Friday, September 24, 2004

A Romanian safari / Ik zag twee beren...

Among Brasov's most popular -informal- tourist attractions is 'I want to see a bear'. After sunset, any taxi-driver in town will bring you to one of the suburbs - as long as you mention the word 'urs'. At the edge of the city, where mankind and nature colide, the taxi will stop near a few garbage containers.There they are, two real-life bears, enjoying their dinner, apparantly not disturbed by the headlights. And this shows the problem - the bears are not afraid of humans anymore. According to my taxi-driver -information provided without extra charge- the latest victim is an Italian tourist who was stupid enough to try feed one of those 'cute' animals. Let's stay in the cab...
Total price? 100.000 Lei.

1 comment:

Menno said...

He Olwin,

It all sounds good, genuinely Eastern-European. I'm glad you're having a nice time over there, and I can completely imagine why you haven't written to all of us before. Of course you didn't!

Hope to read some more of you soon!

Menno