuesto no puede sostener una decisión tan temeraria y electoralista. Y probablemente tenga razón, ya que no sólo se trata de cuadrar los números para 2009, recortar allí y poner allá, sino que se pretende ejecutar esa decisión desde ya, sobre los presupuestos de 2008, que tendrán sus compromisos que soportar, compromisos que serán, por mucho dinero que se cuele entre las manos, muchos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tendrá razón el Presidente, y es triste reconocerlo, porque la verdad es que los sueldos en la enseñanza secundaria  no rebasan los 1.000 lei mensuales (unos 300 euros), y se trataba de aumentarlos hasta alcanzar los 1.700 lei (500 euros). El aumento de las pensiones en un 20% a partir del 1 de noviembre las situaría en 700 lei (2o0 euros). Aun así, y aunque le reconozca el problema presupuestario, las declaraciones de algunos de los partidarios del Presidente también me dan escalofríos: por la radio oí a una tertuliana afirmar, tan pancha, que los funcionarios públicos no tienen derecho a reclamar subidas salariales, porque su sueldo sale del bolsillo de todos. Con esta actitud el país tampoco va a ir para adelante...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOvCPPM4TmI/AAAAAAAAAPo/pO4zX-dJ2Hg/s1600-h/img011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOvCPPM4TmI/AAAAAAAAAPo/pO4zX-dJ2Hg/s200/img011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254506957292195426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Promesas temerarias por todas partes. Justo ahora acabo de recoger de mi buzón un folleto de propaganda que ofrece apartamentos y oficinas en un edificio nuevo "a 10 minutos de Plaza Victoriei y a 15 del aeropuerto de Otopeni". Sólo los que conozcáis Bucarest comprenderéis lo temerario de esta afirmación, visto el estado del tráfico y de las comunicaciones de la ciudad. Ofrecen facilidades de pago, no sé muy bien cómo en el contexto bancario internacional (ah, es verdad, que no afecta a Rumania, dicen algunos por la radio... habrá que creerlo) y con el sistema de hipotecas en pleno proceso de reforma, y por tanto con expedientes paralizados y/o a punto de paralizarse en los bancos mientras se adaptan a la nueva regulación (proceso que, según mi experiencia en este país durante este año, sabemos cuando empieza, pero veremos cuándo termina).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOvD2E5eKcI/AAAAAAAAAPw/wbe6kRbGP_k/s1600-h/Magheru.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOvD2E5eKcI/AAAAAAAAAPw/wbe6kRbGP_k/s200/Magheru.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254508724052961730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bueno, y para terminar este cúmulo de despropósitos con tono de sainete, un guiño a mis amigos de Moscú. Acabo de leer hoy que &lt;a href="http://www.ziare.com/Oprescu_a_gasit_la_Moscova_solutii_la_traficul_din_Bucuresti-427360.html"&gt;Bucarest recibe desde 2006 asesoría  de las autoridades moscovitas &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ziare.com/Oprescu_a_gasit_la_Moscova_solutii_la_traficul_din_Bucuresti-427360.html"&gt;para resolver el problema del tráfico&lt;/a&gt;... y que están tan contentos con la asesoría que han decidido prolongar el acuerdo. Recordadlo cuando estéis atrapados en vuestros propios atascos, debéis estar en una ciudad con un tráfico bien gestionado, y mira tú, ni os dais cuenta...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-8665365340737965641?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/8665365340737965641/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=8665365340737965641&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8665365340737965641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8665365340737965641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/oferta-temeraria.html' title='Ofertas temerarias'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOvCPPM4TmI/AAAAAAAAAPo/pO4zX-dJ2Hg/s72-c/img011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-1700238666448733000</id><published>2008-10-06T18:47:00.016+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.315+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anécdotas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='local habits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='work'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trabajo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anecdotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='usos locales'/><title type='text'>Regalos de empresa / Business presents</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOpPIwENORI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/PHqnCq40kNs/s1600-h/20081003_0746.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 251px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOpPIwENORI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/PHqnCq40kNs/s200/20081003_0746.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254098927041198354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;El otro día tenía una reunión de trabajo, de esas que suelo tener. Eran las diez de la mañana, y yo llegaba legañosa y saboreando todavía el primer café de la mañana en el paladar. "¿Un café, un té, tal vez agua?", me ofreció el director general mientras me invitaba a sentarme, "no, gracias, estoy bien así", respondí educadamente, y empezamos a hablar del asunto que me había traído hasta allí. A punto de acabar nuestra reunión, me dice el hombre, "así que ni café, ni té... pero vino sí querrás ¿o no?". "Es un poco pronto...", respondí, sorprendida, pero a la vez preparándome para beber por educación un vaso de vino que, realmente, no me apetecía nada a esas horas. No era la primera vez que me ofrecían alcohol en una reunión de trabajo antes del mediodía, había sido en otro país, en otra reunión, pero también un director genral, también del sector de la construcción. Aunque, la verdad, aquel hombre no me parecía del tipo que se toma un carajillo para desayunar. "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;O sticlă!&lt;/span&gt;", me aclaró. Una botella. Me quedé parada unos segundos, no entendiendo muy bien de qué iba el tema, y repasando mentalmente mi vocabulario rumano, que me juega más de una mala pasada. Pero sí: una botella, no había duda, quedó confirmado cuando levantó el teléfono y le pidió a su secretaria que me preparara una bolsa con dos botellas de vino rumano, una de blanco, otra de tinto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOpParWE9iI/AAAAAAAAAPY/U8A4dmajybw/s1600-h/20081003_0747.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 154px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOpParWE9iI/AAAAAAAAAPY/U8A4dmajybw/s200/20081003_0747.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254099235011622434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;No es la primera vez que me hacen regalos extraños durante reuniones de trabajo en Rumania, extraños al menos para mí y para cualquier que no sea un un presidente, un alcalde, tal vez una estrella de cine. Pero hace ya unos meses, durante mis primeras semanas en Rumania. yo llegué un 10 de febrero, y el 14 era San Valentín, el 1 de marzo el Día de la Primavera, el 8 de marzo el de la Mujer... Y en todas esas ocasiones, la costumbre local es regalar flores a las mujeres, grande ramos de rosas a las novias, esposas o madres, ramilletes de flores silvestres a las compañeras de trabajo o a las amigas. También yo recibí alguno de esos ramos durante mis visitas y reuniones de trabajo. Pero ya entrado marzo la época de repartir flores a diestro y siniestro se acabó. Aunque no lo creo, si hemos entradoen la época del reparto de vino y empiezo a recibir una botella en cada reunión mientras dure la vendimia, no os preocupéis, que ya os informaré...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: justify;"&gt;The other day, as usual, I went to visit a Romanian company, one of these working meetings I have. It was around 10 am, I had just had a coffee at home. I started to talk with the general manager about the issue that had brought me to his office. "Would you like a coffee, a tea, water?", he asked me. "I'm fine, thank you very much", I answered, and we went on talking. half an hour later he asked me again, "so you don't drink coffee, tea, water, but maybe wine?". "Not so early..." I has already been offered once cognac before 12 am, in other country, in other meeting, by other general manager, so while I answered I was also preparing myself to accept politely that glass of wine, a glass that was, truly, a too early glass of wine for me... Anyway, I was a bit surprised, that man didn't seem of the early-drinker type. "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;O sticlă&lt;/span&gt;!", he said.  A bottle. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOpSkT_7RsI/AAAAAAAAAPg/L_qAVA1vO8c/s1600-h/20081006_0839.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 167px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOpSkT_7RsI/AAAAAAAAAPg/L_qAVA1vO8c/s200/20081006_0839.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254102699078272706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;He called his secretary and asked her to prepare a bag with two bottles of Romanian wine, one of red wine and the other of white wine, for me to take home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;It's not the first time I've been given weird presents during business meetings in Romania, but I was taken by surprise (who wouldn't, by the way, unless you are a Prime Minister, a President, a King, used to such attentions) because that had happened some months ago, during the first weeks I spent in Romania. I arrived on 10th February: 14th February is St Valentine's day, 1st March is the Spring Day, 8th March the Women's Day...  In all these occasions women receive flowers, girlfriends and wifes receive big bouquet or roses, for example, but colleagues or friends, also receive small (nice) bouquets of wild flowers, or lilacs. So I received a couple of them, too, during business visits and meetings.  Then March ended, and that flower-giving habit disappeared. I suppose we have not entered in some wine-giving period, but don't worry, if I do get a bottle of wine every meeting I have in Autumn, I will let you know!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-1700238666448733000?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/1700238666448733000/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=1700238666448733000&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1700238666448733000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1700238666448733000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/some-business-anecdotes.html' title='Regalos de empresa / Business presents'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SOpPIwENORI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/PHqnCq40kNs/s72-c/20081003_0746.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-6401912361575908263</id><published>2008-10-01T19:14:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.584+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infraestructuras'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infrastructures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>El contrataque / Counterattack</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2397/2286728192_9ccaf67225.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 188px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2397/2286728192_9ccaf67225.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2202/2253887163_fd546ecd07.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2202/2253887163_fd546ecd07.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2904423899_e3a9c7984b.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 174px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2904423899_e3a9c7984b.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/2873422642_0a50314e76.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 165px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3231/2873422642_0a50314e76.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because nature is always wiser...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Porque la naturaleza es sabia...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-6401912361575908263?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/6401912361575908263/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=6401912361575908263&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6401912361575908263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6401912361575908263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/10/el-contrataque-counterattack.html' title='El contrataque / Counterattack'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-354135013631987189</id><published>2008-09-24T16:40:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.442+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deportes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Libros'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Londres'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skating'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='City'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Skateboarding'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nick Hornby'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ciudad'/><title type='text'>Surfing the city</title><content type='html'>I'm reading a book by &lt;a href="http://www.nicksbooks.com/"&gt;Nick Hornby&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Slam&lt;/span&gt; (2007), and his main character, a teenager, tells something about London that reminded me of Bucharest right away:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SNpYIOJnW3I/AAAAAAAAAPI/g6Id5hnLB78/s1600-h/0041231410879_M.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SNpYIOJnW3I/AAAAAAAAAPI/g6Id5hnLB78/s320/0041231410879_M.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249605213914356594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Whoever invented skating is a genius, in my opinion. London gets in the way of every other sport. There are tiny little patched of green where you can play football, or golf, or whatever, and the concrete is trying to eat them away. So you play these games in spite of the city and, really, it would be better if you lived just about anywhere else, out in the countryside, or the suburbs, or some place like Australia. But skating you do &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;because &lt;/span&gt;of the city. We need as much concrete and as many stairs and ramps and benches and pavements as you've got. And when the world's been completely paved over, we'll be the only athletes left, and there will be statues of famous skaters all over the world, and the Olympics will just be a million of different skating competitions, and then the people might actually watch. I will, anyway.&lt;/blockquote&gt;It sounds so right... But then, why don't I bump into skaters around here so often? Maybe Bucharest is a step further (or behind)... There's no lack of pavement, but of smooth pavement; plenty of stairs and ramps, but discontinuous ones, shabby and full of holes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just an idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I must be patient with this in-construction, promising city, but some days it's difficult, I get tired... Sorry about that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-354135013631987189?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/354135013631987189/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=354135013631987189&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/354135013631987189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/354135013631987189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/09/surfing-city.html' title='Surfing the city'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SNpYIOJnW3I/AAAAAAAAAPI/g6Id5hnLB78/s72-c/0041231410879_M.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-295474684891547447</id><published>2008-09-22T15:59:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.421+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Música'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leonard Cohen'/><title type='text'>Happy Birthday, Leo!</title><content type='html'>Leonard Cohen turned 74 years old, and he did it on the stage, in Bucharest, yesterday (21st September), and I was lucky enough to be there... A great concert, a long concert (almost 3 hours!): yes, that´s right, he´s 74 years old and can still perform during 3 hours... Looking happy, enjoying what he does, making us, who can´t sing but can listen, to enjoy ourselves too. A lively concert, but also a farewell concert; he´s not a dumb, he knows it well. We are not dumb either, at least not so dumb not to know it too. Thus, for those of you who couldn´t come along, for those of you who would have come along, also for you were meant his last words at the end of the concert: "Thank you for keeping my songs alive all these years".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But hey, maybe you still can go, share some time with Leonard Cohen and his great backup musicians, as the &lt;a href="http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/tour2008-1.html"&gt;Leonard Cohen World Tour 2008-2009&lt;/a&gt; hasn´t finished yet! He didn´t leave Europe yet! Take your chance! They are still new venues to be added for 2009... But in the meantime, I will share with you some moments of the concert (all my gratitude to the anonymous "You Tubers", in this case &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/drstana"&gt;drstana.&lt;/a&gt;..):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/grkyVQ5n9Vc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/grkyVQ5n9Vc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, he sang one of my favourites, "First We Take Manhattan". A great singer has always great followers: my Spanish friends will know "Manhattan", from Omega album (Morente/Lagartija Nick), which deserves a wider audience:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed sr=""&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.boomp3.com/player.swf?song=c181fd0qc_h" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" align="middle" height="20" width="200"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;a style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); letter-spacing: -1px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" href="http://boomp3.com/listen/c181fd0qc_h/04-manhattan-first-we-take-manhattan"&gt;Boomp3.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And although he didn't sing another of my favourites, Boogie Street, I didn't mind that much: maybe  I can't sing, but I have learned to hum quietly, and in my heart I always will be back, and back, and back to Boogie Street...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rswKZ0PNY_0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rswKZ0PNY_0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-295474684891547447?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/295474684891547447/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=295474684891547447&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/295474684891547447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/295474684891547447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/09/happy-birthday-leo.html' title='Happy Birthday, Leo!'