Viatǎ mea în România în momentul asta…: octombrie 2006

bonn...

after berlin, i went on to bonn to visit my friend, prasad, and his wife, anita, and their adorable little girl, anoka. this is a picturesque town, home to beethoven, everybody uses bicycles, andd flower boxes hang in every window. i was suspicious in berlin but now it is quite clear that the hefe weizen flows through the rivers in germany.

prasad's castle

bedtime story... anoka's english is impeccable though she'd never admit it

at the riverside

prasad teaching anoka how to skip stones

beautiful bonn

Etichete: bonn, chrissy boyd, christine miller, europe, germany, travel

berlin

i began my fourteen months in romania with a week in spain, where i had a conference with the gypsy lore society. it is only fitting that i end my time in romania with a week in germany, kicked off by a human rights conference in berlin. let's get all the touristy stuff out of the way...

here's checkpoint charlie. i paid a euro to get a pic with this cute soldier. you know there must be a woman behind this marketing ploy

this is the last remaining section of the berlin wall (well, except for the thousands of chunks you can buy in the tourist shops)

brandenburg gate where east met west. the new american embassy will take up residence just to the left

holocaust memorial... very disorienting. major kudos to the architect

reichstag

Etichete: berlin, conference, europe, germany, human rights, travel

noapte ultima.... prea bun sa oprit acuma

how can i leave cluj without one last pizza campignola cu ketchup picant la roland garros? cu flavius, amy, si mihai

what a bunch of hams!

i'm drinking ciuc? must be time to go home

so on the way home through the park at 4am (plane leaves at 6), mihai and i decide to let our inner 5-year olds out and play on the slide. apparently we gave quite a shock to the couple getting busy in the cubby... look to the right of the slide