tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12623118086173121702011-11-28T02:04:22.822+02:00A blog about living,travelling and loving art,culture,good food and nice people. In Romania, EuropeRosabellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11059516501008876718noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1262311808617312170.post-47835317990049980972011-11-19T10:53:00.005+02:002011-11-19T14:56:27.319+02:00

Will this help ? I surely hope so ! Since yesterday I am officially on Alli ! I have to lose about 10 kg ( 22 lb) in order to return to the figure that suits me best . Also, I’ll be able  to wear again most of my clothes, and that IS ,indeed, motivation ! I am monitoring everything I eat on Sparkpeople, I walk to and  from office ( I am fortunate  to live close enough to it to actually be able

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At the end of October 2011, Romania celebrated its king ! King Michael I was invited to address the Parliament, enjoyed a glamorous gala at the National Opera, where lots of  personalities and royal families came to be close to him and he threw a grand party with the occasion of getting to 90 years ! Today, he is the last survivor from the group of leaders from WWII times. King Michael I with

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I said I would get back on the Churches in Rome topic but I delayed it, since I had a busy time and had to travel a lot for some business threads that could no longer wait. I am back today on this subject, which is fascinating and compelling… I said that I saw an awful lot of churches in Rome and I don’t wanna  see another church for a long, long,  time. Well, I was lying. Err…hmmm… I wasn’t

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 After spending a romantic  week in Rome , fearing it will happen just like last year, when having toured for a marvelous fortnight all over central and northern Greece  I got home ready to share it on my blog and finally did not write a single word  about it, I’ve decided it is high time I started writing . Just to make sure I’ll not give up like last time! …  I am not the regular traveler and

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There comes a time when selling pizzas, coffees and sweets doesn't pay off anymore... Imagine you are the owner of a small pizzeria or caffe  and you suddenly understand you cannot go on with it... What do you do ? You decide you can try selling clothes for a while and there you go, out the pizza shop and in the clothes! I have seen this while visiting a city in Transylvania and I couldn't

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There's no doubt Madame Miuccia Prada is a communist. I only suspect she has decided long ago to undermine the capitalist society from within. This is the only coherent enough conclusion if one sees her fashion and perfumery. She is producing crap just to cash in big money from stupid rich people and I don't think anyone should blame her ... Everything is ugly at Prada - the colours , the shapes,

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Hm, it's been quite a long time.... The idea is I am not much of a blogger. I love reading good posts, I would like to have a nice blog but I just can't do it. It is useless, it does not bring in anything. And it's work. Why would I do it ?It's irrelevant! It is not literature, not art, not value - it is just a ' pretending". So, I don't think I will come back to posting ( But who knows,maybe

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I don't get it why so many Greek women carry so manny bags with them all the time,but it seems to be some kind of hype thing in Athens these days.

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On Sunday, the 20th ,this month, we will leave for a well deserved 2 weeks holiday in Greece. We plan to visit the northern continental part( we visited Crete twice and the third visit to the Minotaure shall wait a bit) and also a 3 days visit to Athens. I don't think I will have time to update meanwhile the blog and reilly,I don't plan to. It's been a stressful year, the effects of the business

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I 'VE GOTT TAGGED TODAY BY PIGLET ! THX A LOT, IT WAS A WONDERFUL SURPRISE ! 1. Why did you start a blog? Well, I thought it was kind of exploring the world and making new friends without leaving my home…. On the other hand, I have always loved the internet and I have experienced it with whatever happened to be the hype of the moment. Just name it: chat,irc,icq,skype….blog. I guess I started

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 Not that it is not fun.... not that this is right in front of the Courthouse.... not that you  can't change your line and have to "go with the flow' no matter where it takes you... not that you're trying to get to a business meeting and be, at least relatively on time... It is just that the idea of fixing things is always causing trouble.  They could try to fix the road at night or very early

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The people who know me know I am madly in love with gardening and especially with growing roses. 5 years ago, when we moved to the house we have been living in so far, I decided to make my own Sleeping Beauty -like garden,full of climbing roses,dark bushes and stunning clematis.... I think I have managed to make it up to my dreams but sometimes I wish I had stayed with a monotonous lawn with firs

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Today it's been one of the most warm and beautiful days of this year. Considering last weekend it was heavily raining , today was paradise on earth: sun, warm weather, a bit of a nice sunny wind , so it was perfect time for some of our garden to start blooming. Since we left Bucharest and moved here I started to "garden" and gardening has been growing on me a lot. I have learned everything from

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Today, during lunch break I met my husband downtown and we spent a lovely hour together, chit-chatting and having the first ice-cream on a terrace, for 2010. It was warm ,sunny and all in all, a perfect time to enjoy both the exquisite ice cream and the light, glowing air. I had yoghurt ice cream with strawberries and he had a chocolate and mint one, with an expresso. Ah, it felt so good. !

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This post has been inspird by a very nice post of Piglet in France.I found her blog while rambling over the net and loved it. Her post was about driving in France and the right priority rule :)) My post is related to driving, right priority rule in Romania and preparing for the driving license test. Not only to take a driving license is a dreadful complicated thing, but learning for the test

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It has been raining in the last 24 hours and the south of Romania is now covered in snow. This is the old house across the street- I see it every day when I walk by and I have always loved it. This is what it looks like today: This is another splendour - a corner house representative for the late 19th century architecture. Unfortunately, just like the one across my house it should be

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Travelling in the southern Romania ,in a cold february afternoon. I was going to visit the city of Slatina, Olt County . The roads were  empty, with a void, almost Russian atmosphere which was very strange since this part of the country is usually crowded, sunny and friendly. Alas, the day these photos were shot the gloomy air made the whole place hard to recognise. We felt like in a Nikita

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Grafittis on Stirbei Voda Boulevard in Bucharest, the capital caity of Romania. Once a former cleaning and ironing shop, the building got closed althogh it's located in the very center. Someone decided it should be 'transformed'with grafitti paint. This is the ground floor. The upper floors remained untouched by colour. It is hard to say if this is a case of "beauty assasination" or a mere way of

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