Download or read book Never Mind the Balkans Here s Romania written by Mike Ormsby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 57 bittersweet stories offering a unique glimpse of this irresistible and enthralling country, where locals say, "Ca la noi, la nimeni. There's nobody quite like us." Ormsby's colourful characters will entertain, educate and enrage. It usually depends on who is reading. Close your guide book, meet the people.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Romania Travel Guide eBook written by Rough Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Romania guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground. And this Romania travel guidebook is printed on paper from responsible sources, and verified to meet the FSC’s strict environmental and social standards. This Romania guidebook covers: Bucharest, Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania and the Danube Delta. Inside this Romania travel book, you’ll find: A wide range of sights – Rough Guides experts have hand-picked places for travellers with different needs and desires: off-the-beaten-track adventures, family activities or chilled-out breaks Itinerary examples – created for different time frames or types of trip Practical information – how to get to Romania, all about public transport, food and drink, shopping, travelling with children, sports and outdoor activities, tips for travellers with disabilities and more Author picks and things not to miss in Romania – bear- and wolf-tracking, Merry Cemetery, Wooden Churches of Maramureş, Timișoara, Peleş Castle, Black Sea, Bucharest, Constantin Brâncuși, Danube Delta, fortified churches Insider recommendations – tips on how to beat the crowds, save time and money, and find the best local spots When to go to Romania – high season, low season, climate information and festivals Where to go – a clear introduction to Romania with key places and a handy overview Extensive coverage of regions, places and experiences – regional highlights, sights and places for different types of travellers, with experiences matching different needs Places to eat, drink and stay – hand-picked restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels Practical info at each site – hours of operation, websites, transit tips, charges Colour-coded mapping – with keys and legends listing sites categorised as highlights, eating, accommodation, shopping, drinking and nightlife Background information for connoisseurs – history, culture, art, architecture, film, books, religion, diversity Essential Romanian dictionary and glossary of local terms Fully updated post-COVID-19 The guide provides a comprehensive and rich selection of places to see and things to do in Romania, as well as great planning tools. It’s the perfect companion, both ahead of your trip and on the ground.
Download or read book Palincashire written by Mike Ormsby and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Never Mind the Vampires Here s Transylvania written by Mike Ormsby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years of living in cities around the world, British writer Mike Ormsby settles in a tiny village in Romania's fabled Transylvania, where the air is clean, the scenery spectacular, and solitude a balm for the soul. But Mike and his wife Angela discover that their learning curve is as steep as a Carpathian slope. Following his critically acclaimed 2008 debut 'Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania', Mike returns with his inimitable wit and sense of wonder. Join him in Transylvania. And never mind the vampires."Gives an absolutely spot-on sense of rural life in a changing Transylvania, with cutting insights and wry humour." Tim Burford, Author, The Rough Guide to Romania"Poignant, immediate, always original. Ormsby is the perfect guide." Robin Ashenden, Central and Eastern European London Review"The modern world is turning rural Romania upside down and inside out. Mike Ormsby captures well the agony and ecstasy of this transition." William Blacker, Author, 'Along The Enchanted Way' "An excellent blend of dialogue, wit, and irony." Dr Gabriela Colipca-Ciobanu, Associate Professor, Dunarea de Jos University"Sublime." Craig Turp, Editor, Bucharest in Your Pocket
Download or read book Loving an Alien written by Angela Nicoara and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fancy a ride on the love train? Here's a book for your trip! 'Loving an Alien' is a riveting collection of intimate interviews with brave women who crossed the cultural divide and loved to tell the tale. Vive la difference! Here's how it all started... In 1995, when young Romanian journalist Angela Nicoara applied to the BBC School in Bucharest, it changed her life in ways she could never have imagined. Raised in the closed society of communist Romania and stung by a recent divorce, she doubted her chances for a better future. But then she met some British guy, in a gloomy corridor, and everything changed. "There was a power cut at BBC School. It was so dark I could hardly see him. We chatted for a few minutes, sharing a joke about the excellent conditions, and I had a feeling I'd never experienced before, as if I'd known him all my life. Why?" Turns out, Cupid had just fired a couple of arrows that landed bang on target. Angela and her Brit spent the next twenty years traveling and working around the world - with a brief stop in Las Vegas to get married - and are now settled in a tiny village in the mountains of Transylvania, with bears for neighbors. And that's where Angela got the idea for 'Loving an Alien'... "One winter's night, by our log fire, I started thinking about my girlfriends around the world, many of whom had married a foreigner. Their lives were so similar, and yet so different to my own. Hmm, why not share our experiences? What if I go back to how it all started for me? Put my journalist hat on and interview them? Ask about life on Planet Love - what might they say?" If you're into global travel, romance, life lessons, the do's and don'ts of an intimate relationship, how to manage your in-laws, how to finesse your outlaws, how to raise rootless, bi-lingual, 'third culture' kids, then snuggle up with 'Loving an Alien'. In a remarkably candid series of Q&A's with twenty-seven women of different nationalities, Angela reveals what makes a mixed marriage tick ... and how to keep the love clock running. "My college friends thought I was stupid, crazy, and throwing away a bright future." Jennifer "Some girls think marrying an expat is the road to riches, but that's not true." Sumi "I never thought I'd be with an African, someone so different, from this tiny village." Sophie "It wasn't like I came to Sri Lanka to marry a Sri Lankan. It just happened." Jessica "Marrying into a different culture means you are not trapped by your own, which is how I felt." Wang Angela Nicoara doesn't just spill the beans, she gets the recipe. It's not memoir. It's not fiction. It's love, visas and all. Long-distance. Long term. Join Angela on a journey to the heart of it!"
