Most of these were taken with my Fuji Finepix set on sports mode and shot from the window of the car as we zoomed past – some half decent shots nonetheless š
I couldn’t stop to take photographs – except in the mountain gorge – because we were on such a tight schedule – six cities and a thousand kilometres in three days with a couple of hours or so work to do in each place checking piles of seized cigarettes in Romanian Customs warehouses to see which were counterfeit and which real. (If anyone would like to know why, I can tell you – it’s not Classified!)
All of these shots were taken in Dracula country – Transylvania. It’s quite interesting up there, most signs are written in Hungarian as well as Romanian because of the number of ethnic Hungarians there – bit naughty, really. Also, there are quite a number of families with girls’ names as surnames – Amaria, (a – Maria, of Maria,) Aelena etc. During WW1, the Romanian Army was fairly heavily roughed up by the Germans and they took to the Transylvanian Carpathians as their final redoubt. Soldiers being soldiers, and girls being girls, there were a lot of babies with no known father, so, Amaria…
Boadicea's Chariot 
Just the place for sarky’s rejects!
Looks beautiful.
Yes, please explain, Bravo. How do you tell the difference?
Fascinating, did you know that The Rocky Horror Picture Show was initially banned down here by our lot?
It’s just a jump to the left ………… š
I’m impressed – and not just by how well your camera works! It looks beautiful.
Interesting that surnames are still based on parents’ first names. And, yes, I’d like to know how and why with the cigarettes!
“…most signs are written in Hungarian as well as Romanian because of the number of ethnic Hungarians there ā bit naughty, really.” Why’s it naughty?
These are fabulous Bravo, you and your camera have worked wonders here, I love them. Nice story too.
Janus, it’s a bit naughty because Romanian is the language of Romania, not Hungarian. Divisive and all that – just like all the other multicultural crap.
Boa, because they derived from the time in WW1 when there were lots of soldiers who came and went, and it was wartime, and there was no television… They’re now honourable surnames š