- Beginning of the journey in Iasi (or Jassy): Phillipe takes the train to Burdujeni (Bukovina): talk about the identity of the Romanian people (they are the most Latin of the Latin people).In the Bukovina the monasteries have nice murals.Philippe goes to a church: Orthodox mass, then picnic in the cemetery, later a great dinner of the people of the village (they like their pope).Then Philippe visits the pope who is also builder( the pope says that God teaches us the pray and the work).Later Philippe speaks with farmers who are working with their plow and a horse (to buy a tractor means to pay a lot of money for the loans).Then Philippe goes to a deep valley in the Muramures where there are no roads, only a railway track: Philippe travels in a van adapted to the rails, first with policemen of the border police then with foresters. Next stop Sighisoara, the home town of Vlad III of Wallachia (also known Vlad the Impaler) who inspired the story of the Count Dracula.In the train Philippe meets a young woman who tells him that they have a Bucarest an invasion of mosquitoes( another story of blood).Then a conversation about the past (communism) and the present of Romania.In Bucarest Philippe visits with Romulus, a journalist the People's Palace build by Nicolas Ceausescu.Finally Philippe takes the train to Babadag in the Delta of the Danube and goes fishing with a young Romanian man.—zutterjp48
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