Download or read book Child Witch Kinshasa written by Mike Ormsby and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you liked The Poisonwood Bible, then Child Witch Kinshasa is for you." (Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg)Child Witch Kinshasa is an epic tale of travel, love and loss, set in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and England. This colorful tragicomedy unfolds through the eyes of Dudu - a young Congolese boy, Frank - a British journalist, and his wife Ruth - a mother of two, with a full-time job in London. Their lives entwine, and cultures clash, after chance encounters that reverberate from Kinshasa to Kingston-upon-Thames.The story begins when an evangelical pastor visits Dudu's remote village and accuses him of being a 'child witch' with mysterious and dangerous powers. Dudu flees his village to stay with relatives and avoid divine retribution, but his plan goes wrong and he finds himself alone and homeless. To survive, he teams up with Kilanda, a former child soldier, whose reckless sense of adventure spins them - Huck Finn style - across the vast country by road, rail, and river.Meanwhile, British journalist Frank is travelling around DR Congo, training local reporters in a western-funded project. It's a tough job, especially as his efforts are undermined by propaganda from government and rebels locked in civil war. Eventually, Frank wonders whether he can actually do any good in the DRC.The answer comes when he helps to rescue two boys from a beating in Kinshasa. Frank offers to re-home the youngest - Dudu - but this savvy street kid has learned the hard way not to trust adults, especially foreigners. Just as Frank is about to give up and go home to England, his wife Ruth has an irresistible idea that changes everything, for everybody. The story continues in Child Witch London.
Download or read book Walking the Woods and the Water written by Nick Hunt and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Hunt pays homage to Patrick Leigh Fermor by walking the same route across Europe in this "glorious book."
Download or read book Along the Enchanted Way written by William Blacker and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's online book club The Reading Room by HRH The Prince of Wales When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In spring as the pear trees blossomed he ploughed with horses, in summer he scythed the hay meadows and in the freezing winters gathered wood by sleigh from the forest. From sheepfolds harried by wolves, to courting expeditions in the snow, he experienced the traditional way of life to the full, and became accepted into a community who treated him as one of their own. But Blacker was also intrigued by the Gypsies, those dark, foot-loose strangers of spell-binding allure who he saw passing through the village. Locals warned him to stay clear but he fell in love and there followed a bitter struggle. Change is now coming to rural Romania, and William Blacker's adventures will soon be part of its history. From his early carefree days tramping the hills of Transylvania, to the book's poignant ending, Along the Enchanted Way transports us back to a magical country world most of us thought had vanished long ago.
Download or read book Times New Romanian written by Nigel Shakespear and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Times New Romanian provides a picture of Romania today through the individual first-person narratives of people who chose to go and make a life in this country.
Download or read book Travels in Transylvania written by Lucy Abel-Smith and published by Blue Guides Limited of London. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second updated and expanded edition of this well-loved visitor's handbook.
Download or read book The Romanian written by Bruce Benderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Prix de Flore—one of France's most distinguished literary prizes—a wildly romantic, true-life love story “History follows a trail of sputtering desire, often calling upon the delusions of lovers to generate the sparks. If it weren’t for us, the world would suffer from a dismal lack of stories," writes Bruce Benderson in this brutally candid memoir. “What astonishes and intrigues is Benderson’s way of recounting, in the sweetest possible voice, things that are considered shocking,” wrote Le Monde. What’s so shocking? It’s not just Benderson’s job translating Céline Dion’s saccharine autobiography, which he admits is driving him mad; but his unrequited love for an impoverished Romanian in “cheap club-kid platforms with dollar signs in his squinting eyes,” whom he meets while on a journalism assignment in Eastern Europe. Rather than retreat, Benderson absorbs everything he can about Romanian culture and discovers an uncanny similarity between his own obsession for the Romanian (named Romulus) and the disastrous love affair of King Carol II, the last king of Romania (1893-1953). Throughout, Benderson—“absolutely free of bitterness, nastiness, or any desire to protect himself,” wrote Le Monde—is sustained by little white codeine pills, a poetic self-awareness, a sense of humor, and an unwavering belief in the perfect romance, even as wild dogs chase him down Romanian streets.
Download or read book Fantastic tales written by Mircea Eliade and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Were wolf and Vampire in Romania written by Harry A. Senn and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