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7802864691676883288</id><published>2008-09-10T18:50:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.676+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parques'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Let's go "parking"</title><content type='html'>I live in a city where walking is not allowed... or at least so it seems some days, when pedestrians have to walk on the road because cars took over the pathways, when construction sites melt down destructively and invade the streets, when you can't look up at the beautiful faсades because  you're too busy watching the floor... However, I somewhat cannot be completely mad at a city with such huge and nice parks. Bucharest may be a highly polluted city, but I think it might be the greenest polluted city I've ever been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the streets push you out, and you don't feel like staying at home, there's two things you can do in Bucharest: either you go shopping or you go "parking". There's many parks scattered around the city: huge forests like Herastrau, wide meadows like Titan or Tineretului, English gardens like Cismigiu or Botanic Garden. Lively parks, all-age parks where you can find children and mothers, old people spending the day (sad people spending the night), teenagers, couples, dog owners and disowned dogs, birds, frogs...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bikes everywhere; the very bikes you hardly see on the bycicle lanes. Teenagers playing ball, badmington: pensioners playing backgammon, draughts or chess. Ponds with boats and terraces and, very often, a small amusement park with some some roller coasters, jumping beds  and bumber cars. On Sundays, an orchestra plays folk music at Cismigiu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SMgLWXWpmQI/AAAAAAAAAO4/i9V92VLdfs8/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SMgLWXWpmQI/AAAAAAAAAO4/i9V92VLdfs8/s400/untitled.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244454244926986498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There's a couple of things I've seen people doing in Bucharest parks I hadn't seen before, not in Spain. Right now, I can recall three. One: Romanians do like a lot cotton sugar, not only children but also grown ups buy and eat it (I think I haven't since I was 10 or even less). Two: you can weight yourself, there's some people that sells sweeties, pop corn or sweet corn, there's painters and cartoonists, and there's also other people that let you weight yourself on a bathroom scale. Three: a weird "park" sport, like a tennis doubles match, but using a football ball and feet. I've asked around and none was able to give me a clue on the rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love to wander around these parks, dodging bikes and scatters, listening the distant hum made by 20 games of chess being played at the same time in some clear beyond the trees, wondering if I am already too old to eat pink sugar cotton... or maybe just too Spanish.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7802864691676883288?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7802864691676883288/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7802864691676883288&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7802864691676883288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7802864691676883288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/09/lets-go-parking.html' title='Let&apos;s go &quot;parking&quot;'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SMgLWXWpmQI/AAAAAAAAAO4/i9V92VLdfs8/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2428377434304462116</id><published>2008-09-02T22:13:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.352+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Atracciones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parachute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Historia'/><title type='text'>Torre de Paracaidismo (Parachute Tower)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SL2e4ZWpSII/AAAAAAAAAOo/zwLcfLF3PsY/s1600-h/Parashutisti.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SL2e4ZWpSII/AAAAAAAAAOo/zwLcfLF3PsY/s320/Parashutisti.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241520233044854914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;¿Alguien quiere saltar?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta torre de entrenamiento para saltos en paracaídas está en Cluj; hay otra en Bucarest, aunque en peor estado... He encontrado algunas referencias sobre existencia de torres similares en Bakú (Azebaiján), Katowice (Polonia) y algunas bases militares de Estados Unidos. Poco más. Es ya tan raro encontrar algo poco documentado en la web que casi me parece desenterrar un pedacito de historia...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La información (poca y fragmentada) que he encontrado en la web es, en cualquier caso, bastante curiosa. Al parecer, este tipo de torres se construyeron entre los años 30 y 40, y se han llegado a utilizar hasta los 80 para entrenamiento de paracaidistas (fundamentalmente para entrenamiento militar). La idea es de origen ruso (¿por qué será que no me sorprende?). &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://history.amusement-parks.com/Steeplechase/Parachute%20Drop/parachutedropcard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 243px;" src="http://history.amusement-parks.com/Steeplechase/Parachute%20Drop/parachutedropcard.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Allí se habían utilizado desde los años 20, con la estructura de madera; un comandante estadounidense avispado, James H. Strong, vio el negocio, diseñó un prototipo de una versión mejorada con estructura de metal y se aseguró la patente para Estados Unidos. Vendió varias al ejército en Estados Unidos... ¡y en Rumania! (¿Guerra Fría bolsillo caliente?). Pero muy pronto se empezaron a construir no sólo como equipamiento militar, sino como entretenimiento... La más famosa parece ser una en Coney Island, que ya nació con ese propósito, y que llaman "la Torre Eiffel de Brooklyn". También hubo una, al parecer, en el Gorki Park de Moscú. Quién lo iba a pensar, así que hasta los Parques de Atracciones deben una parte de su desarrollo a la innovación militar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wanna jump?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a parachute jump training tower situated in Cluj; there's another one I've seen in Bucharest, but in much worse shape. I found in the Internet some reference to similar towers in Katowice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; (Poland), Baku (Azebaijan) and US military bases, but no more. Nowadays it is so strange to find something that has less than 1.000 references in Google that I feel as if I was unveiling a hidden secret from past...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/3-1935/parachute_tower.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 434px;" src="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/3-1935/parachute_tower.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The few and fragmented information I found is, in any case, quite amusing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. Apparently,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; thse kind of towers were built in 1930s-40s, and were used for training (military, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mainly) of parachutists. The Russians invented this training system (that doesn't surprise me, somehow), using wooden structures for military training of pilots since the 20s. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;James H. Strong, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a smart US Comander swa t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;he business opportunity, designed a prototype with a metallic structure and obtained the US patent for it. He sold severla to US army... and to Romania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;! (Cold War?). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Very soon he started to adapt them to be used also for entertainment;  the most famous one, in Coney Island ("the Brooklyn Eiffel Tower") was built for that purpose from the very beginning. It also used to be one of this kind in Moscow Gorki Park... Who could think that even Adventure Parks owe their development to military innovation...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2428377434304462116?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2428377434304462116/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2428377434304462116&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2428377434304462116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2428377434304462116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/09/torre-de-paracaidismo-parachute-tower.html' title='Torre de Paracaidismo (Parachute Tower)'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SL2e4ZWpSII/AAAAAAAAAOo/zwLcfLF3PsY/s72-c/Parashutisti.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-1819314629396766987</id><published>2008-08-31T20:15:00.023+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.322+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dracula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tourism'/><title type='text'>A Transylvania &amp; Bucovina non-Dracula tour</title><content type='html'>Some friends came over during my holidays and we made a short, 8-days, 1.300 km. trip from Bucharest to Transylvania and Moldavia. &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;[Don't mistake Moldavia -Romanian region- with the Republic of Moldova -an independent country-]&lt;/span&gt;. An orientative map of our route is the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLrnjF9fnrI/AAAAAAAAANo/TfdznhLOcmQ/s1600-h/img010c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLrnjF9fnrI/AAAAAAAAANo/TfdznhLOcmQ/s320/img010c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240755706480533170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We were not after the Dracula's legend (supposedly based on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_the_Impaler"&gt;Vlad Ţepeş&lt;/a&gt;), but maybe it will be more entertaining to describe our trip related with the Dracula tour, as most of names if cities and regions will say nothing to you, and Dracula is a well-known character. So beware, a vampire is hiding behind these lines...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After some problems with car hiring, we headed West, taking one of the only two motorways currently existing in Romania, the one to Piteşti. The traffic jam in Piteşti was huge and, still with a fresh memory of the traffic jam suffered in Bucharest, we decided to take the risk and take a secondary road. A very lucky choice, as there was no traffic, and we passed by a bunch of nice Wallaquian vilages on our way to Curtea de Argeş, where the  &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transf%C4%83g%C4%83r%C4%83%C5%9Fan"&gt;Transfăgărăşan road&lt;/a&gt; to cross the Carpathians starts, leading to Sibiu through &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A2lea_Lake"&gt;Bâlea &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A2lea_Lake"&gt;glacier lake&lt;/a&gt; (2,034 meters of altitude). With most of the national roads under repairing works, we did the same many other times, always a good option if the weather is good and the sun is still on the sky, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLsWHoBXIgI/AAAAAAAAAOg/BFITUIOJq1I/s1600-h/Retro-Visor.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLsWHoBXIgI/AAAAAAAAAOg/BFITUIOJq1I/s200/Retro-Visor.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240806911633728002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;as at night the walking peasants, bikes, horse carts, cattle and straw dogs are no more part of the landscape and become a real danger... More danger of killing than  of being killed, but it's not, in any case, a confortable environment to drive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just where the Carpathians begins lay the ruins of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poienari_Castle"&gt;Poienari Citadel&lt;/a&gt;, the main fortress used by the Wallaquian prince Vlad Ţepeş against the Turks during the second half of XVth Century. If you have to chose one, this would be &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the "real" Dracula fortress&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLr0bop3xTI/AAAAAAAAAN4/2l7otVVXvi8/s1600-h/Ojos+Sibiu.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLr0bop3xTI/AAAAAAAAAN4/2l7otVVXvi8/s200/Ojos+Sibiu.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240769872005678386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We stayed two days in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibiu"&gt;Sibiu&lt;/a&gt;, a beautiful Saxon town (&lt;span lang="de"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Herma&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="de"&gt;&lt;i&gt;nnstadt &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;in German) that was 2007's European Capital of Culture, and had subsequently its historical centre renovated. The "eyed" roofs are maybe its more remarkable feature. Then, on our way to Bukovina we visited &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_Iulia"&gt;Alba Iulia&lt;/a&gt; and Cluj-Napoca, watching from the distance the impressive Turda gorge, other Romanian natural wonder we had to leave behind. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca"&gt;Cluj-Napoca&lt;/a&gt; (Kolozsvár in Hungarian) is, with 300.000 inhabitants, the third largest city in the country, an important economical, cultural and scientific center whose buildins whispers about a rich XIX Century bourgeois history, and whose statues, flags and graffities shouts about the complex Magyar-Romanian relationship. Had I chosen national feelings and interethnic relations as the driving idea of my story, Cluj (ruled by the ultranationalist mayor Gheorghe Funar, from  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;România Mare&lt;/span&gt; -Big Romania-, between 1992 and 2004) would have deserved, for sure, a whole chapter. But I chose Dracula instead, and we must move forward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLsDNMVEBAI/AAAAAAAAAOA/H5LxDZIjWlI/s1600-h/Humor+%284%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLsDNMVEBAI/AAAAAAAAAOA/H5LxDZIjWlI/s200/Humor+%284%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240786116558455810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We headed East and passed Bistriţa, leaving Transilvania for Bucovina just for a couple of days. We visited some of the famous, UNESCO-honored &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_monasteries"&gt;painted monasteries&lt;/a&gt; from our "base camp"at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gura_Humorului"&gt;Gura Humorului&lt;/a&gt;, a summer location, a shtetl without Jews, a remembrance of recent, non-literary terrors. 100 km before, in the border between Transilvania and Bucovina, is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihu%C5%A3a_Pass"&gt;Tihuţa pass&lt;/a&gt; (or Borgo Pass, according to Bram Stocker) the entrance to Dracula realms, the Bârgău Mountains, another impressive landscape in this hilly country made of ups and downs. So, if you want, you can call this place &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the "fictional" Dracula homeland&lt;/span&gt;, although Vlad Ţepeş never put a foot on this area, and no castle or fortress ever existed. There is now a "Hotel Castel Dracula" in Piatra Fântânele, at the top, that is more respectful with the environment than one would have expected, with very few "thematic park" elements appart from the name. Not a bad place to stop by; Lemonade is served cold, I don't know about blood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLsPan_mEDI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/DKjfcaKiOUo/s1600-h/LaculRosu+%284%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLsPan_mEDI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/DKjfcaKiOUo/s200/LaculRosu+%284%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240799541462437938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On our way back to Transilvania we went fast accross Neamţ region to spend more time at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicaz_Gorge"&gt;Bicaz gorge&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.ici.ro/romania/en/turism/c_lacurosu.html"&gt;Lacul Roşu&lt;/a&gt; (the Red Lake), one of the most weird places I've ever seen: a lake created by an landslide in 1838, where the fosilized remnants of dead trees still can be seen. Another good spot to dream of camping and hiking, another good location for made-up terror stories about lost camp children or flooded villages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLsQyMkO2QI/AAAAAAAAAOY/0228XVJY45o/s1600-h/VistasBrasov+%281%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLsQyMkO2QI/AAAAAAAAAOY/0228XVJY45o/s200/VistasBrasov+%281%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240801045928401154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We spent our last three days back in Saxon Transilvania, visiting &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%C5%9Fov"&gt;Braşov&lt;/a&gt; (Kronstadt in German) , &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejmer"&gt;Prejmer Peasant Fortress&lt;/a&gt; (a very special fortified church), &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/day-in-country.html"&gt;Bucegi Mountains&lt;/a&gt;... Being in a reasonable distance from Bucharest (let's not messure on km here, but on driving hours, 2-4), so maybe still some of you reading this will be come and visit these places or others we couldn't visit because of lack of time: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sighisoara"&gt;Sighisoara&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C4%83g%C4%83ra%C5%9F"&gt;Fărăgaş&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piatra_Craiului"&gt;Piatra Craiului&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaia"&gt;Sinaia&lt;/a&gt;... And &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Castle"&gt;Bran Castle&lt;/a&gt;, "Dracula's castle", a war fortification with no relation either with Bram Stocker's Dracula or Vlad Ţepeş life that, once reconstructed, became one of the many summer residences of Habsburg royal family during XX Century. At an easy distance from Bucharest (1,5-2 hours), some smart guy noticed its touristic potential, sticked a poster at the entrance and won the game. Thus, you visit a worthy place, but with a very different story (Habsburg-related) than expected, and with the surroundings spoilt by oversized Dracula souvenir shops. Let's call it, then, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the "touristic" Dracula's Castle&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then just the way back to Bucharest left, through Prahova Valley and Dambobiţa County, from Bucharest surroundings to its outskirts,  from the outskirts to its distant neighbourhoods, and from there to the city centre, to Cişmigiu park, where everything started and where no vampire has ever be seen. However, some evenings, while hearing the birds croaking like crazy when the sunset comes, I can't help thinking of Hitchcock's birds...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-1819314629396766987?