Category: Romania

Street play

Dust, dung, children playing along, that’s a typical village street.

street play

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Wheel of fortune

Come and play the wheel of fortune, just one coin and everybody wins something!

wheel of fortune

If you are lucky (and underage), you may win even a bottle of wine

wheel of fortune

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Vivant

Bucharest is holding these days a Vivant Statues International Festival, unfortunately I could only catch a glimpse from its first day.

vivant

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Crafts

Children performing/learning/playing with various crafts like pottery, weaving or gardening. After all, there is something cute at such hipster festivals as Street Delivery.

crafts
crafts
crafts

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Little painters

A lot of workshops took place at the Street Delivery festival and many of them were painting for children.

little painters
little painters
little painters
little painters

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Smiling faces

During the Street Delivery festival, even the street itself is smiling (with the help from some kids):

smiling faces

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Tango Delivery

Tango in the streets is something you can see more and more happening in the city at various events, so it couldn’t miss from this year’s Street Delivery

tango delivery
tango delivery
tango delivery

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Ana are mere

“Ana are mere”, it make no sense if you don’t speak Romanian. Even translating it in English to “Ana has apples” does not make much sense for a post title. It may make more sense when you learn “Ana are mere” is the first phrase kids start learning to read and write in school. It will make more sense after you learn this little girl is named Ana and according to the religious tradition a child can use his name (the name obtained legally in the first days of live) only after baptized.

Ana are mere
Ana are mere
Ana are mere
Ana are mere
Ana are mere

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Book

Unfortunately, I couldn’t manage to see the title of the book this homeless guy was reading. Judging by the back cover picture, it may be Sci-Fi, but that’s just a wild guess.

book

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Derelict

Around the abandoned glass factory ruins.

derelict

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Sticlariei Park

Behind the abandoned glass factory there is an abandoned park, called Parcul Sticlariei (English: Glass Factory Park). The urban legends say it never opened as a park, despite large sums of money being invested and it being ready for opening a few times. Now it looks like a jungle inside the city, fascinating.

sticlariei
sticlariei
sticlariei
sticlariei

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May Day is Workers Day

The old communist regime prided itself with its factories, many of them being useless, intended mostly to produce… workers. Is no wonder so many of them are now abandoned (well, the causes for abandon are multiple, is also the temptation of quick money we see those days and the general ruin of the country). So yesterday for the May Day I visited the ruins of an old glass factory, Stiteh, somewhere in Bucharest (near Republica). Is a complete ruin, but guarded, I was allowed to take only pictures from the outside.

stiteh
stiteh
stiteh

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Village spring

This spring picture is not taken in a real village, but at the Village Museum in Bucharest

village spring

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Flowers Day

The Village Museum in Bucharest hosted a fair for the Flowers Day (that’s one day before the Easter), this fair is pretty much a tradition, it happens every year and many people try not to miss it.

flowers day

I went there to take some pictures with flowers and old buildings in the background and also pictures of people.

flowers day

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Not Tokyo

Despite some appearances, this is Bucharest, not Tokyo

not Tokyo

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