Aman Museum - an art museum.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnrP1HZBFoQ/
Aman Museum - an art museum.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnrP1HZBFoQ/
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Triumphal Arch
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Some more pictures!
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A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Here's an interesting video explaining the geopolitics of Romania, particularly on the historical side and the economic development problems.
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A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Do you work for the Romanian tourism board? You should.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
I do my best to promote Romania to be fair, because I love my country and it has a lot of things to offer - and I tend to steer away from working in the public sphere. A very complicated thing to work with / for the government.
Thank you for the appreciation Seamus.
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A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
1st of December again so Happy Birthday Romania!
1st of December Military parade, as is tradition.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
When the Irishman was released, the local Odeon theatre turned it a bit... theatrical.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Some splendid shots of Bucharest.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
I'll take this time and show you some historical bits, particularly about Romania's role in World War I. Courtesy of The Great War channel.
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A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Thank you everyone for 9 years of this thread, more than 102.000 views, I am very grateful for that.
Visit Romania soon!
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
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Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
If you want to eat some good stuff, come on over once this whole craziness is over!
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Romanian orphan stories.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...o-love/612253/
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
I've just seen this @Montmorency - unfortunately yes, this is a problem, and a significant one which I did wish the government did not turn the eye away from.
I've been to multiple orphanages, working with different charities, and while some of them are in good shape (even public ones), some of them are in a deplorable state. Worst part of it all is not necessarily the building or the housing, or the equipment even - plenty of people are willing to donate - but the human resource part. Working as a caregiver is a strenous, difficult job and with the lack of funding it makes up for a significant issue of integrating those who have been abandoned.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
A nice, short summary of the history of Romania dating back to pretty much 8000 years ago.
There are some minor issues with it - the Dacian / Thracian weapon is called a falx (not a flax) and also Vlad the Impaler ruled 3 different times from 1431 to 1477.
Vlad the Impaler - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler
Falx - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falx
Rhomphaia (cousin of the falx) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhomphaia
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A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
An absolutely gorgeous video made by HRH Prince Charles about his love for Romania.
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A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Gorgeous, gorgeous country you have there, edyz! That video was amazing to watch.
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Thank you very much Gregoshi, I'm really glad Prince Charles took the time to make it as such.
Pre-pandemic, he used to visit every single year. He owns a house in Viscri.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscri_fortified_church
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
I really want to visit Romania someday. An interesting country with an interesting culture.
I hope soon all borders will be open
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"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Thank you very much and welcome to the Org!
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A little rave once we get back to normal?
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
It's been about 10 years since I started this thread, and so far it has garnered close to 120.000 views. Together with the 210.000 or so from Total War Center, getting over 300.000 views on 2 threads to visit Romania... well, I do hope that I managed to get people to come and visit Romania!
Thank you all for viewing & commenting, I hope you visit Romania soon.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
A beautiful video outlined by the famous Kings & Generals YouTube channel about the Battle of Calugareni in 1595, an important moment in Romanian history & medieval history as well.
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Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
This is a damn shame:
There’s one obvious, notable beneficiary of this situation: Ikea. The company is now the largest individual consumer of wood in the world, its appetite growing by two million trees a year. According to some estimates, it sources up to 10 percent of its wood from the relatively small country of Romania, and has long enjoyed relationships with mills and manufacturers in the region. In 2015, it began buying up forestland in bulk; within months it became, and remains, Romania’s largest private landowner.
The global market’s edacity for timber, perhaps predictably, has gone far beyond the legal limits set up by an already permissive state. According to a 2018 report, initially suppressed by the Romanian government and leaked later that year, the country saw 38.6 million cubic meters of wood exit its forests annually during the preceding four-year period; the government had licensed just 18.5 million cubic meters. In other words, without even accounting for possible violations based on method of extraction, more than half of the country’s timber is illegally harvested. Even legal logging, which on private and public land alike must be preceded by a forest management plan that is approved by the government, can be rife with corruption and abuse. Since roughly the date of Romania’s accession to the EU, between half and two-thirds of the country’s virgin forest has been lost.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Unfortunately, that is the reality and also a very delicate political topic / situation right now.
There has been a lot of backlash and criticism because of illegal logging in Romania and it's still closely monitored, however it's still ongoing. Progress has been made, particularly in protection and reforesting (I participated myself in reforesting some cleared areas) but still a long way to go.
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This year I was so busy that I didn't booked a vacation so I'll travel through Romania, just pop into my car and drive whenever I feel. Any tips for less known places (preferably Moldova and East part of Transylvania).
As a side note, I am turning 20 yrs old on these forums :)
Tough Times Don't Last. Tough People Do. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. [Mark Twain]
Plenty of places to see - it depends on what you're interested in. One of the newer places to go to is Colibita Lake, which is spectacular. Reminds you a bit of lakes in the Alps.
I also suggest Coltesti Fortress, the Saxon villages (Biertan for example), Bethlen-Haller castle (now a vineyard), Turda salt mine.
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