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/1819314629396766987/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=1819314629396766987&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1819314629396766987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1819314629396766987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/08/transylvania-bucovina-non-dracula-tour.html' title='A Transylvania &amp; Bucovina non-Dracula tour'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SLrnjF9fnrI/AAAAAAAAANo/TfdznhLOcmQ/s72-c/img010c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-8227280479310339861</id><published>2008-07-29T04:54:00.016+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.717+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cuarto Mundo'/><title type='text'>La ciudad es nuestra</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6MllC9oqI/AAAAAAAAANQ/xxK5xrCmoyM/s1600-h/2281942611_43bd6fa41b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6MllC9oqI/AAAAAAAAANQ/xxK5xrCmoyM/s200/2281942611_43bd6fa41b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228270794651312802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Oraşul e al nostru", la ciudad es nuestra: no quiero olvidar a los deheredados de la tierra, al cuarto mundo que se esconde en la gran ciudad, a los borrachos sin remedio, los solitarios enloquecidos, los ancianos de pensión ínfima, las madres gitanas mendicantes, sus hijos mendigando también a dos manzanas de distancia, los niños de la calle, los adolescentes de la calle, los perros abandonados... todas las clases de vagabundos que uno se encuentra en esta gran ciudad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6MLk7DG6I/AAAAAAAAANI/fZjLYTjk1b4/s1600-h/2693735246_25e5efea71.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6MLk7DG6I/AAAAAAAAANI/fZjLYTjk1b4/s200/2693735246_25e5efea71.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228270347941518242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Porque si bien es verdad que uno se encuentra menos miseria de la que esperaba cuando bajó del avión a este país desconocido, o mal conocido, que no tiene nada que ver con la imagen que tenemos de él, la vergüenza del cuarto mundo existe. Y la vergüenza de los abandonados en la carrera hacia el capitalismo (todos esos pensionistas mendicantes) también. Pero sí, es cierto, menos de la que uno esperaba. Una unidad de medida un tanto personal de la miseria urbana sería evaluar cuánto tarda uno en ser plenamente consciente de este cuatro mundo que le rodea.... Por ejemplo, en Quito, Ecuador, estuve sólo 36 horas, y desde la primera fui dolorosamente consciente de los niños de la calle, de esos niños de la calle tan apartados de todo que han perdido el don de la comunicación, nunca lo tuvieron, nadie les ha enseñado, y saben hablar lo justo para pedir unos pesos, acercar la caja limpiabotas, enseñar unos chicles, animalitos de seis, cinco, cuatro... tres años. En Bucarest no sé si fue el efecto sorpresa de las luces de la ciudad, pero tardé en percibir plenamente sus sombras. Sin embargo, hay cuestiones en las que no valen relativizaciones, comparativas, proporciones (hay más, hay menos): la aspiración es el absoluto, la nada, kaput, finito, aquí, en Madrid, en Nueva York, en Moscú... Aquí y en China, como decimos en mi tierra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6Mlju-LmI/AAAAAAAAANY/DzVPR1qgkmo/s1600-h/2706735151_30df97e9aa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6Mlju-LmI/AAAAAAAAANY/DzVPR1qgkmo/s200/2706735151_30df97e9aa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228270794299027042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Me duelen los ancianos de esquina, que no extienden la mano para pedir porque les cuesta horrores hacer lo que están haciendo, pero piden igualmente, y agradecen murmurando y mirando hacia el suelo. Me duelen los niños de la calle, y los adolescentes de la calle que pasean en manada, como animales gregarios, sin pudor, sin pensamientos, apretando algunos de ellos su bolsa de pegamento. Me duelen los vagabundos locos y las madres mendicantes, presentes en todos los agujeros del mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me duelen los perros de la calle, pero menos que en otras ciudades; en general se les cuida, existe una cierta costumbre de "adoptarlos" en las comunidades de vecinos. Aun así, los perros abandonados conservan una mirada de dolor y perplejidad ante el abandono, y el resto, los callejeros de toda la vida, que parecen más satisfechos... habrá que verlos, como la cigarra, en invierno y en la nieve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6MLeAJx9I/AAAAAAAAANA/gf9wzTFXEZs/s1600-h/2658581589_14208b48d8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6MLeAJx9I/AAAAAAAAANA/gf9wzTFXEZs/s200/2658581589_14208b48d8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228270346083878866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Pero en cualquier caso me duelen menos; tal vez poque he carecido siempre (lo confieso) de esa empatía con los animales que algunos tienen, tal vez porque sigo reservando la mayor parte de mi corazón para las personas.&lt;br /&gt;Y también de mi pudor: por eso todas las fotos que veis aquí son de perros. Porque aunque en mis paseos con la cámara de fotos me encontrado con estampas magníficas (tal vez sea mejor decir "magníficas"), me cuesta sacar la cámara, robarles a los dueños de lo oscuro de la ciudad una imagen, y sobre todo no soy capaz de hacerlo de cerca y arriesgarme a que se den cuenta, a que me vean. Acostumbrados como están a ser parte del mobiliario urbano, tratados como tal, ya tienen bastante todos los días como para que venga yo con mi cámara y con la excusa del costumbrismo a recordarles una vez más que son un mero objeto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así y todo, espero haber conseguido transmitir con palabras lo que decidí no plasmar en imágenes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-8227280479310339861?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/8227280479310339861/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=8227280479310339861&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8227280479310339861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8227280479310339861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/la-ciudad-es-nuestra.html' title='La ciudad es nuestra'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SI6MllC9oqI/AAAAAAAAANQ/xxK5xrCmoyM/s72-c/2281942611_43bd6fa41b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-3701172812430075565</id><published>2008-07-22T21:49:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.451+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Street Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arte Urbano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Las calles de Bucarest</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/2659303478_fae8fae221_t.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; 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So I did some research and decided that the following Saturday I would be taking an early train to &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu%C5%9Fteni"&gt;Buşteni&lt;/a&gt;, situated in the closest area of Carpaths from Buc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;harest (&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucegi_Mountains"&gt;Bucegi Mountains&lt;/a&gt;), to take a look around.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOjECNqqNI/AAAAAAAAAK4/BHmL2D7VODY/s1600-h/img009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOjECNqqNI/AAAAAAAAAK4/BHmL2D7VODY/s320/img009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225199282388904146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Besides, in Buşteni there's a cable train that goes up to 2.200 meters of altitude, to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Cabana Babele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;. So my plan was taking the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;otel Silva&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; cable train (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;telecabina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;), see around and, if the track signals were as clear as I has been told they were, to do a little hiking by myself. Then, if I wanted to come back (which I suspected would happen), c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;onvince some people I know in Bucharest to come along next weekend. Maybe sleep in the mountains, as, apart from the usual Romanian free camping (even in Natural Parks you can settle your tent) the area has a great "Cabana" (meaning "hut") system: about 20-25 stone and wooden houses scattered in different valeys in the region, where you can rest, use toilets, eat something, and find lodging. The origin of Romanian &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Cabanas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, like Spanish &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Parado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;res&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, lays in the 1920s-30s, one of these great ideas that should be mentioned, I suppose, in any history of tourism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOlNmk7WQI/AAAAAAAAALQ/cSFSUTTCQj0/s1600-h/P7190128.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 105px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOlNmk7WQI/AAAAAAAAALQ/cSFSUTTCQj0/s200/P7190128.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225201645792221442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOkvo890EI/AAAAAAAAALA/Kz8YZAm-Oc4/s1600-h/CabanaCaraiman.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 108px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOkvo890EI/AAAAAAAAALA/Kz8YZAm-Oc4/s200/CabanaCaraiman.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225201131033841730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cabana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Babele (2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;.200 m), and Cabana Caraiman (2.028 m)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[A "Parador" is a luxury hotel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt; and high-quality regional-cuisine restaurant situated inside&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt; so&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;me historical building, such a castle, monastery or fortress. It allowed many of this buildings to be taken care of instaed of destroyed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;, and promoted local tourism, as eating in a Parador is a quite common excuse for a family or couple weekend trip]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOmERL1YBI/AAAAAAAAALY/7hCEv7T6tBI/s1600-h/Telecabina+Busteni.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOmERL1YBI/AAAAAAAAALY/7hCEv7T6tBI/s200/Telecabina+Busteni.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225202584942632978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOmdXXHWyI/AAAAAAAAALg/THdeDvYowmM/s1600-h/Telecabina+Busteni+%282%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOmdXXHWyI/AAAAAAAAALg/THdeDvYowmM/s200/Telecabina+Busteni+%282%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225203016097291042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But let's  go back to the Carpaths. Of course I was delighted, of course I wanted to c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;ome back next weekend: take the earliest cable train (I had suffered a big queue, although I had arrived at 10.30 -8.30 train from Bucharest, a 2-hours-trip), seek a not very sheer track (I'm not in good shape) and enjoy sights, fresh air, good company...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Well, my "calling force" seemed quite high on Mon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;day, but by Thursday only one person agreed to come... The idea of taking the 6.30 train from Gara de Nord had persuaded the rest againt it. But hey, there's this Spanish saying, "Three people is a already a crowd", and popular saying are always very wise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIO2SVORC9I/AAAAAAAAAMw/pcDZn7S88bk/s1600-h/HaciaPiatraArsa.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 99px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIO2SVORC9I/AAAAAAAAAMw/pcDZn7S88bk/s200/HaciaPiatraArsa.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225220418730789842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So we took off, the two of us. The weather forecast was"clear with clouds" and we soon found out to be true: luckily, no rain; interestingly, half of our hiking either surrounded by mist (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;negură)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, or sightseeing it. This time we got off at &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaia"&gt;Sinaia&lt;/a&gt; and walked 45 minutes up to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Ho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;tel Alpin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; cable train &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOpKe3LBfI/AAAAAAAAALo/v2GPlOTWOzs/s1600-h/PiatraArsa+%283%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 96px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOpKe3LBfI/AAAAAAAAALo/v2GPlOTWOzs/s200/PiatraArsa+%283%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225205990228166130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;[by mistake, I wanted to t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;ake the other one, in the center of Sinaia, but it was a worthy mistake, no queue at all]. The cable train leaded from 1400 m. to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Cabana Mioriţa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Furnica &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;("The Ant") &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mount &lt;/span&gt;(2100 m).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;[Pr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;ahova Valley, where both Sinaia and Buşteni lay, is situated 900 m. above the sea, aproximately]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;We didn't follow exactly the path I had planned, from&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; Furnica to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Piatra Arsă &lt;/span&gt;("Burnt Stone"), then &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Peştera &lt;/span&gt;("The Ca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;ve")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, then &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;abele &lt;/span&gt;(The "Old W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;omen") and, depending on my own tiredness and the state of my friend knee (that would suffer in sharp descents), back to Buşteni either by foot or by cable train. We got a bit lost at the beginning and changed our route, luckly, because it was too ambicious, anyway, from me, who could just follow the rythm of my companions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; 1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; A qu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;ite sporting guy, but whose knee was damaged and, morevover, decided&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; at some point to carry my bag.&lt;br /&gt;2) A 50-year old Romanian man &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;who h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;ad been a guide in Bucegi Mountains for 10 years, but 10 years had passed since, and he hadn't come bach on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;ce since. H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;e was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;carrying a 30kg bag pack and wearing heavy, old mountain boots.&lt;br /&gt;3) His son, a 25-year-old boy that wa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;s acompanying h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;is father for the first time, and was in such a bad shape as myself, but carrying an&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;other 30 kg instead of nothing but my camera, once Jose decided to carry all our sandwiches and water.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIO5ZZs1tCI/AAAAAAAAAM4/ECfRn3-pTos/s1600-h/HaciaPiatraArsa+%282%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIO5ZZs1tCI/AAAAAAAAAM4/ECfRn3-pTos/s200/HaciaPiatraArsa+%282%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225223838726730786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;We met this other two in the middle of the mist, in our way to Piatra Arsă, and went together all the way to Babele, not going &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIO0tknlxQI/AAAAAAAAAMo/N3W2uwKWPKY/s1600-h/PinoCembro.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 98px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIO0tknlxQI/AAAAAAAAAMo/N3W2uwKWPKY/s200/PinoCembro.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225218687696749826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;down to Peştera, but walking between &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cocora Mount &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jepii Mountains&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;through a quite curious fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;rest of bush-like dwarf pines (larch-cembra pine)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Nice company, to walk and also to have a merited &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;soup (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ciorbă&lt;/span&gt;) together at Cabana Babele... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOyvpPcIJI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/Va7ulrtMe8Q/s1600-h/P7190105.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 113px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOyvpPcIJI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/Va7ulrtMe8Q/s200/P7190105.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225216524274114706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;They were&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; staying for the night, so we said good bye and took the cable train down to Busteni. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;he mist ("w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;e wouldn't see anything interesting, and besides, could be dangerous if we get lost") was the perfect excuse for both of us, who were really tired, for not walking any more, and have beer (well merited too) instead, while waiting our train back to Bucharest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But still, I didn't stay for the night up there! So there's still new experiences waiting for me at the Carpaths... Let's see when and how!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOzQ-QckxI/AAAAAAAAAMY/K9VAjMFcnvo/s1600-h/P7190087.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOzQ-QckxI/AAAAAAAAAMY/K9VAjMFcnvo/s200/P7190087.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225217096851165970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Me, myself and my camera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-1142957696131939477?