exploration makes a better world

the journey home was longer and shorter. longer than usual, shorter than expected. i took the train to munchen and from there the overnight to budapest. i could have gone straight home by train, but i reserved a plane ticket from budapest to cluj. it was ok like this, a 28 hours train ride would [...]

Dijon’s great touristic attraction for me on Sunday was the game between Romania and Hungary, at the women’s handball world cup. So I drove the 3 hours to the place, managed to get the ticket i had reserved via the internet (collection centers were all closed.. sundays.. so i got it finally from the sports [...]

This weekend I had the pleasure of Vivekananda’s visit.
He landed on Friday evening, sms-ed me that he will take the train to zurich, I wrote back saying that it will take him 5 mins, we shd meet in ~1 hr at the station, as I was caught up in work. We met after [...]

went to Strasbourg yesterday, just to check it out - it’s only 2 hours drive away. well, it was actually 3h, because of traffic and road constructions. very charming town, Christkindlmarkt, like everywhere in… Germany (Strasbourg & Alsace used to be part of Germany, the town is still bilingual), with Gluehwein (sweet hot wine with [...]

i had a day. what to do with it? it snowed earlier this week, so i thought to check out a ski resort close to “base”. there was one at ~90km which sounded vaguely known, so i went there. it was closed, though, however apparently there was one open closeby. so i ended up in [...]

Great to have Zaid visiting over the week-end! Saturday a day walk through a rainy-snowy city, with a (first time for me as well) climb on top of the cathedral and an attempt to a panorama on top of the Uetliberg, where we landed in the middle of a cloud, on stormy weather and [...]

here - check this out.
(http://romerican.com/2006/09/26/tariff-day-high-dukes/)

another shockingly refreshing surprise during the game i watched last night (on the internet). again, it was steaua bucharest, and again on the receiving end. this time, at the delivering end senegal’s gueye mansour from F.C. Politehnica 1921 Timisoara.

Lumi & Seanwere here for a long week-end.
One of those moments that make hard work worth. my apartment always enjoys these visits almost as much as i do, as it gets cleaned with the occasion. they stayed at my place and explored zurich; we met at night for dinner.. in 2 days they discovered more [...]

here’s the context: Steaua Bucharest, the best romanian team all-time, played against Universitatea Cluj, somewhere in Transylvania, a team ranked LAST, without a victory.
Steaua was leading 1-0, when this happened:
At the end “U” Cluj won 2-1.This is why some people like football.