Category Archives: Romania
Târgu Mureș, where the mayor is xenophobic and racist
I have always told people how welcomed I felt in Târgu Mureș. From the first week, I made really good friends, I felt integrated and I made this cute little town in Romania my home. But probably it only went that well because I … Continue reading
Visit Romania! (1964)
Ok, the film is a little bit older, but honestly, Romania isn’t all that much different today.
Mountains in Romania
There are places where everyone wanted to visit me while I lived there. Sicily was such a place. Particularly after they learned that I lived right by the beach, almost every week relatives and friends wanted to come over . In other places, I … Continue reading
Planes disturbing the sunset
The sky above Targu Mures in Romania is busy, probably because of all the extra flights coming into town for our TEDx conference.
A polite coffee
At a café in Sibiu, Romania: One coffee – 6 lei One coffee please – 3 lei Good morning, one coffee please – 2 lei Polite, as I always am, I get a really good deal here. 2 lei are 50 US-cents.
The last sliver of sunlight
A few minutes ago in Târgu Mureș, Romania:
Airport in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The hangars at Cluj-Napoca airport in Romania look like this:Ok, there is also one of these modern blocks of concrete now, like you see them everywhere else. But I appreciated that the old hangar hadn’t been demolished. That way I could … Continue reading
I will give a TEDx Talk on 12 September 2015
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” said Andy Warhol in 1968. That premonition came true 20 years later with the TED conferences. Including the independently organized TEDx conferences, there are now several of these events every day, all over … Continue reading
Hopeful Ducks
Unfortunately, we had no food for them. Actually, we were beginning to get hungry ourselves, so the ducks should be happy that we didn’t take one of them with us. Photographed in the Central Park in Cluj-Napoca, Romania by my … Continue reading
A few Alms for the Church
You know these donation boxes at airports, where you are supposed to drop the change that you couldn’t spend during your vacation? Often they are made of glass, for you to see how generous other travelers have been. So you pull … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 