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/1142957696131939477/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=1142957696131939477&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1142957696131939477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/1142957696131939477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/day-in-country.html' title='A Day in the Country'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SIOjECNqqNI/AAAAAAAAAK4/BHmL2D7VODY/s72-c/img009.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7663698228412573061</id><published>2008-07-13T21:00:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.669+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sociedad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coffee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Café'/><title type='text'>Canciones de moda</title><content type='html'>Ayer, volviendo de las montañas, compartí el vagón con un grupo de adolescentes que se comportaron como tales, es de cir, tenían tomado el espacio. Eso, en este siglo en el que ya no me toca ser adolescente, significa sustituir el loro a todo trapo de los 80 por el móvil con mp3 y altavoz a todo trapo del siglo XXI. En los 90 el loro se consideraba hortera y el mp3 no existía todavía, así que no tengo muy claro cómo ocupábamos el espacio los adolescentes de los 90... tal vez a voz en grito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así que disfruté de una sesión de Grandes Éxitos de Discoteca 2008, Ploeşti-Bucureşti. Entre ellos, una canción que ya había oído por aquí (&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tu Café&lt;/span&gt;), y que, la verdad, como hit local, me impacta:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/baLaHiBPuR4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/baLaHiBPuR4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He investigado un poco. El grupo, &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.n-o-h-a.de/"&gt;N.O.H.A.&lt;/a&gt; (Noise of human art), es un grupo multicultural con base en Alemania, muchas influencias del "Balkan Disco sound" (habrá que investigar sobre esto, y sobre sus relaciones con el &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manele"&gt;manele&lt;/a&gt;... os debo un post sobre el manele, que se lo merece), y una nueva cantante de Gijón que, sospecho, es la culpable de todo. [Dicen de ella en su web: "Minerva Diaz Perez – the new singer is from Gijon, Spain. Her expressive vocals with a erotic undercurrent, create incomparable depth and atmosphere on the live performance"]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno, ya me informaréis si esta canción suena también por España... Lo único que a mí me queda claro es que "Tu café" ha entrado con fuerza en mi ranking personal de canciones absurdas pegadizas, junto con grandes éxitos del pachangueo como &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IogAP0zmmc"&gt;Tengo un tractor amarillo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfShb9u0m0g"&gt;Canario&lt;/a&gt;, la &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z7t-Ox3XvU"&gt;Macarena&lt;/a&gt; o el &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XubVpeq4E20"&gt;Aserejé&lt;/a&gt;. Aunque mi preferida seguirá siendo &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqxH-SLoMbU"&gt;Clone Fashion&lt;/a&gt;, también culpa de españoles en Berlín. Me pasé el verano de 2003 escuchando esta canción mientras trabajaba en la Oficina Comercial de Moscú... Y sobrevivimos yo y los empresarios :):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kqxH-SLoMbU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kqxH-SLoMbU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Post Data. &lt;/span&gt;No he encontrado en la Red una sola referencia a otra de mis canciones absurdas preferidas, de un grupo español cuyo nombre no recuerdo, y que, visto lo visto, debía ser más bien un grupúculo. Pero recuerdo un trozo que decía así, con un recitado en plan Hip Hop:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;"Perrito Piloto, perrito de peluche / la Muñeca Chochona no tiene quien le escuche / soy más &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;negativo que el culo de una pila / el ojo del Gran Hermano siempre te vigila".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como "El Fablistanón", hubo una época en la que me la sabía entera... ¿Qué se habrá sobreescrito en esa neurona?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;EL FABLISTANÓN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Borgotaba. Los viscolantes toves, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;rijando en la solea, taladraban... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Misébiles estaban los borgoves &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;y algo momios los verdos brachtchilbaban. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;¡Cuidado hijo con el Fablistanón! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;¡Con sus dientes y garras, muerde, apresa! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;¡Cuidado con el pájaro Sonsón &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;y rehuye al frumioso Magnapresa! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Blandiendo su montante vorpalino &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;al monstro largo tiempo presiguió... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Bajo el árbol Tamtam luego se vino &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;y un rato cavilando se quedó. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Y estando en su aviesmal cavilación, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;llegó el Fablistanón, ojo flagrante. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;tufando por el bosque fosfuscón &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;y se acercó veloz y burbujante. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;¡Un, dos! De parte a parte le atraviesa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;varias veces el vorpalino acero... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Y, muerto el monstro, izando la cabeza, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;regresó galofando muy ligero. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;¿De verdad al Fablistanón has muerto? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;¡Ven que te abrece, niño radioroso! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;¡Hurra, hurra, qué día ristolerto! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;risotó carcajante y jubiloso &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Borgotaba. Los viscolantes toves, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;rijando en la solea, taladraban... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Misébiles estaban los borgoves &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;y algo momios los verdos brachtchilbaban.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;("Alicia a través del espejo", Lewis Carroll, según traducción de Ramón Buckley)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este todavía sobrevive en mi memoria, podéis retarme cuando queráis. Otra gente se aprende un trozo del Quijote, o una canción de Los Chichos, pero no sé, será que tuve una infancia difícil, que dirían los libros de autoayuda :):):)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7663698228412573061?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7663698228412573061/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7663698228412573061&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7663698228412573061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7663698228412573061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/canciones-de-moda.html' title='Canciones de moda'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5270017087330718802</id><published>2008-07-11T20:12:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.535+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sociedad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Phoney brave man from Torino</title><content type='html'>This afternoon I saw a car with plates from Torino, Italy and decided to make photo, to prove that somebody is brave enough, or reckless enough, to have his or her own car in this crazy town:&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHejp5SQVhI/AAAAAAAAAKY/JVSPO_Ydcc0/s1600-h/20080711_0150_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHejp5SQVhI/AAAAAAAAAKY/JVSPO_Ydcc0/s200/20080711_0150_b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221822233106732562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then, I decided the photo woul be better from the front... Well, maybe we are not talking of a brave Italian from Torino here, but of an non-legal (non-illegal either?) Romanian from Bucharest:&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHelBZ2sIjI/AAAAAAAAAKo/1GUMRH1t3hY/s1600-h/PhoneyBraveItalianFromTorino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHelBZ2sIjI/AAAAAAAAAKo/1GUMRH1t3hY/s320/PhoneyBraveItalianFromTorino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221823736498102834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Or is this normal?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5270017087330718802?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5270017087330718802/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5270017087330718802&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5270017087330718802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5270017087330718802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/phoney-brave-italian-from-torino.html' title='Phoney brave man from Torino'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHejp5SQVhI/AAAAAAAAAKY/JVSPO_Ydcc0/s72-c/20080711_0150_b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-410408468251101431</id><published>2008-07-09T19:39:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.474+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russian baths'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baños rusos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='banya'/><title type='text'>Baños rusos: manual de instrucciones (versión femenina)</title><content type='html'>Una de las cosas que hice cuando estuve en Moscú fue ir a los baños, a la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;rusa, y que es algo más que sudar - refrescarse - sudar - refrescarse - sudar - refrescarse, es todo un ritual. Voy a intentar explicar un poco cómo funciona, y tal vez algunos podréis comentarme las diferencias de la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya rusa&lt;/span&gt; respecto a la sauna finesa y el &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hammam &lt;/span&gt;turco, no sólo en el tipo de calor, sino en el ritual y modo de uso... Bueno, e incluso respecto a la sección masculina de una &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;rusa, que tiene un ritual diferente, como muy pronto entenderéis con lo que os cuente de la sección femenina. Y bueno, cualquier puntualización de aquellas chicas más expertas que yo será bienvenida e incorporada a esta entrada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHUBdkq5KII/AAAAAAAAAJo/euSdS0xAorU/s1600-h/01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 136px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHUBdkq5KII/AAAAAAAAAJo/euSdS0xAorU/s200/01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221080950577375362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Lo primero es saber &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;qué llevar&lt;/span&gt;, que aunque sea ésta una actividad nudista, irónicamente se llevan bastante más cosas que cuando uno va a la piscina con bañador, gafas y gorro: 1) Una sábana vieja; 2) Una toalla; 3) Una toalla pequeña, gorro de fieltro o similar para la cabeza; 4) Unas chanclas; 5) Posos de café; 6) Miel; 7) Neceser con útiles de aseo; 8) Agua mineral. De todas maneras, se puede comprar bebida y comida en la propia &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya&lt;/span&gt;, y habitualmente también se alquilan toallas y sábanas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo segundo, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;adónde ir&lt;/span&gt;. En Moscú existen , que yo conozca, al menos 4 ó 5 banyas públicas no VIP, todas ellas con una sección masculina y una sección femenina separadas. Yo he ido a tres (metro Sportivnaya, metro Ulitsa 1905 y metro Mendeleevskaya), y la que más me ha gustado es la de Ulitsa 1905. De todas maneras (excepto justo en ese caso, por lo que me han dicho) las secciones masculinas suelen tener mejores instalaciones (piscina y &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parilka &lt;/span&gt;-la "sala de vapor"- más grandes), y por ejemplo en una página que he encontrado con un &lt;a href="http://www.banisauni.ru/"&gt;listado de baños (rusos, fineses y turcos) en Moscú y Píter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; la publicidad se centra también en el público masculino, porque los servicios que enumera y puntúa (restaurante, billar, DVD)  me da que son de la parte masculina de las &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banyas&lt;/span&gt;, yo mesa de billar no he visto en mi vida... A todo esto, muchas parnyas municipales tienen también sala de sauna finesa, pero es un añadido, así que no lo mencionaré en el rito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHURayU3VaI/AAAAAAAAAKI/9_eGyXnfL78/s1600-h/banya.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 171px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHURayU3VaI/AAAAAAAAAKI/9_eGyXnfL78/s200/banya.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221098494889514402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Muchos rusos no van nunca a la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya&lt;/span&gt;, o al menos no van nunca a las &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banyas &lt;/span&gt;públicas, sino que van a la &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;banya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; en la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;dacha&lt;/span&gt;, en la casa de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;l pueblo por así decirlo (desde mansión en el campo a chabola en el huerto, según poder adquisitivo e inversión realizada en el pedazo de terruño que muc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;hísima gen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;te tiene por aquí, al menos la familia). S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;e construye la parnya en una choza de madera, y el lago, o simplemente la nieve en el exterior en invierno, sustituye a la piscina de agua fría. En ese caso, o bien se prepara la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;(sesión de vapor en la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parilka&lt;/span&gt;) por turnos (los hombres y las mujeres por turnos, mientras los otros comen, beben, conversan...), o bien, según grado de pudor o confianza o fiesta loca, se comparte &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya&lt;/span&gt;. También se puede, claro está, compartir pudorosamente, con toallita por encima, pero la verdad es que a mí esa opción no me convencería, preferiría entrar sola.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHUVQOvo_gI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/wnFdoGMuJS8/s1600-h/veniksm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHUVQOvo_gI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/wnFdoGMuJS8/s200/veniksm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221102711585963522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Bueno, llegamos a la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;anya &lt;/span&gt;con nuestra bolsa, si es de nuestro gusto compramos un racimo de hojas de roble secas que suelen vender en la puerta y que se usa para masajes (aunque no sé si masaje sería la palabra...) dentro de la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parilka&lt;/span&gt;. En la recepción de la zona femenina (a partir de aquí ya no veremos un hombre) pagamos, reservamos masaje si vamos a querer alguno (se reserva a una hora, y entran en la banya a avisarte), y entramos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Se paga por horas, se suelen pasar unas 2 horas o así&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;. La banya la componen dos partes, básicamente: una, la sala de descanso, que incluye cabinas donde dejar las cosas y relajarse en la intimidad entre &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;y &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya&lt;/span&gt;, y una zona común con mesas, donde sirven té y otras bebidas refrescantes (a veces también comidas); otra, la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;propiamente dicha, con sus bancos corridos donde se dejan los barreños con agua fría (para poner en remojo la rama, para echársela por encima, para preparar potingues...), con sus duchas, su piscina de agua fría y, por supuesto, la puerta a la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parilka&lt;/span&gt;, la sala de vapor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHURPjHMpbI/AAAAAAAAAKA/RyoTGDW0PBA/s1600-h/2006-01-21_03-00_parilka.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHURPjHMpbI/AAAAAAAAAKA/RyoTGDW0PBA/s200/2006-01-21_03-00_parilka.