The Monastery at Curtea de Arges

There’s a boulevard in Curtea de Argeș, Romania that never sleeps. The one-way traffic on Bulevardul Basarabilor is constant and oblivious to a speed limit. Pedestrians amble the sidewalks along the narrow, tree-lined thoroughfare at a steady pace.  Young and …

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The road to Dracula's castle.

If only I had more time. . . I’d visit every one of the areas of interest in the Wallachia, Dobruja, Transylvania, and Banat-Crisana regions of Romania I’m highlighting in this post. I’m going to share with you from Welcome …

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In the Carpathian Mountains

Romania has a rich and complex history, which I never quite understood, until I decided to study and summarize the history section in Welcome to Bucharest and Romania, gifted to us by the concierge at EuropaRoyale Hotel Bucharest in 2019. After finishing this …

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Nutmeg, August 2021

We said farewell to our cairn terrier, Nutmeg, on July 8, 2022, and although she was 13 years old, we were completely taken by surprise when she was diagnosed with bone cancer a few weeks ago and given one to …

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A Italian woman finds her murdered son and caresses him in her shock and sorrow. (Screen grab from Women of the Resistance.)

Brave female resistance fighters in Italy were tortured, and often murdered, for their bravery in the World War II resistance movement.

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A woman kisses a man while cooking on an open fire outside an apartment building which had no electricity, water or gas since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Courtesy Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2nctqso

I, like so many, feel utterly helpless sitting here at home while a maniacal monster scourges the landscape of Ukraine. I wish I could reach back in time and change the course of history and the insidious spread of communism …

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