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We just had a nice weekend in the Bucegi mountains with Inna. The Bucegi national park is only about a two-hour drive from Bucharest and offers a nice change with fresh air and solitude. To be able to enjoy that solitude you have to make it out of the parking lot though!
There's a small pack of apparently very hungry dogs roaming around the parking lot that is closest to the famous Babele and Sphinx rocks. The dogs approach anyone and everyone who arrives at the parking lot, get a bit too close for comfort and grab any food or remains of food they can find. This time Inna wasn't being cautious enough and a big male dog grabbed a trash bag off her hand, ripped it open and ate the egg shells that were in it! They surely are hungry!
Inna heading towards the unknown.
More photos and stories available again! This time from the ancient city of Athens. Go here to find out more.
The economic crisis has left its mark in Greece.
You might have noticed already some days ago that I added a trip report for our trip to Malta. The pictures were there but now there's a short story to support the photos as well. You can check it out here.
A man taking care of his traditional Maltese fishing boat.
This fellow approached us in Pobitite Kamani
We just came back from a kind of road trip in Bulgaria. We wanted to go to hike or mountain bike in Romania but unfortunately the weather didn't look too promising this weekend. Luckily Bulgaria isn't that far away and the weather there wasn't as bad as here in Romania.
We ended up driving way too much in two days for my taste, didn't get to see the Pelicans we wanted to see in Persina Nature Park and managed to have our photo taken by a traffic camera. A good set of failures for one weekend one might say, but at least we got to see the humongous Devetashka cave, Pobitite Kamani stones near Varna and the ancient city of Nessebar by the Black Sea. I also think that the Bulgarian police won't find me in Romania ;).
This has absolutely nothing to do with travelling but I'll mention it here anyway: I just set up a Twitch stream for streaming my Quakeworld games. You can check it out here. I'll try to stream as often as I play, but it might be a bit difficult at times because we like to speak in Finnish with a friend of mine, which might not be so interesting for most viewers.
My Internet connection hasn't been working very well the last couple of days so this website hasn't been available all the time either. I hope things are in order now, but if the site isn't accessible you at least know the reason :L.
I wrote a short trip report about our visit to the mysterious Buzludzha, the Bulgarian communist headquarter. This place is a real gem!
Can you still recognize them?
Not exactly breaking news as this trip took place already last autumn. Better late than never I guess!
My mother was visiting us in Romania and we drove together to Moldova to visit Inna's parents together. Moldova wasn't at its best in late autumn I think but it was nice to meet Inna's parents anyway.
The famous monastery of Orhei
I'm on a roll here! Now the news items are more like blog posts and one can open them up by clicking the title (a new feature as well) / date of the news item. The whole news item isn't necessarily shown on the front page to keep things neatly organized. You can also leave comments to any specific news item by opening it.
Let me know what you think!
I had a huge coding marathon today and thanks to that I can now attach images to news posts o/. It's also a lot faster to add photos to any kind of trip report so perhaps I'll create a photo book or two in the nearest future!
There seems to be a problem with the photo book pages and Firefox. Apparently Firefox doesn't fancy big image files very much and fails to load them seemingly randomly. Things appear to work just fine in Chrome and Opera. If you use Firefox and the background image fails to load, a simple page reload (pressing F5) should fix things. This is apparently a bug in Firefox and I couldn't come up with any hack to make it work.
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Let's hope the possibility for editing comments will make people comment more as they don't have to be afraid of mistakes anymore :).
Edited by Milton - 11.06.2011 12:25
Edited by Milton - 10.01.2013 21:49