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221098301827098034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;La &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;parilka &lt;/span&gt;es un habitáculo de madera con bancos en escalera que retiene el calor que surge de una estufa sobre la cual hay piedras al rojo vivo: el vapor se obtiene echando agua sobre las mismas. El calor húmedo es lo que diferencia la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;rusa de la sauna finesa. La preparación de la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parilka &lt;/span&gt;corre a cargo de una persona experta, que anuncia el turno de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;a la gente que está en los baños (suena un timbre en la zona de descanso, la gente apura su té y se apresura...). La gente entra y se sienta o tumba según  gustos, con una sábana o una toalla -mejor sábana, menos pegajoso- para protegerse de la madera caliente de los bancos y algo (una toalla, un sombrero de fieltro) protegiendo la cabeza. Una vez están dentro todas las personas que han decidido aprovechar el turno, se cierra la puerta herméticamente y ya no se podrá entrar hasta que termine la primera parte de la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya&lt;/span&gt;, para no estropearla. La encargada echa agua en las piedras, riega la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parilka &lt;/span&gt;con esencia de menta y se mueve entre los grupos agitando el aire con una rama (a lo que hay que responder con un gracias). Fuera de breves "gracias" (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;spasibo&lt;/span&gt;), "qué bien" (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;oi, kak khoroshó&lt;/span&gt;) y comentarios así, en la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parilka &lt;/span&gt;no se puede hablar, si hablas te echan la bronca e incluso te invitan a irte. De todas maneras, yo personalmente no tengo nunca ganas de hablar, la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;en conjunto, y especialmente la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya&lt;/span&gt;, me dejan en estado zen. Cuando la encargada considera que ya está suficientemente caliente, pregunta a las asistentes, y si le dicen que están de acuerdo, se marcha (no si antes desear una buena &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya&lt;/span&gt;, "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;s liogkim parom&lt;/span&gt;", literalmente "[os deseo] vapor suave"), y se cierra la puerta herméticamente detrás de ella para que nadie entre. Ahí cada una aguanta lo que puede o quiere, y se va marchando a darse el golpe de frío como cada una prefiera, a base de barreños de agua fría, en la ducha, en la bañera de agua helada, o en la piscina que a veces hay, si las instalaciones son buenas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando la procesión de mujeres saliendo está en marcha ya se puede entrar, a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;mediada, o volver otro ratito a la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parilka &lt;/span&gt;las que han salido  a remojarse y vuelta. Es el momento de los masajes con ramas, que consisten en darse (mejor dicho, que te den) golpes con las hojas secas (remojadas previamente) en el cuerpo, y la parilka se vuelve más ruidosa, hay conversaciones, otro ambiente, otra sensación... Lo de las ramas de hojas de roble es todo un arte, hay que saber hacerlo: vamos, que comprarse una rama y empezar a zurrarse con las amigas no es el tema... De todas maneras, se puede pagar extra a alguna de las encargadas de la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;para que lo haga, igual que otro tipo de masajes que se suelen ofrecer en las &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banyas&lt;/span&gt;. Cuando la parnya ya está demasiado templada, se abre la puerta del todo, se airea, se limpia, y se llama a un nuevo turno de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya&lt;/span&gt;. Si la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;es muy de barrio y vas mucho, a veces las mandonas abuelas rusas te piden(entiéndase "ordenan") que ayudes, como clienta habitual. A mí me pasó un invierno que iba muchas semanas :):)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normalmente es aconsejable hacer tres turnos de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;(si las coges seguidas, es más o menos hora y media), aumentando gradualmente el tiempo de aguante en el interior y el modo de la exposición (menos calor cuanto más abajo se esté, y más aguante tumbado que sentado, aunque sobre esto último hay opiniones diversas). Y no conviene aguantar por aguantar y hacer el ganso: la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;es muy saludable (si no tiene uno problemas de corazón, eso sí), pero también puede ser peligrosa. Cubrirse la cabeza no es ninguna tontería, beber mucho líquido (se desaconseja el alcohol) tampoco.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entre &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;y &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;las mujeres pasan el tiempo de la siguiente manera: haciendo tratamientos de belleza (depilándose, haciendo peeling en la piel -de ahí los posos de café-, hidratando la piel -de ahí la miel-, utilizando el agua en la que se pusieron en remojo las hojas de roble...), en la piscina o en la ducha dejando que los deditos se arruguen, haciéndose un masaje, o simplemente charlando en la sala de descanso, bebiendo un té, e incluso viendo la tele (aunque en mi estado zen es otra cosa que a mí no me apetece nada...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y nada, todo se acaba, llegó el momento de irse, una última ducha como quien sale de la piscina (jabón, champú, secador para el pelo), vestirse y salir de la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;levitando, con una sensación extraña en el cuerpo, muerta de hambre (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;banya &lt;/span&gt;+ cena + dormir como un bebé, el plan perfecto para una tarde-noche de domingo) y, si es invierno, con la aún más extraña sensación de que los 1o grados son sobre cero y no bajo cero, sin necesidad de abrigo, de gorro ni de nada. En otra dimensión...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BREVE NOTA SOBRE EL FUNCIONAMIENTO DE LA SECCIÓN MASCULINA DE LA &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;BANYA&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Me temo que sólo sé, por lo que me han contado, dos cosas:&lt;br /&gt;1) En plan machote, ahí nadie reconoce nunca que está ya suficientemente caliente la &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;y el encargado a veces la pone a tope, para sufrimiento de los pobres extranjeros que están menos acostumbrados y hubieran confesado...&lt;br /&gt;2) Entre &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya &lt;/span&gt;y &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;parnya&lt;/span&gt;, nada de tratamientos de belleza, y sí mucha comida y mucha bebida, incluida la alcohólica.&lt;br /&gt;Pero a buen seguro alguien podrá iluminarnos más al respecto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Iluminación 1&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" &gt;"La banya masculina, sí, está exenta de mariconadas tipo perfume, cremas y preparaciones especiales previas. Es todo más caótico, espontáneo y cafre".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BREVE NOTA SOBRE EL FUNCIONAMIENTO DE LA BANYA EN LA DACHA:&lt;br /&gt;Menos profesional, más divertida... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-410408468251101431?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/410408468251101431/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=410408468251101431&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/410408468251101431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/410408468251101431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/una-de-las-cosas-que-hice-cuando-estuve.html' title='Baños rusos: manual de instrucciones (versión femenina)'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHUBdkq5KII/AAAAAAAAAJo/euSdS0xAorU/s72-c/01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7186577114096631761</id><published>2008-07-08T16:53:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.643+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Summer concerts</title><content type='html'>I think I will never get used to bump into Julio Iglesias posters abroad...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHN_weIYCxI/AAAAAAAAAJg/JMDP-YQWeGo/s1600-h/07072008131.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHN_weIYCxI/AAAAAAAAAJg/JMDP-YQWeGo/s320/07072008131.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220656863751179026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Maybe a concert with Costel Busuioc in Iaşi (the Romanian immigrant that won Spanish show Hijos de Babel, see &lt;a href="http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/03/pavarotti-din-banat.html"&gt;Pavarotti din Banat&lt;/a&gt;) is not the most accurate definition of success. Still, having public over there is, without any doubt, a clear proof of widespread fame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. I've been told that a Romanian woman working at the Embassy is the president of the local fan group, and Julio Iglesias makes at least three concerts in Romania every year.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7186577114096631761?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7186577114096631761/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7186577114096631761&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7186577114096631761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7186577114096631761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/summer-concerts.html' title='Summer concerts'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SHN_weIYCxI/AAAAAAAAAJg/JMDP-YQWeGo/s72-c/07072008131.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-7779173409093289869</id><published>2008-07-01T22:08:00.016+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T21:22:11.958+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sociedad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moscow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rusia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Russia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Moscú'/><title type='text'>Farther East</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqUFV6fcSI/AAAAAAAAAIg/LQQTLPKqGE8/s1600-h/Sheremetevo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqUFV6fcSI/AAAAAAAAAIg/LQQTLPKqGE8/s200/Sheremetevo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218145937764872482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;One week nicely spent in Moscow visiting my friends... What's changed since the last time I was there, about 2 years ago? Not much, at first sight. Well, prices are much higher if you earn Rubles or Dollars (the 1.000 rubles note, that &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqbQJMh0II/AAAAAAAAAJI/6d_zHNad0iY/s1600-h/SheremetevoTrain.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqbQJMh0II/AAAAAAAAAJI/6d_zHNad0iY/s200/SheremetevoTrain.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218153819910819970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I rarely had in my wallet 2 years ago, is now easily spent in a meal and a pair of drinks), although I didn't notice the rise myself, as the Euro exchange rate has rised accordingly. And there's much more infrastructures and construction investments; they're, at last, renewing Sheremetevo Airport, and it has now linked by train with Moscow city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the streets, the cafés, the people's faces and expressions remain quite the same. That's not bad, I reckon; of course there are many things that should get better, but it must be nice to have some rest after all these years of rapid, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqUVxXsNKI/AAAAAAAAAIo/KrotJ0xYa7E/s1600-h/tekhPereryb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqUVxXsNKI/AAAAAAAAAIo/KrotJ0xYa7E/s200/tekhPereryb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218146220013008034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;sharp changes in a spinning country. A roundabout that has made so many people dizzy, and even dropped off the weakest, although it's equally true that, if you held on and tight, it pushed you forward, never to look back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unchanged remains the "technical pause", that euphemism for "coffee break" I like so much when I don't have to suffer it. A holidays curiosity, a daily life pain in the neck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqVRhTVGfI/AAAAAAAAAIw/PCx0h9LJljU/s1600-h/BodaHummer.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqVRhTVGfI/AAAAAAAAAIw/PCx0h9LJljU/s200/BodaHummer.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218147246491900402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Unchanged remains the bad taste of the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;novye russkie&lt;/span&gt; ("new Russians", that is, new rich), that now use Hummers even for weddings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unchanged, it seems, remains the habit of homeless and empoverished old men and women of collecting all the empty botyles and cans... &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqZESqFgDI/AAAAAAAAAJA/dbz1USeVPdg/s1600-h/14062008124.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqZESqFgDI/AAAAAAAAAJA/dbz1USeVPdg/s200/14062008124.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218151417269026866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now there's a brand new machines at the exit of the metro stations and in many other spots by the street where you can obtain money in exchange of certain bottles and cans (I tried one out of curiosity and my bottle wasn't recognized by the smart mashine). I left Moscow without having seen one single person to use these machines... I keep wondering whose idea, whose investment, is this "individual neocapitalist" way of implementing some recycling system around the city... I wouldn't mind if it fails, I wouldn't mind to see a municipal collecting and recycling system in Moscow (will my grandchildren see that?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unchanged, but closed forever, is the door of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Muzey Kino&lt;/span&gt;, the film house situated in the back of a very expensive building in the centre of Moscow (Barikadnaya), and that has been closed after some years of public but low supported resistance. Apparently, it has been moved to some neighbourhood in the far end of one of the Moscow metro lines. A feeble hope, as feeble as the blue ink, almost invisible from the outside, used to scribble the new address on the "the film house doesn't work any more" note hanging on the Muzey Kino door.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqXRID6SlI/AAAAAAAAAI4/f6OHLdlfgSQ/s1600-h/MuzeyKino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqXRID6SlI/AAAAAAAAAI4/f6OHLdlfgSQ/s320/MuzeyKino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218149438739597906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So bye bye, Moscow, I'll be back.&lt;br /&gt;Nice to meet you, Voronezh' &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;chiornaya zemlya&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And welcome me back, Bucharest!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-7779173409093289869?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/7779173409093289869/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=7779173409093289869&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7779173409093289869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/7779173409093289869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/07/farther-east.html' title='Farther East'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SGqUFV6fcSI/AAAAAAAAAIg/LQQTLPKqGE8/s72-c/Sheremetevo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2516330410783517485</id><published>2008-06-08T09:56:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.366+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sociedad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anécdotas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='local habits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rumano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anecdotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='usos locales'/><title type='text'>Introducción al rumano, Parte 1</title><content type='html'>Mi estrategia para hacerme con el idioma, la ciudad y la idiosincrasia rumana se resume, básicamente, en la famosa frase "donde fueres haz lo que vieres", aunque algo tamizada por ele sentido común (espero no llegar a conducir nunca como alguna gente conduce por aquí...).&lt;br /&gt;Y, en lo que se refiere al idioma, va funcionando, aunque también tiene sus problemillas, y te puedes encontrar despidiéndote de un cajero en el banco con un "a sus pies, muy agradecidos" (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sărut mână, mulţumim!&lt;/span&gt;, "le beso la mano, se lo agradecemos"), imitando el saludo habitual hacia las mujeres que se suele utilizar aquí, y despistada respecto al hecho de "muchas gracias" se conjuga por aquí. Cuando salí por la puerta aquel día, no entendía porqué el hombre se había quedado parado y me miraba raro, no me había parecido maleducado... Al día siguiente me lo explicó una amiga rumana entre risas, diciéndome que a su novio, extranjero también, cuando llegó a Bucarest le pasó lo mismo, y que los hombres reaccionaban aún más raro, como me podía imaginar, cuando era un hombre el que les besaba la mano... Por cierto, que hay aquí mucha gente de la vieja escuela que cuando te presentas te besa la mano... Si ya hay muchas chicas en España a las que no nos gusta la costumbre de los dos besos en el contexto laboral (ir dando dos besos y no la mano a desconocidos en traje), imaginaos que esos desconocidos te anden besando la mano...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me gusta (creo que en general le gusta a todos los extranjeros por aquí) la manera de decir "muchas gracias", &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;merci frumos&lt;/span&gt;, o &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mulţumesc frumos&lt;/span&gt;, que significa literalmente "bonitas gracias". &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Frumuseţea&lt;/span&gt;, "belleza", es una palabra que me hace mucha gracia, como si me hiciera cosquillas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También me hace gracia el nombre de un tipo de tienda, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;depozit de calculatoare&lt;/span&gt;, que es como se llaman las tiendas de informática... Al principio no lo entendía, la verdad, por qué había tantos sitios para almacenar ordenadores en medio de la ciudad...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es entretenido, estar en un país de lengua románica pero loca, con todos sus falsos amigos y algún que otro enemigo... Por cierto, me he vuelto una señorita en rumano, yo que en español digo "joder" muy a menudo, y que aprendí un italiano rodeada, al parecer, por lo que me han dicho, de malas influencias, con una frecuencia en el uso de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cazzo&lt;/span&gt; y similares superior a la media (desde que lo sé me intento controlar). Porque en rumano no tengo ninguna palabrota que enseñaros, todavía...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2516330410783517485?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2516330410783517485/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2516330410783517485&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2516330410783517485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2516330410783517485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/06/introduccin-al-rumano-parte-1.html' title='Introducción al rumano, Parte 1'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2819419880794992831</id><published>2008-06-05T10:35:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.394+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='España'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEeljm9eNBI/AAAAAAAAAH8/1tKBvgskKMI/s1600-h/20080605elpepivin_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEeljm9eNBI/AAAAAAAAAH8/1tKBvgskKMI/s400/20080605elpepivin_4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208313525249651730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Y si tienes una moneda de 2 euros, que pesa más, ¿estarás más en crisis que si sólo tienes una de 50 céntimos?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2819419880794992831?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2819419880794992831/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2819419880794992831&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2819419880794992831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2819419880794992831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/06/y-si-tienes-una-moneda-de-2-euros-que.html' title=''/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEeljm9eNBI/AAAAAAAAAH8/1tKBvgskKMI/s72-c/20080605elpepivin_4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-285153754357195024</id><published>2008-06-03T22:07:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.407+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>PostCommunist, NeoEuropean elections: some thoughts on Romanian local elections</title><content type='html'>I've been living in Romania since last February, trying, amongst other things, to understand national political system, ideology, civic culture... It's quite complicated (and risky) to draw opinions in any country social life, being new, being an outsider. Anyhow...