Ready to party

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Dec 312009
 

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The stage for the New Year Party sponsored by Bucharest’s City Hall has already been installed in front of the Palace of Parliament, in the Constitution Square and was being tested last night when I passed by. Thousands of people are expected to attend the event and enjoy the music and the fireworks. The only drawback so far is that the weather forecast for tonight shows 20% chance of rain. I went to a New Year Party in the open air a few years ago and it was a nice experience. But this year I’ll be staying indoors and waiting for the arrival of the new year in the company of friends.

Happy New Year everyone and all the best in the new year! I see you in 2010 🙂

Partially white

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Dec 242009
 

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December 24th turned out to be a nice and sunny day, with clear blue skies as you can see from today’s photo. It looks like we’re gonna have a partially white Christmas as the snow from last week’s snowfall has melted away and created ugly mountains of snow and mud.

Same spot Friday last week (December 18th)


Same spot Monday last week (December 14th)

This Is What It Was Like in Bucharest…

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Dec 232009
 

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Because this year we celebrated twenty years since the Romanian Revolution, the media bombarded us with anniversary shows, images, articles etc, related to the subject. Twenty years have passed but unfortunately many Romanians feel that there are still unanswered questions related to the Romanian Revolution like who was responsible for shooting at the revolutionaries and what happened after Ceausescu fled. Many people believe that the revolution was the hijacked by the “humane” communists (as Mr. Iliescu who came to power after the Revolution tried to picture himself) and a few go as far as saying that it was more coup d’etat than a people’s revolution. Still 1104 people died for their believes, many of them anonymous and heroic citizens of Bucharest, and for this I will continue to call it a revolution no matter what happened at the top. But it is frustrating, the impression that you don’t know what really happened back then.

Today’s photo shows one of these commemorative events, an exhibition titled “This is what is was like in Bucharest… 20 years since the Romanian Revolution” taking place in the University Square underground passage. The exhibition contains photographs and short films from the streets of Bucharest December 1989, trying to capture the atmosphere of those days.

December 21st 1989

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Dec 212009
 

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21st of December 2009 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Romanian Revolution, the popular uprising that ended the communist dictatorship. On December 21st 1989 the citizens of Bucharest joined the protests started in Timişoara on December 16th and, as they say, the rest is history. It was a day that changed the rest of my life and for which I am and always will be grateful.

Today’s photo shows a sign posted in the little square featured in my first post on this blog. The sign reads “They died here for liberty/21-22 December 1989” (it’s an approximate translation but I can’t think of a better one).

And it keeps on snowing

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Dec 182009
 

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My words (“Let is snow!”) from three days ago were taken way too seriously 🙂 It’s been snowing since Tuesday and it keeps on snowing as I write this post. I wanted a white Christmas but I didn’t bargain for this. I want to be able to leave the house 🙂 I’m actually starting to worry that my fridge is empty 🙂

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