Random neural activity

Here I am, back from a very interesting trip to Romania. We traveled around the country for a dozen days, by car. There are many different things that strikes you while moving from one part to another in Romania…

The roads are, on some main routes, quite good; but most of them are still very difficult to use. The stress on the car and on the driver can be very high. I remember a single stretch of 30 Km than drained my energies more than the final 1100 Km day on the way back to Italy.

Landscapes are wonderful and quite different in the different areas, ranging from Carpathian Mountains to great plains to endless hills.

Some parts are wonderfully rural. You can see people living quite well, just on a different technological pace. And you wonder if they’re not living somehow better than you do in your stressing “civilized” home town

Some other parts are just plainly poor, and make you think how lucky you are to live with “problems” that are definitely on a different (much smaller) order of magnitude.

99% of drivers in Romania are just crazy. Dangerous. Outrageously so. We neatly risked our lives more than once.

People are everywhere very, very friendly, eager to give you the info you need, even when no common language is spoken And yes, many of the girls are strikingly beautiful, especially in the west part of the country. My girlfriend judged men to be definitely not that appealing

I’ll probably write some more in the future about this trip… that’s enough for today