No one really knows where the good stuff, sold here at ridiculous prices ,comes from. No one dares ask how this merchandise from well-known ...

catching fish See the red spot on the steep rock? That's a young man dressed in a red shirt catching fish in the Bistrita (Bistritza) r...

Where I live, summers are very hot and humid, so I often try to escape the sticky reality by letting my imagination run freely to cool, icy ...

"Don't trust women and don't trust the clutch "- this piece of 'advice' was written on the back of a car in a vil...

Place - the medieval fortress 'Cetatea' (the citadel) on a high hill overlooking the city of Brasov. It has four towers, a canon, ...

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Dracula - portrait Bran Castle on top, souvenir market at the bottom Dracula as a 'sex symbol' (postcard) Vlad Dracul, who inspire...

I'll be away for a little while, somewhere in east Europe, on a sort of small 'roots trip' . It will start with locating the gra...

The Herodeion , on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece, is a stone theatre that has hosted many musical concerts and fa...

Ben Bernanke (the chairman of the Fed) is printing dollars like there's no tomorrow. Stanley Fischer (the Governor of Bank 0f Israel) ...

Once in a while, I get stung by a bee. When it happens, the pain is agonizing and I unwillingly produce a loud , high -pitched scream. Luck...

Someone has recently emailed me the above video and I can' t help watching it again and again.. This video is an irresistible combinatio...

Can't eat pork Swine flu... Can't eat chicken, Bird Flu.. Can't eat beef Mad cow.. Can't eat eggs Sallmonella.. Can't ea...

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) , the famous physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher - was born in Pisa, Italy. (The term 'physi...

Anita Ekberg in the 'Trevi Fountain' scene I've recently come across some online jokes with the following title: 'King David...