The most beautiful Gypsy girl (not in any of the photos in this post) in the Roma community in one of "our" villages got engaged today. She is seventeen. The Roma women put on their best dresses and the whole thing was a huge deal and definitely an event that deserves a separate post later.


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This is not a family with two kids. The kid on the right is a Roma (Gypsy) kid who approached this woman because she was having a pretzel and she gave it away to the kid. The woman's own kid is hanging off her husband's back (you can see the feet dangling).


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Six copper ones on the smallest church of Moldova's largest monastery:


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In Moldova


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Moldova's and Romania's Roma (Gypsy) villages are home to some of the most hideous architecture I have ever seen. We are going to a Roma wedding in a main Roma town in Moldova soon and I hope to do a detailed report on the famous architecture of the Gypsy Hill ( Read more... )

The Roma boys in Transylvania are easily recognisable by their hats, they always have them on. And you cannot miss a Gypsy girl, their dresses and headscarves are very colourful, often to the point of trippy.

In Sibiu, Romania


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I am going back home to London for two days tomorrow. After that I will hop over to Copenhagen for my friend's birthday party and then I am coming back to Moldova, we still have a lot of exciting work to do here ( Read more... )