Showing posts with label Transylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transylvania. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2012

Transylvanian Trilogy

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There are not many books available in the English language about this part of the world – Olivia Manning’s The Balkan Trilogy is perhaps t...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

village tradition and solidarity

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Last Saturday I found myself, as an agnostic, in an initially embarrassing situation – being invited (as I thought) to lunch at a village ne...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Saxon villages and fortified churches

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A heavenly day – almost literally! She who must be obeyed needed a break from the work she had been doing on and around the house. I rec...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

medieval Brasov

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One of my daughters is visiting me (for the first time) in my Carpathian mountain house at the moment; and this has taken me into the hea...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Lessons in Transylvania

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I've just received the latest issue of The Ecologist and it contains a great article by Laura Sevier, a freelance journalist, about tra...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

tribes, traditions and transitions

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A time for superficial dipping – with another Amazon packet thudding onto the table. At the moment I’m locked into Jonathan Watt’s grim jou...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

more Transylvanian and Balkan flavour?

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The title of this blog is Carpathian Musings since I am now based here in this marvellous mountain range – in its southern sweep in Romania...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Transylvania

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Sirnea Just to give a sense of the neighbourhood. The house is modestly hiding behind the trees to the middle-right of picture (beside the...