This year flew like a moment. I remenber January holiday like it was a month ago. I don't know but it seems to me that time is been compressed and still going. Anyway the scientists say we have only 16 hours per day instead of 24 hours....and after 2008 this seems more plausible. Anyway they assured us not to worry at least not until 2012. Long story about this one anyway...and no time to explain it...heheheh.
Anyway it's nice to be at work these days. It's quiet and nothing much to do. On the streets of Cluj it's crazy, it's the presents' rush these days. At home lots and lots to do or cook...so at work it's the best!
Anyway, for everybody, draw a line, make a sum of 2008 and let 2009 be better! I wish you all a Merry White Christmas! and a Happy decompressed 2009!
Cheers!
marți, 23 decembrie 2008
miercuri, 10 decembrie 2008
Winter holidays
I know I'be been busy, lazy, busy and lazy again. I have taken some special prefessional courses in order to become a mediator...long story to explain what that means. We've been working extra, we've been celebrating Peter's birthday with a trip to the Danube (Iron Gates)and we've expected Saint Nicholas to bring some presents.
Now we're expecting Santa, Bro and Chris to come from UK for Cristmas...whcih will be hopefully a white Christmas at home in the familiy, and New Years' Eve in Bucovina to our friends Anca and Stefan and little David.
We're expecting holidays in a word and we're in the middle of choosing and byuing presents! It's not an easy job but it gives you great satisfaction in the end.
Until then we're enjoying our friends and sons-in-law Ioana and Goerge whom yesterday stepped on Romanian ground again. They're home and they're fine and are the friends we always miss as we can talk with them for hours and can't realize what time is it!
PS: Happy birthday George for today!
Well we (Anca & Peter)wish you all the best for Christmas and A New Year full of joy and happiness! Cheers!
Now we're expecting Santa, Bro and Chris to come from UK for Cristmas...whcih will be hopefully a white Christmas at home in the familiy, and New Years' Eve in Bucovina to our friends Anca and Stefan and little David.
We're expecting holidays in a word and we're in the middle of choosing and byuing presents! It's not an easy job but it gives you great satisfaction in the end.
Until then we're enjoying our friends and sons-in-law Ioana and Goerge whom yesterday stepped on Romanian ground again. They're home and they're fine and are the friends we always miss as we can talk with them for hours and can't realize what time is it!
PS: Happy birthday George for today!
Well we (Anca & Peter)wish you all the best for Christmas and A New Year full of joy and happiness! Cheers!
marți, 4 noiembrie 2008
Lazy October...Ups!
It seems that I had no inspiration during this October but I'll make it up to you during November.
joi, 30 octombrie 2008
The place where time stopped
Yes, it's in Romania, not far from Cluj, and it's is known as "Padis".
Actually it's part of Apuseni Mountains, an area populated to the top of the mountain and hills, but where everyday all you can hear is the ring bell from the cows neck - practically an old version of a gps in order to know where the animals are...were they eaten by the bears or not? ;)
In these places people base only on raising cattle and on wood. In the winter they are blocked in the mountains and 3-4 months have to stay by the fire and "make children" as one of the villagers said. The actual distance from a house to another is about 3-4 km, imagine that one is on my hill and yous is on the other hill. Quite funny and comfortable for a tourist, but for local folks I can't imagine what can happen if they need an egg to make a pancake...Holly Christ...they need to have some imagination.
We were invited by a friend who owns a chalet in that parts and who was celebrating her birthday. And as Peter's birthday is coming they agreed to celebrate together.
These friends have about 45 years old having big kids...but damn they know how to have fun. We were talking with Peter and made a conclusion: the BIG guys know how to party, maybe it's because they do not do this too often, maybe because they have more experience with these things...or maybe they simply know how to do it! Anyway they're really cool.
We had walks in the forest, picking-up mushrooms (they say they were good ones...I can't make the difference so that's why I do not eat them:) and Saturday evening we made a big fire (well Peter is the fire-boy) and cooked some sausages, mici, slanina (it's not like the tiny, not tasty, English bacon) and chicken. We had potato salad and garlic salad (mujdei for those who know what I'm talking about).
Overall it was a delicious, tasty, unforgetable, fat, not healthy feast like we the Romanians are used to do in open air and then feel sick the next day. But it was worth it. We has champagne, wine, beer and local tzuica so everybody was happy. The next day the nature seemed more friendly so we had a visit in Peter's opened truck to the Belis Lake. My hand got frozen on the iron bars of the car but it was damn fun! We tasted some almost frozen berries from the wood and then hardly, Sunday in the afternoon we got our things and headed again for Cluj.
God how I love nature!
PS: For more picture enjoy my photoblog.
Actually it's part of Apuseni Mountains, an area populated to the top of the mountain and hills, but where everyday all you can hear is the ring bell from the cows neck - practically an old version of a gps in order to know where the animals are...were they eaten by the bears or not? ;)
In these places people base only on raising cattle and on wood. In the winter they are blocked in the mountains and 3-4 months have to stay by the fire and "make children" as one of the villagers said. The actual distance from a house to another is about 3-4 km, imagine that one is on my hill and yous is on the other hill. Quite funny and comfortable for a tourist, but for local folks I can't imagine what can happen if they need an egg to make a pancake...Holly Christ...they need to have some imagination.
We were invited by a friend who owns a chalet in that parts and who was celebrating her birthday. And as Peter's birthday is coming they agreed to celebrate together.
These friends have about 45 years old having big kids...but damn they know how to have fun. We were talking with Peter and made a conclusion: the BIG guys know how to party, maybe it's because they do not do this too often, maybe because they have more experience with these things...or maybe they simply know how to do it! Anyway they're really cool.