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Sunday (1st June) were local elections (first round, second round when needed, as happened in Bucharest, will be held on 15th June); national elections will be held in Autumn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That means that I have suffered a colourful elections in acity split in 6 municipalities, everyone with its mayor, plus a general mayor to be elected. Imagine that one side of the Thames is ruled by one chap, and the other side by other... That's Bucharest. Now, imagine you have to decide on the future of the bus that links both riversides... That's Bucharest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway... Colourful: 7-8 parties with enough money to campaign around, with coulourful posters (red, three types of red, a brigt yellow, light blue...). Political programmes? I couldn't find real proposals on their webpages: all candidates belonged to the "I'm not going to steal like them, I'm green, I'm near you" party. A colourful political circus. By the wayk, if you want to meet the clown, I recommend you a wiki-reading: &lt;a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_Becali"&gt;Gigi Becali&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile the actor in the construction playfield where I'm currently involved professionally where quiet but moving: either getting their projects signed before change, or waiting for the goddammit elections to see some movement in all the projects that had ben paralized since February-March. That's usual local and national politics, by the way, no typical Romanian here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here we are: 1st of June ended, new mayors here, new mandates for old ones there, second round stand byes now and then... In the news, a lot of data reading, some scandal (punctual poll problems) that seemed bigger on TV as they repeated it all over and over again. Low rate of political analysis, appart from some Traian Basescu (President) vs. Calin Popescu (Prime Minister) never ending discussion. So, without any local commentator I trust yet (blame my ignorance), I'm still left on my own in this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, let's back to the data, at least one clear data. &lt;b&gt;National electoral turnout: 46,59%. Bucharest electoral turnout: less than 35%.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not boring you with theories on first-rate elections and second-rate elections... I will just tell you that I was the most surprised on such a low participation, and the lack of reaction on such a low participation, that must be thus considered as normal here. Either Romanians doesn't think on local elections as first-rate, important ones, or they doesn't feel any implication in the system... or both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only know that such a result would be a great scandal in Spain, and I hope that not only in Spain, but in some other countries... Here it isn't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PostCommunist Romania is different from other PostCommunist countries (i.e. Russia) where people might vote more, but anyway in a large extent vote for the government option, without considering there's a choice.... However, Romanian political culture, quite the opposite, doesn't seem much moe possitive to me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I then I began thinking on those that lost illusion on "regular" democracy and ask for abstention, saying that if the day nobody goes voting the change will come, political class will change, so on.&lt;br /&gt;I'm not myself in a "God bless liberal democracy" mood lately, quite deceived by so many things, but I was thinking these days... If someday in Spain only 30% of electors go to vote, shall it be the scandal we hope, or will it be the end of an growing apathy process, life going on and no change at all? Because I have just read that &lt;b&gt;this is the worst participation rate since 1989 in Romania&lt;/b&gt;, and life does go on, too much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunno, yet today my most pessimistic views prevail. I wish you all better thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEWk_U1QBgI/AAAAAAAAAH0/r9GZqOyvqwo/s1600-h/ElectoralMap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEWk_U1QBgI/AAAAAAAAAH0/r9GZqOyvqwo/s400/ElectoralMap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207749951954617858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-285153754357195024?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/285153754357195024/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=285153754357195024&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/285153754357195024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/285153754357195024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/06/postcommunist-neoeuropean-elections.html' title='PostCommunist, NeoEuropean elections: some thoughts on Romanian local elections'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEWk_U1QBgI/AAAAAAAAAH0/r9GZqOyvqwo/s72-c/ElectoralMap.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-4119619150395200885</id><published>2008-06-01T18:50:00.022+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.482+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tourism'/><title type='text'>A tourist break</title><content type='html'>I should write about so many things: about lively street life in Bucharest (parks, music, bikes and beer), about sad imprints that blur the photo (stray dogs -&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;oraşul e al nostru&lt;/span&gt;-, wandering glue-addict kids, empoverished pensioneers, high profile homeless), about politics (the politically void electoral circus, the Romanian perception on Italian government recent derive -&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;forza&lt;/span&gt;, V.-), about the construction fever, the Romania-European Union deluding romance, about either funny or significative everyday challenges (exhausting bill paying, language misunderstandings...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should write about so many meaningful things. However, summer is coming, and some of you asked me many weeks ago to describe a little bit the Romanian "touristic circuit". But I'm afraid I have traveled around just a little bit so far, only to Southern Transylvania and the North of Bulgaria. So I will just upload some photos and mention some names.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEMKnE1QBeI/AAAAAAAAAHk/QLCXwJqanhk/s1600-h/regional_map.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEMKnE1QBeI/AAAAAAAAAHk/QLCXwJqanhk/s320/regional_map.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207017260598691298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SELgpU1QBaI/AAAAAAAAAHE/hC3lnLWq9VY/s1600-h/MonastirSinaia4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SELgpU1QBaI/AAAAAAAAAHE/hC3lnLWq9VY/s200/MonastirSinaia4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206971119765030306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SELg401QBbI/AAAAAAAAAHM/D4PO_yqtPR0/s1600-h/Brasov4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SELg401QBbI/AAAAAAAAAHM/D4PO_yqtPR0/s200/Brasov4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206971386053002674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Transylvania. &lt;/span&gt;An up-and-down itinerary through valleys and montains very different from Pyrenees but as impressive or even more, with many historical towns and castles to stop by. Sinaia-Brasov-Sighisoara-Sibiu summarize the route; being Southern Transylvania quite near from Bucharest, it can be done (a part of it) in a week-end, but there's secondary roads and valleys for a week, also. A lot of Dracula merchandising around Bran, the most deceiving spot in the route, from my point of view. Very tasty cheese is sold by the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SELoRk1QBcI/AAAAAAAAAHU/Gci77UvWm_o/s1600-h/eur_erco_putna_monas_intro_1_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 149px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SELoRk1QBcI/AAAAAAAAAHU/Gci77UvWm_o/s200/eur_erco_putna_monas_intro_1_0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206979507836159426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Suceava and Moldava.&lt;/span&gt; The "Monastyr route", I've been told it to be one of the most beautiful spots in Romania. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Maramures &lt;/span&gt;is the distant region everyone want to visit around here these days.&lt;br /&gt;Towns like &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cluj &lt;/span&gt;or &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Iasi &lt;/span&gt;are both interesting to be seen and the operation center for car trips to Moldova-Suceava-Northern Transylvania. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SELodU1QBdI/AAAAAAAAAHc/u3kxHq6GenE/s1600-h/Danube_Delta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 142px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SELodU1QBdI/AAAAAAAAAHc/u3kxHq6GenE/s200/Danube_Delta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206979709699622354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;From Tulcea to the East, the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Danube delta&lt;/span&gt; is the first option for nature lovers (spetially bird lovers), although in any case there's trekking routes all over the country.&lt;br /&gt;Well, maybe this is not a very useful post for people planning a trip, but sometimes traveling is like picking books or CDs, an appealing name and a nice cover fuel imagination... Anyway, this is not at all a planning-in-advance country... Just buy a round ticket and gather some general ideas, and get on the road!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-4119619150395200885?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/4119619150395200885/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=4119619150395200885&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4119619150395200885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4119619150395200885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/06/touristic-break.html' title='A tourist break'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEMKnE1QBeI/AAAAAAAAAHk/QLCXwJqanhk/s72-c/regional_map.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-4318416770421984566</id><published>2008-05-15T21:12:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.494+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Sopa de letras multicolor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SCyNWkx07FI/AAAAAAAAAGk/17dyP6a3TB4/s1600-h/DSCN1046.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SCyNWkx07FI/AAAAAAAAAGk/17dyP6a3TB4/s200/DSCN1046.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200687088675384402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hay elecciones municipales en junio, y con tanta alcaldía, tantas siglas y tantos colores, la cosa me tiene mareada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mareo politológico. &lt;/span&gt;¿Tanta alcaldía? Bueno, Bucarest en realidad se compone de seis ayuntamientos (uno por Sector), más uno general. Vamos, imaginaos una Comunidad Autónoma del tamaño de una ciudad, es decir, casa tras casa tras casa, y dividida en seis provincias. Pues más o menos eso, descripción de andar por casa. Yo vivo en sector 1, trabajo en sector 5 y voy a clases de rumano al sector 2... Todo ello en un perímetro de menos de media hora andando desde mi casa. Me intriga, intento aprender, cómo se puede desarrollar de manera coordinada una ciudad cuando un paso de cebra depende de un tipo, y el siguiente de otro... Pero bueno, hay dos explicaciones: primero, que la Primaría General manda mucho más; segundo, que Bucarest NO es una ciudad con un desarrollo coordinado ni mucho menos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mareo alfabético.&lt;/span&gt; Una quincena de candidatos, una quincena de partidos... Social, Liberal, Popular, Campesino, Demócrata, Nacional, Cristiano... Elige tres palabras, pon un guión, tienes un partido. Vamos, que necesito un master para orientarme aquí, menos mal que...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;(Mareo audiovisual)&lt;/span&gt;... existen los colores. Estas son las elecciones arcoiris. Como las líneas del metro de Madrid, a mí no me preguntéis nombres, sé que está el partido &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;naranja butano &lt;/span&gt;(el del presi, una rosa en el logo), el partido &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;rojo pasión &lt;/span&gt;(el ex-rojo, tres rosas en el logo), el &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;amarillo limón&lt;/span&gt; (tengo un boli), el &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51); font-weight: bold;"&gt;verde lima&lt;/span&gt; (que no es el Partido Verde), el &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;azul cielo&lt;/span&gt;. A ver, vivo al lado de Sala Palatului, que es un poco como el Palacio de los Deportes, así que ya me han tocado tres mítines de diferentes colores, con sus banderitas al viento, sus jóvenes repartiendo bolis, sobres, camisetas y su stand con alguna persona arengando al personal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SCyWpEx07GI/AAAAAAAAAGs/zSSh84ufxLk/s1600-h/img014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SCyWpEx07GI/AAAAAAAAAGs/zSSh84ufxLk/s200/img014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200697302107614306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mareo gráfico. &lt;/span&gt;Se necesitan urgentemente en este país trabajadores para el sector de la construcción y asesores de imagen... La primera propaganda que me endosaron fue la del candidato de mi sector (uno) del Partido Social Demócrata, y entre el fondo de bandera roja ondeando, la cara de niño bueno, delegado de la clase, esos ojos de corderito degollado "por favor votame"... Hoy vi su video electoral, y ¿sabéis a qué discurso corresponde esta imagen: "El Sector 1 vota. Juventud. Innovación. Voluntad. Profesionalismo. Es tiempo de cambios... etc."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4_5GOvsOqLU&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4_5GOvsOqLU&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero bueno, repeinados todos... Otro video, este del Partido Campesino: "Bucarest, una ciudad que mata¨, empieza el video. ¿será verdad, como dice el video, que la esperanza de vida en Bucarest es menor que en el resto de Rumania?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GJrduvNnjHY&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GJrduvNnjHY&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El color de la toga de Ciencias Políticas es del mismo color butano... Este mitin me recuerda mi orla de fin de carrera.... La salida de este mitin me pilló en la calle... qué agobio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jKsR_-p3Luc&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jKsR_-p3Luc&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ANEXO PARA FREAKIES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://infoalegeri.ro/"&gt;http://infoalegeri.ro/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candidatos a la Primaria General&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SCyNWkx07FI/AAAAAAAAAGk/17dyP6a3TB4/s1600-h/DSCN1046.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andrei Marian - PRR&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;BlagaVasile - PD-L&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diaconescu Cristian - PSD&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dumitrescu Dan - PER&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frumosu Dragos - UPSS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fuciu Daniel - PNG-CD&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gheorghe Dinu - PPPS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gusa Cozmin - PIN&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ion Ioana - PRE&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ionicescu Gheorghe - PVR&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ludovic Orban - PNL&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Meir Nati - PFC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mihai Mihaela - PNDC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mironov Alexandru - PSR&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oprescu Sorin Mircea&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pavelescu Aurelian - PNTCD&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stanciu Lucia - PAS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stefanescu Codrin - PC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Varbaciu Nicolae - PSR&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Verdinas Verginia  - PRM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vilau Ioan Adrian - UPSC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vladu Alexandru - PP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Candidatos para el Sector 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bojanopol Mariana - UPSS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bustea Elena - PNTCD&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Chiliman Andrei Ioan - PNL&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Constantin C. Oana - PSR&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Damian Spiridon - PVR&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Manea Vasile - PER&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mitroi V. Florea - PPPS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Murgeanu Razvan - PD-L&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oprea Marian - PNG-CD&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Petrescu Anca - PRM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Plesa Alexandru - PRR&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rotaru Oana Stefania - PIN&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Natalia - PAS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tanasescu Paul - PC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tudorache Dan - PSD&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Etc... Etc... Etc...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-4318416770421984566?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/4318416770421984566/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=4318416770421984566&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4318416770421984566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/4318416770421984566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/05/sopa-de-letras-multicolor.html' title='Sopa de letras multicolor'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SCyNWkx07FI/AAAAAAAAAGk/17dyP6a3TB4/s72-c/DSCN1046.