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A step closer to realising a dream: a home in the Romanian Bucovina
My love affair with Romanian entered a new phase a few days ago when we visited friends in the Bucovina town of Câmpulung Moldovenesc. These friends knew we were looking for a house in the region with...
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Waking up from the Bucovina dream
As so often in Romania, things are not as they seem nor as you have been told. The necessary legal documents to buy the ‘dream house’ (see previous post) were not in order as we had been assured they...
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A bit of Romania in Yorkshire – minus chocolate cakes
Daniel’s cafe/bistro Ilkley is not run by Daniel but by his daughter Miruna and her husband. The name is a tribute to Miruna’s father who runs a hotel in our other favourite place, the Romanian...
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… New Year’s Day –‘clearing the table’, Vienna New Year concert and … the...
Ricardo Muti, this year’s conductor and in the year of our marriage, 2000 I’d usually write about my New Year experience in one post but this time was persuaded to break it into two parts, so here’s...
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Herbal teas and being born again in the Romanian Bucovina
What remains of herbal teas brought back from Romania last summer, foraged by my ‘honorary grandmother’ I began to appreciate herbal teas only due to an experience during my second year in Romania,...
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俳文 – haibun #0
俳文 This is my first attempt at haibun. Discovering an old ‘diary’ of my first two months in Romania, in 1993, bringing to mind events and emotions I had entirely forgotten, and reawakening those I had...
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Back in the Romanian city, Iași. Better in Neamț & Bucovina
With Paula, my pupil a quarter of a century ago, in her home in the beautiful Bistrița valley After a seven and a quarter hours drive, including a couple of stops, I’m back in the city, Romania’s...
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România. La mulți ani! Seven things you may not know about Romania
The Romanian flag Only two weeks ago I posted about Latvia’s 100th birthday. Today (1 December 2018) we celebrate the 100th birthday of Romania – when Transylvania and Banat came together with ‘The...
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Yorkshire Day
Some might say the Yorkshire Rose china, from Royal Doulton, is too fine for Yorkshire tea, but we can be posh tha knows This is the first Yorkshire Day (today) for several years for which I’ve been in...
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I enjoy today, International Women’s Day, as I have many more female friends than male ones and always have had. So, to all you ladies who follow my blog or happen upon it accidentally Have a great day...
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