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Final 8 Nov 2010 | 11:23 am
Two months ago we were concluding the tour of the Black Sea after 80 days, 13.000 kilometres, 11 countries (including the separatist republics) and over 360.000 blog hits at over 80.000 unique visitor...
The last one out did turn off the lights 4 Nov 2010 | 10:25 am
Out of all the places we have visited on this trip which officially ends here, for me the biggest surprise was Dobruja. But the secluded Dobruja, the one avoided today even by the alternative roads ad...
Fishing on Lake Razelm 22 Oct 2010 | 05:07 am
In the old days, things went something like this: dawn hadn’t broken yet when the boats would quietly glide down the channel, in groups of eight, connected to one another by bowlines and pulled by a s...
Lipovan villages of Dobruja 19 Oct 2010 | 05:46 am
The Romanian villages of Dobruja left me with a taste of dust and a feeling of human despair, with barefoot children raised by whoever can, people staring vacantly through cheap alcohol vapours in a f...
Dobruja is on its uppers 16 Oct 2010 | 12:27 am
Despite being as poor as a church mouse, Dobruja seems to be the most dignified region of Romania. Poor, rough, remote, its ground full of deep ridges caused by drought, breathtakingly beautiful wilde...
E misto la Techirghiol 13 Oct 2010 | 08:19 pm
The situation was rather embarrassing. Petruţ in blue Speedos, covered in a heavy, shiny black layer of mud out of his sincere wish to become part of the motley group come for treatment; an old couple...
The agony of the Romanian seaside * 11 Oct 2010 | 09:11 am
As the project Around the Black Sea began in Romania, it will also end in Romania, but not before passing through a poverty-ridden Dobruja (though dominated by windmills), more precisely, through seve...
Turkey during Ramadan 1 Oct 2010 | 07:54 pm
Our first days in Turkey were marked by a strange sensation of tense expectancy. The beaches were deserted, the streets were enveloped in slumber and the breeze was blowing beautifully, filling the em...
The people we met 30 Sep 2010 | 09:07 pm
We went on every little street in Kıyıköy and looked into the people’s yards where we saw the women stripping the corn cobs of their kernels, hanging the laundry in the sun and working with the pots i...
Fishermen in Turkey, poachers in Romania 29 Sep 2010 | 03:04 am
I’ve always wondered what the poachers on the Turkish fishing vessels displaying random flags and being summoned with hundreds of gunshots by the Romanian border police look like. Judging by the news ...