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-8625379770494740014</id><published>2008-05-15T15:05:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.753+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sociedad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coffee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Café'/><title type='text'>Coffee spoiler</title><content type='html'>Hi! It's been so long since my last post... I'm afraid I'm a third lazy, a third busy and a third practical-problems-fighting, that equals I'm a crappy blogger...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway... As it's lunchtime (Spanish lunchtime, 15 h.), I just have another "food" anecdote... This time related to one of my addictions, that is, coffee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Romania is supposed to have coffee tradition, in contrast with tea tradition from Slavic countries (you know, the Latin island in a Slavic world). The traditional coffee is the Turkish one, but noone ever prepares it, and no cafeteria or restaurant offers it. Too long to prepare, no time to loose (capitalist frenzy? or practical approach?)... So they changed to long, American coffee. You know, the coffee we Spanish and also Italians consider bad... That´s why it´s difficult for me to consider Romania a "coffee country", after all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, after the fake sociological introduction, let´s go to the anecdote. This weekend I invited a friend to have lunch, I prepared coffee and she found it soooo strong... So this morning, when they came to install air conditioning at my house (now I'll be safe in Bucharest July canicule), I offered coffee (I always do, coffee, water, whateverm in Spain people fixing thing at your place would accept, here they say no and look surprised for the offer, but I can´t help keep offering, I feel unpolite if I prepare a coffee for myself and don´t offer around...). Well, this time they said yes. But then I went to the kitchen, tasted my coffee cup and noticed it was so nicely strong... So I decided to commit a crime: I poured one tenth of a cup and then filld the rest with water... they seemed to like it like that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lost my coffee principles today....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;Bueno, hace un montón que no escribo,  me temo que ando medo vaga, medio ocupada, medio preocupada, medio liada...  Ya sabéis que escribo cuentos de 2 líneas cada 4 años, así que mi vaguería en todo lo escrito no os sorprenderá.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;En fin, que reaparezco con otras anécdota alimenticia, bueno, no demasiado alimenticia, más bien adictiva: una historia de café.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;Rumania es un país cafetero, en teoría, una isla en un entorno amante del té, como es la Europa eslava. El café tradicional es del tipo turco, con los posos dentro del vaso. Ya nadie lo prepara, nadie lo sirve... demasiado trabajo. Y se han pasado al café largo, americano; por eso me cuesta considerar a los rumanos como verdaderos cafeteros, porque ya sabéis, para españoles, italianos (no sé si para colombianos y toda la pesca), el café bueno es el café fuerte, expreso, y un café americano es algo que sólo se bebe porque no hay más remedio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;Así que en Rumania se toma café americano. Fin de la afirmación falsamente sociológica. Inicio de la anéctoda. El otro día invité a una amiga a comer, y cuando llegó el momento del café, le costó horrores beberlo, demasiado fuerte. Hoy vinieron a ponerme el aire acondicionado, y les ofrecí café; siempre lo hago cuando vienen a arreglarme algo, en general aquí me miran raro, en España el 50% de las veces aceptan. Aquí no debe ser costumbre, pero la verdad es que me siento muy maleducada si me preparo un café y no ofrezco, así que lo sigo haciendo. Pero hoy aceptaron, y de repente me encontré con un problema: mi café de cafetera italiana era muy fuerte, no les iba a gustar... así que cometí un pecado capital, puse en una taza un poquito de café y rellené el resto con agua. !Parece que les gustó¡&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"&gt;"Tengo pocos principios, y los gasto en las tonterías que me da la gana" (Irene dixit, hace siglos, y sus amigos se lo recuerdan cuando quieren callar alguna enrevesada teoría...). En fin, parece ser que en lo relacionado con el café hoy he perdido un buen puñado de principios...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-8625379770494740014?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/8625379770494740014/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=8625379770494740014&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8625379770494740014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8625379770494740014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/05/coffee-spoiler.html' title='Coffee spoiler'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-2640524123847516056</id><published>2008-04-17T19:33:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.381+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fast Food'/><title type='text'>Fast Food Wisdom</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fast Food = cooked food that you buy in some kiosk to be eaten on your way... (My own Irene's definition).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) In St. Petersburg, in Koroblestroyteley Street, they have the best kebabs (Shaorma) in the world... Maybe because those where the first ones I tried, when I was 19 (b.G.: before Globalization), and were eaten with appetite and in good company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) In the Netherlands you can insert a coin in a machine and get a Coke, a coin in another one and get a chocolate bar, and then a last coin in a third machine and get a hot hamburguer... Not very tasty, by the way, with some Dutch "touch" in the sauce that didn't convince me at all. I would advice to get three chocolate bars instead and wait to reach some place and get a proper meal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) In Britain Fish&amp;amp;Chips' fish is too greasy and quite disgusting... Chips fried in that same oil, I don't know why, taste very good, though, specially after pub crawling (half pub crawling in my case)! And, by the way, kebabs are much spicier than in other places in Europe I've been in... The Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi influence, I suppose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) In Italy you can get a piece of pizza in every corner, Pizza al Taglio, and it costs differently depending on its weight. On kebab local specificities, I'm afraid, I don't know... But food at an Etiopian cafe is worth trying! (Although it's not fast food in that case...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) In Romania fried chips are served INSIDE the kebab, all together with the meat, vegetables and sauce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) I would need some outer look at Spanish Fast Food context to detect local specificities... Help on that :) But yeah, I do have one (a Madrid one, in fact): we get huge sandwiches filled with fried squids!! ("Bocata de Calamares")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PostScriptum: Kebab is my favorite kind of fast food, just in case this fact passed unnoticed for any of you...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-2640524123847516056?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/2640524123847516056/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=2640524123847516056&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2640524123847516056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/2640524123847516056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/04/fast-food-wisdom.html' title='Fast Food Wisdom'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-6450833189211446698</id><published>2008-04-14T20:13:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.590+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anécdotas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anecdotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cinema'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Cinema Paradiso</title><content type='html'>Today I closed my laptop at 18.30, decided that my working day was over and headed to the cinema, to a "Cinemateca" near my house, Cinema Union, a small cinema where the films are shown only if there's at least 6 people, where one day they show 1922's Nosferatu, and the next 2007's Juno. Sometimes it's a DVD screening, which is deceiving, but I like this place anyway because it's just around the corner, and because the athmosfere is quite  easy-going, kind of nice family business treatment for us clients. And besides, money-is-money, films cost 10 lei (2,5 euro) and I've been told that Fridays are free (I have to check that. But it might be, because the other day, a Friday, I thought I skipped into the other Cinemateca -felt a little guilty- but maybe it was free -it was crowded, so it sounds reasonable-).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SAOlhOAajpI/AAAAAAAAAGM/_P0TMl7-Jwg/s1600-h/Clayton.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SAOlhOAajpI/AAAAAAAAAGM/_P0TMl7-Jwg/s200/Clayton.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189173185775046290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Anyway, let's focus on my story: I was going to watch, this time, Michael Clayton, at 7 pm. Nothing rare, nothing surprising.  A mainstream film that I didn't get to watch in Madrid, and most of you, I'm sure, have downloaded from the Internet. They had been showing it a couple of months around here in distant Malls, so I didn't feel like going by myself. Film distribution is like that, here, most of films are firstly released in modern cinemas at the Malls (with its high prices, 5-6 euros -think on Romanian medium income, not in mine or yours- and far too talkative audience), then disappear a couple of weeks and come up again, if you're lucky (I''m still waiting for some, don't lose hope), this time in some shabby-looking 2-euro movie theatre in the city centre... The city centre, where I live, and where I'd like to go to the cinema anyway, no matter where I'd live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey me! Behave! Don't loose your focus... So I arrived Cinema Union. It was a rainy Monday: even students stay at home on Mondays. That's why I wasn't really surprised when the man at the door told me that there was no film at 19 pm, I just thought, "damn it, there's not even 6 people today...". But no, he explained further: the film couldn't be shown because it hadn't arrived on time from Cluj (a Transilvanian town) ! He told me to call next dayto check if the film will be on (as I told you, it seems a family business, sometimes).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SAOnqOAajqI/AAAAAAAAAGU/mQ5sj3oL0OU/s1600-h/Paradiso.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SAOnqOAajqI/AAAAAAAAAGU/mQ5sj3oL0OU/s200/Paradiso.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189175539417124514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;So here I am, coming back home in a 21st-century European capital, full of lights, cars and shops, and somehow feeling inside the 1950s' &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/"&gt;Cinema Paradiso&lt;/a&gt;, that film by Giuseppe Tornatore where a man had to sprint its bike through Sicilian roads to deliver in time a rudely censored love movie, or some Western, to an expectant population...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I must come to see Michael Clayton this week. I must. Because I'm really curious, I want to check one thing: will it be a DVD copy? Finding out is worth 2 euros! It would be completely absurd but I sort of have a hunch... Isn't Romania &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco"&gt;Ionesco&lt;/a&gt;'s home country for a reason?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SAOoh-AajrI/AAAAAAAAAGc/rZ_CHyYW_xM/s1600-h/Ionesco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SAOoh-AajrI/AAAAAAAAAGc/rZ_CHyYW_xM/s200/Ionesco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189176497194831538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-6450833189211446698?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/6450833189211446698/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=6450833189211446698&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6450833189211446698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6450833189211446698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/04/cinema-paradiso.html' title='Cinema Paradiso'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SAOlhOAajpI/AAAAAAAAAGM/_P0TMl7-Jwg/s72-c/Clayton.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-8287878031656926834</id><published>2008-03-30T18:04:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.738+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sociedad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coches'/><title type='text'>Hummer-travelling</title><content type='html'>Cuando estaba en Moscú pensaba que no podía haber más Hummer en ninguna otra ciudad del mundo; otras personas me han dicho lo mismo de México DF, por ejemplo. No puedo comparar, no he estado. También lo dicen de Bucarest, aunque aquí yo no he visto tantos, me da que hay menos que en Moscú...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para quien no lo sepa, el Hummer es un jeep basado en un modelo militar americano, con el guardabarros más alto del universo y al que, ciertamente, parece faltarle la metralleta en el techo. Bueno, pues no sé si en Bucarest hay muchos o pocos, pero estaba mirando páginas web para alquilar un coche para una excursión de fin de semana y ¡aquí puedes alquilar uno! Por 290 euros por día puedes conducir un vehículo merecedor de salir en Terminator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me han dicho que las carreteras aquí son terribles, todavía no lo he comprobado por mí misma, pero creo que de todas formas alquilaré algún coche más humano. Este Hummer, además, no es rojo, y ya se sabe, para mí los coches son o bien rojos o bien de colores. Como los árboles, dos clases: pinos, y todos los demás. No es que me sienta orgullosa, pero nunca he conseguido prestar la suficiente atención ni a la mecánica ni a la botánica...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-_Kk9uuXpI/AAAAAAAAAGE/uuTFmUGWd-E/s1600-h/Imagen+2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-_Kk9uuXpI/AAAAAAAAAGE/uuTFmUGWd-E/s400/Imagen+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183584432521371282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;When I was in Moscow, I thought I couldn´t possibly see as many Hummers as I saw there by the streets (for those who don't know, it's a tough-looking civilian version of an US military jeep). I was told the same thing on Mexico DF the other day, and some people I know here comment they have seen quite many in Bucharest (although there's less than there were in Moscow, I think).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Anyway, I was looking for a car to rent for a weekend, and I found out you can rent a Hummer here!!! 290 euros per day and you can drive a Terminator vehicle.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;I've been told that roads are quite a mess around here, but I think I'll stick to a small affordable car anyway. Which brand? Don´t know, cars for me are of two types, red ones and the rest. Like trees: pines or non-pines. It's not that I feel proud of my ignorance, I'm just unable to pay attention to either motors or botany....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-8287878031656926834?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/8287878031656926834/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=8287878031656926834&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8287878031656926834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/8287878031656926834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/03/hummer-travelling.html' title='Hummer-travelling'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-_Kk9uuXpI/AAAAAAAAAGE/uuTFmUGWd-E/s72-c/Imagen+2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-5713748602954045859</id><published>2008-03-28T19:31:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.549+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sociedad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anécdotas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romanian Language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rumano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anecdotes'/><title type='text'>Frases memorables / Unforgettable sentences</title><content type='html'>Voy a clases de rumano, y tenemos una profesora maja que habla mucho, cuenta anécdotas (muchas sobre comida), nos cuenta las cosas que le han sorprendido en el pasado de sus alumnos, que. ccomo lleva al menos 20 años dando clase, a veces son de lo más curiosas. Pero los que me dejan pensando de verdad son algunos comentarios que hace de pasada, sin darse cuenta, que me hacen plantearme las extrañas maneras en las que se interioriza el cambio. Aquí van las tres que más me gustan:&lt;br /&gt;- "Vamos a repasar los verbos más importantes: a fi -ser-, a avea -tener-, a cumpara -comprar-"...&lt;br /&gt;- "En Rumania comemos en media hora o no comemos siquiera, porque no es como antes, ahora tenemos capitalismo y hay que trabajar, no hay tiempo que perder".&lt;br /&gt;- (Sobre el prosciutto) "Sobre gustos no hay nada escrito, y a mí me parece soso; de todas formas, ahora que estamos en Europa debemos adoptar los sabores europeos".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta última frase es toda una gran contradicción mental, ¿verdad?, de esas que tenemos todos... Tal vez sea como se siente una persona que vive el cambio, lo disfruta, pero lo sufre al mismo tiempo: una gran contradicción mental. Un pueblo con un inmenso dolor de cabeza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;I'm taking Romanian lessons. Our teacher is very nice, and she tells a lot of anecdotes (many on food, by the way), and stories on previous students: she's been teaching for at least 20 years, so you can imagine there's some interesting stuff.  But it's not to that anecdotes to what I have given more than a thought, but to some small comments she makes without noticing, as stating a generally agreed truth. I picked some examples:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;- Let´s review the most important verbs in life: "a fi" (to be) "a avea" (to have) "a cumpara" (to buy)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;- In Romania now we eat in just half an hour or don't even eat, because now it's capitalism, and we can't waste time, must work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;- [On Italian ham-prosciutto-] Every people has its taste and we think that prosciutto is not much tasty; however, now that we are in Europe we must enjoy European flavours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;This last sentence is contradictory, isn´t it? Free liking vs. being compelled to like... A contradiction like the ones we all have. But maybe that's how change is incorporated by a person that enjoys it, while suffering it at the same time... A big contradiction, a mental mess. One whole people with a huge headache...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-5713748602954045859?