We had walks in the forest, picking-up mushrooms (they say they were good ones...I can't make the difference so that's why I do not eat them:) and Saturday evening we made a big fire (well Peter is the fire-boy) and cooked some sausages, mici, slanina (it's not like the tiny, not tasty, English bacon) and chicken. We had potato salad and garlic salad (mujdei for those who know what I'm talking about).
Overall it was a delicious, tasty, unforgetable, fat, not healthy feast like we the Romanians are used to do in open air and then feel sick the next day. But it was worth it. We has champagne, wine, beer and local tzuica so everybody was happy. The next day the nature seemed more friendly so we had a visit in Peter's opened truck to the Belis Lake. My hand got frozen on the iron bars of the car but it was damn fun! We tasted some almost frozen berries from the wood and then hardly, Sunday in the afternoon we got our things and headed again for Cluj.
God how I love nature!
PS: For more picture enjoy my photoblog.
miercuri, 24 septembrie 2008
Bucovina
It's always a pleasure for us to visit our dear friends Anca and Stefan and from one year on our godson David. They live in Suceava in Bucovina, north-east of Romania. Great place, great peoples, great food. We planned a visit as David, the little one, celebrated his first birthday, and it's a real tradition that the godparents take part in this celebration and put the little one to choose from different objects: pen, book, money, medicine, etc. in order to see what is he going to become when grown-up! Interesting and funny at the same time. For David the book, the money and the mouse seemed to be the most interesting and then the medicine. I'm proud of him...hopefully he''ll make money out of books :).
Even the weather was the coldest ever...it almost snowed, we had great time. David it's growing up fast and becoming more and more curious. He's already walking on his own feet!
He's crazy about Peter as you'll see from the photos and not so crazy about me...I'm not fun for him:(.
That weekend we visited Humorului Monastery and it's tower and some nice B&B's from the region. Actually tourism it's the main occupation on these parts as a Monastery is every street corner and history and Stephen the Great is everywhere. You can see for yourselves how time seems to have stopped!
No inspiration for me tonight....I'm not very good with words tonight;) so let the pics speak:
Even the weather was the coldest ever...it almost snowed, we had great time. David it's growing up fast and becoming more and more curious. He's already walking on his own feet!
He's crazy about Peter as you'll see from the photos and not so crazy about me...I'm not fun for him:(.
That weekend we visited Humorului Monastery and it's tower and some nice B&B's from the region. Actually tourism it's the main occupation on these parts as a Monastery is every street corner and history and Stephen the Great is everywhere. You can see for yourselves how time seems to have stopped!
No inspiration for me tonight....I'm not very good with words tonight;) so let the pics speak:
Escape
Was the last summer day...although in September, when we had 30 degrees Celsius and after which a drop to 6-8 degrees followed. Anyway I think we have to get used to having two seasons per year instead of four seasons. So the last day of summer 2008 we spent it in nature, having a "relaxation" and realizing that we're getting tired too soon after climbing a hill. Anyway Cheile Turzii a natural splendor near Cluj-Napoca welcomed us with it well-known fresh air, green trees and wild cliffs.
And when you think that we used to "conquer" the 2000 cliffs of Retezat one day and now we can barely get our feet up to the cross of Cheile Turzii. You can enjoy the full trip on my photo album. There you can see our trip car - a Dacia 4x4 and in the first picture the desperate try of our authorities to have a highway in Transylvania.
Anyway it was quite a hot day on the mountain!
And when you think that we used to "conquer" the 2000 cliffs of Retezat one day and now we can barely get our feet up to the cross of Cheile Turzii. You can enjoy the full trip on my photo album. There you can see our trip car - a Dacia 4x4 and in the first picture the desperate try of our authorities to have a highway in Transylvania.
Anyway it was quite a hot day on the mountain!
luni, 1 septembrie 2008
A well deserved holiday
After ages of working at the office and then at home we took a Friday off and set to conquer Hajduszoboszlo, a nice Hungarian resort very close to the border with Romania. The resort is something more like a seaside as it has water pools for all kinds of taste, gender, age or preferences. It has also hot water pools with healing effect too. It proved to be very inspired as outside were no more than 20 degrees Celsius on Sunday.
We enjoyed the wave water pool (artificial waves of course - but very challenging. we had some days of relaxation as we had never had for months. It was not our first time there....we've been there 2 years ago and enjoyed even more. Here are some pics (we didn't take too many) where you can see the adventurers we took with us ;)
No need for introduction for this fellow:)
Here is from right to left: Mom, Mother-in-law and Father-in-law:
Peter and his sister, Erika:
The lake for boat navigation, full of big fishes, ready to be eaten :)
Here is our "black rat"...very confortable indeed:
And here is my father too...very hard to settle him down:
No need to say how much we all enjoyed everything...these guys can be very funny and party people!
Oh man! How I liked bathing and thinking only about what should I eat next? Chocolate or Apples?
We enjoyed the wave water pool (artificial waves of course - but very challenging. we had some days of relaxation as we had never had for months. It was not our first time there....we've been there 2 years ago and enjoyed even more. Here are some pics (we didn't take too many) where you can see the adventurers we took with us ;)
No need for introduction for this fellow:)
Here is from right to left: Mom, Mother-in-law and Father-in-law:
Peter and his sister, Erika:
The lake for boat navigation, full of big fishes, ready to be eaten :)
Here is our "black rat"...very confortable indeed:
And here is my father too...very hard to settle him down:
No need to say how much we all enjoyed everything...these guys can be very funny and party people!
Oh man! How I liked bathing and thinking only about what should I eat next? Chocolate or Apples?
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