While in Sibiu, I had the extraordinary pleasure of being shown around the place by two lovely people who knew it very well, since they had lived there themselves for many years, before emigrating to France in the 80ies. I am speaking about antar74's parents. We had a wonderful day, sunny and only a bit shadowed by my stupid cough, and I sure hope to see ( Read more... )

..Forest-Love found in the archives of TVR. Wonderfully melodramatic, and yeah, there is some Eminescu too. Quite long, in Romanian, with English subtitles. Nothing for those who get bored by documentaries, and slightly pathetic nature-animism. But for romantic environmentalists with a soft tooth for poetry, well, tear-duct fodder ;)
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It has arrived. OMG.

( the book I have been waiting for ... with all my fangirlish crazy soul...for more than a month! )

.. I happened on this italian translation for yet another fascinating Eminescu poem and am posting it here so I can look at it whenever I want and slowly work my way through the original with the help of the translation (Here you can find also a beautiful English translation..!)
Luceafăr in Romanian is the name of the morning star (the planet Venus ( Read more... )

..and so I ordered THIS BOOK

*squeeee*

..how can it not melt for somebody who looks like this..

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