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/5713748602954045859/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=5713748602954045859&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5713748602954045859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/5713748602954045859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/03/frases-memorables-memorable-sentences.html' title='Frases memorables / Unforgettable sentences'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-6469125932508504257</id><published>2008-03-18T20:11:00.031+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.604+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comunismo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='History'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Communism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Historia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Ghosts in the Cellar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In Bucharest, communist ghosts are kept in the cellar... literally. Just at the entrance of the &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-AWJ4dWtCI/AAAAAAAAAFM/jSo5tfXwdgs/s1600-h/Imagen+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-AWJ4dWtCI/AAAAAAAAAFM/jSo5tfXwdgs/s200/Imagen+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179163930506212386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/"&gt;Museum of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/"&gt; Romanian Peasants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;(very nice collection in a very nice building), if you go down a small stair at your right, you will find a couple of tiny rooms with a very particular display of Communist era portraits and symbols: a quite small collection, yet arranged with an ironic touch, from the very beginning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;To the Electoral Section Nº2&lt;/span&gt;].&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;hacia la="" n="" electoral="" mero="" 2=""&gt;&lt;to&gt;&lt;/to&gt;&lt;/hacia&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-AiIodWtFI/AAAAAAAAAFk/5dlxFMx3Bjo/s1600-h/MuseoCampesino4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-AiIodWtFI/AAAAAAAAAFk/5dlxFMx3Bjo/s200/MuseoCampesino4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179177103170909266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's a bunch of Lenin statues scattered around, none of them especially remarcable, yet I love the arrangement of these two professor-like Lenin twin statues, giving each other their speech on Communist wonders and achievements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although some of you had asked me some weeks ago a photo of Ceauşescu remnants, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-AdgodWtEI/AAAAAAAAAFc/4Enseqxe2kQ/s1600-h/MuseoCampesino.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-AdgodWtEI/AAAAAAAAAFc/4Enseqxe2kQ/s200/MuseoCampesino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179172017929630786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;it hadn't been possible so far, as European Union flags wave on the spots once full of Lenin statues and Communist stars, and Ceauşescu left behind many undisguisable huge buildings, but no face at all. But here they are, at last, a whole wall full of Ceauşescu and Stalin portraits on a "bloody Communism" red cloth. The legend keeps the ironic track: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In recognition of Collectivization merits. A group of nostalgic&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aparently, this building used to host the Communist Party museum, at least our wise Wikipedia tells so in its &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Romanian_Peasant"&gt;article on the Museum&lt;/a&gt;. Sure enough, it suits the feeling I had while taking a look at this part of the museum: a piece of recent history cut apart from Romanian history storytelling and left in the cellar, like one would do with grandpa's dusty sofa or useless High School textbooks after Spring Clean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-6469125932508504257?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/6469125932508504257/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=6469125932508504257&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6469125932508504257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/6469125932508504257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/03/ghosts-in-cellar.html' title='Ghosts in the Cellar'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R-AWJ4dWtCI/AAAAAAAAAFM/jSo5tfXwdgs/s72-c/Imagen+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-3734620048465564793</id><published>2008-03-16T20:23:00.018+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.459+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='España'/><title type='text'>Historia de la democracia a través de la burocracia</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Si ya lo sé, si lo que pensaréis es: ¿y por qué te tomaste tantas molestias? Bueno, todo ha sido tozudez: en plan "Lo que el viento se llevó", en el 2000 me dije "Pongo a Dios por testigo de que votaré en unas generales". Así que felicitadme: objetivo cumplido, ahora puedo dedicar los siguientes 8 años de mi vida a alguna empresa más entretenida y placentera...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;3 de marzo de 1996: elecciones generales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;El PP gana las elecciones con una mayoría simple muy ajustada y José María Aznar es elegido presidente del Gobierno con el apoyo de catalanes de CiU, pasando del "Puyol, enano, habla castellano" al "Puyol, guaperas, habla lo que quieras" y a hablar catalán en la intimidad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Esperando mi turno.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;Cumplo 18 años mes y medio después de la elecciones. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;Los analistas, como siempre, intentan extraer conclusiones sobre la actitud política de las nuevas generaciones de electores. No hablan de mí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;13 de junio de 1999: elecciones municipales, autonómicas y europeas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;El PP arrasa en Madrid, como siempre. El alcalde Álvarez del Manzano asiste bajo palio a la misa del Corpus Christi. Desde la Asablea regional, Ruiz Gallardón escucha ópera y coquetea con la intelectualidad mientras saca brillo a sus ambiciones. En el Parlamento Europeo... ¿qué más da?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Voto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;12 de marzo de 2000: elecciones generales. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;El PP obtiene mayoría absoluta y se quita la careta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abstención involuntaria &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;Estoy estudiando con una beca Erasmus en Leeds, Reino Unido. Me pilla desprevenida, y no puedo votar, porque:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;1) No me había dado de alta en el Consulado de Manchester como residente ausente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;2) Si no se es residente ausente, el voto por correo debe tramitarse en España, tanto su solicitud como su envío, y yo no paso por Madrid durante esas fechas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;15 de marzo/26 de octubre de 2003: elecciones autonómicas y municipales. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;Por un momento se roza un cambio. El PP arrasa en el Ayuntamiento (Ruiz Gallardón). El PP es el partido más votado, pero con menos tirón. PSOE e Izquierda Unida llegan a un pacto para gobernar, que fracasa por dos tránsfugas que se rebelan en las filas socialistas. Escándalo veraniego, la derecha cierra filas, el PSOE se debilita más y más. Las elecciones se repiten el 26 de octubre de 2000, y el PP obtiene mayoría absoluta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Vot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;abstención&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;Voto en las inútiles elecciones de marzo; el 4 de octubre llego a Moscú por segunda vez... Aunque hubiera podido solicitar el voto por correo, ya no me iba a encontrar en España cuando lo enviaran a mi domicilio. Me fastidia, aunque no es posible salvar un barco que se hunde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;14 de marzo de 2004: elecciones generales. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;Gana el PSOE (Zapatero). Los ecos del 11-M y la Guerra de Irak resonarán todavía mucho tiempo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Abstención involuntaria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;En otoño de 2003 me doy de alta en el registro de residentes ausentes de la Embajada únicamente pensando en poder votar en las elecciones que se avecinan. Solicito el voto por correo, y pido que me llegue a mi direción de trabajo (la Embajada). Nunca llega.&lt;br /&gt;Los a&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;nalistas, una vez, más, no hablan de mí.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span&gt;Epílogo: el año siguiente, de vuelta a Madrid, al solicitar un certificado de empadronamiento para acceder a un sorteo de vivienda de alquiler subvencionado, descubro que figuro empadronada en Moscú, donde me dieron de alta como residente en vez de considerarme residente temporal, y por tanto he perdido mi antigüedad de 25 años de residente en Madrid. No puedo participar en el sorteo que quería por no figurar como residente en Madrid por un mínimo de 3 años.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;(13 de junio de 2004: elecciones europeas). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Absolutamente borradas de mi memoria (pobriñas).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Abstención indiferente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;To&lt;/span&gt;davía en Moscú. Supongo que no voto. Tampoco lo intento, que yo recuerde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;20 de febrero de 2005: referéndum Constitución UE. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;España ratifica el &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;"Tratado por el que se establece una Constitución para Europa" tras una campaña en la que nadie se molesta en explicar medianamente su contenido a los españoles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Abstención involuntaria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Vivo en &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;Madrid. Mi voto se va para Moscú:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;1) Se toman los datos del censo con 3 meses de antelación (20 de octubre). y yo había solicitado nuevamente el empadronamiento en Madrid -que nunca debería haber perdido- el 24 de octubre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;2) No me había planteado verificar mi inclusión en el censo hasta que veo que se acerca el día y no me ha llegado mi papeleta censal. Lo consulto: se me ha pasado el plazo de reclamación.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;27 de mayo de 2007: elecciones municipales, autonómicas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;El PP arrasa en Madrid, como siempre. El alcalde Gallardón escucha ópera y coquetea con la intelectualidad mientras saca brillo a sus ambiciones. Desde la Asablea regional, Esperanza Aguirre nos va mostrando las suyas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voto &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;(...) ¿Esto no lo he vivido ya antes?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;9 de marzo de 2008: elecciones generales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;El PSOE revalida su mayoría.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Voto. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;El proceso me pilla en pleno traslado a Bucarest. Ha cambiado el sistema: puedo solicitar el voto por correo a una dirección en el extranjero si lo solicito en la embajada antes del 9 de febrero.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;1) Llego a Bucarest el 4; el 5 conozco a un español y le pido si puedo solicitar el voto por correo a su domicilio (yo no encontraría piso hasta el día 11).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;2) Recibo una notificación de que se me deniega el voto por correo por estar duplicado. Llamo: desde la Embajada lo mandaron dos veces, peor no hay problema, me llegará el sobre para votar. Bueno... eso dicen. Veremos, porque ya no me fío.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;3) Recibo las papeletas para el voto, me acerco a una oficina de correos, y con algunos problemillas finalmente consigo enviar mi poco entusiasmado voto. Comento el tema con otros españoles: cada uno hemos enviado el voto de manera diferente, por diferente precio... El sistema de correos rumano nos supera. Nos quedamos con la duda de saber si hemos votado. Me dice Raúl: con el gafe que tú tienes para votar, me da que el que lo ha hehco correctamente soy yo.  Qué mala leche el jodío, pero... probable, visto mi historial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;4) Casualidades de la vida, a mi padre le ha tocado ser vocal en una mesa electoral, en MI misma mesa electoral. ¡Mi voto llega!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-3734620048465564793?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/3734620048465564793/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=3734620048465564793&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/3734620048465564793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/3734620048465564793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/03/una-historia-de-la-democracia-travs-de.html' title='Historia de la democracia a través de la burocracia'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611729356213660.post-804499281570983674</id><published>2008-03-14T20:46:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T05:53:27.704+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucarest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><title type='text'>Turno de noche</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R9rXWodWtAI/AAAAAAAAAE8/SecR1L5nWYM/s1600-h/Marzo+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 121px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R9rXWodWtAI/AAAAAAAAAE8/SecR1L5nWYM/s200/Marzo+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177687505433441282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A veces me gritan en las tiendas. Pero es normal: a veces entro en las tiendas cuando ya han cerrado... a vosotros os pasaría lo mismo, veréis por qué. Si paseas por Bucarest a las 3 de la mañana, noche cerrada, tendrás una sensación fantasmal: todas las tiendas iluminadas, las mesas y los mostradores bien visibles, todo preparado, todo en orden. Casi parece que hubiera caído una bomba atómica y fueras el último en enterarte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El error se produce en esas horas intermedias, entre las 6 de la tarde y las 9 de la noche, en las que una tienda todavía podría estar abierta, en teoría: ves una tienda iluminada y una persona sentada en su puesto, miras el cartel de la puerta, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R9rZ0odWtBI/AAAAAAAAAFE/f9sx8VRs1J4/s1600-h/Marzo+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R9rZ0odWtBI/AAAAAAAAAFE/f9sx8VRs1J4/s200/Marzo+006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177690219852772370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;dice "închis", bien clarito, pero todavia te haces un lío con închis/deschis, te quedas medio minuto haciendo mentalmente închis-deschis-închis-deschis, hasta que tu cabeza se cansa de hacer tic-tac sin sacar nada el claro y decides ir a lo práctico: si la puerta está abierta significa que está abierto... Parece lógico, debería funcionar. Entonces el picaporte gira, entras en la tienda, y te reciben con un "închis!" malumorado. Otra vez has caído en el error de fiarte de la lógica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así que no os fiéis de las tiendas iluminadas, ni siquiera cuando hay gente en su interior. Hay, de hecho, una librería de anticuario en la calle Magheru en la que he visto ya de madrugada al dueño o similar leyendo un libro frente a la caja registradora, al fondo... Insomnio, cuentas de fin de mes, problemas en casa, ausencia de casa... Nunca lo sabré, pero me entretengo imaginando diferentes posibilidades. La sede del Partido Nacional Liberal está arriba.. ¿Tal vez estaban en medio de un aburrido mitin, del que se había escapado?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salgo a airearme, con la excusa de tomar las fotos que ilustran este post, y cuando vuelvo enciendo la radio mientras hago la cena... Radu Munteanu ha acusado de beneficiarse de fondos Phare a la familia del presidente Traian Băsescu. El presidente ha dado un discurso encendido: ha acusado a los medios, a los magnates que controlan ciertos medios, a los periodistas, ha hablado del honor de la familia... Mi rumano ya da para esto (una palabra de cada tres, y como se han pasado hora y media hablando del tema ha sido casi como una prueba de audición en la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas...), pero todavía no sé quién en el Pedro J. rumano, quién controla el Grupo Prisa de turno, quién es un político sin mácula (aparente), a quién apoyar... Hago una búsqueda rápida, pero la sabiduría combinada de Google y Wikipedia me falla: poca información, y muy políticamente correcta. Tal vez no sepa nunca a favor de quién estar, la política en este país es muy enrevesada. Y las implicaciones veladas de las referencias al pasado comunista, que en Rusia controlaba más o menos, aquí todavía se me escapan... Bueno, veremos qué os puedo contar en seis meses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.D. Costel Busuioc ganó el concurso. Ahora están en la radio comparándole con Pavaroti, Carreras, Caruso... Intentando establecer la "grandeza" de la estrella que ha nacido. Espero que no pongan en duda la grandeza del fenómeno: la última gala fue retransmitida en directo por dos TV rumanas y una radio, y luego en diferido el día siguiente (yo vi un trozo ese día, con sus mensajes del "envía por 0,65 euros un SMS de felicitación a Costel... hay que sacar dinero). Y en una reunión en el Ministerio de Educación mi anfitriona lo primero que me preguntó es si había visto el concurso, lo primero que asoció a mi "españolidad".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/72611729356213660-804499281570983674?l=este-sudeste.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/feeds/804499281570983674/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=72611729356213660&amp;postID=804499281570983674&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/804499281570983674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/72611729356213660/posts/default/804499281570983674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://este-sudeste.blogspot.com/2008/03/turno-de-noche.html' title='Turno de noche'/><author><name>Pereulok</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01919110406337767844</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/SEqUeq5dW5I/AAAAAAAAAIE/f0Gj88oM80w/S220/2289808004_33ea91e654.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gpjRQN17NLE/R9rXWodWtAI/AAAAAAAAAE8/SecR1L5nWYM/s72-c/Marzo+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:bl
