I get to go home tomorrow! It is only for a about a fortnight or so-and then I will be right back here in Bucharest.
I got up early-went to breakfast-then came back and went back to bed. Somehow I think I should not have bothered to get up. But I was hungry.
I then realized that I needed to do some shopping-when the S.O. was over here last year, she really liked the Romanian wines. So I bought three bottles and am now trying to figure out how to pack them so they don’t break. My choices? Domeniul Coronai Pinot Noir-2009 and two different versions of Feteasca Neagra one from a winery called Halewood and the other is Beciul Domnesc. One is 2006 and one is 2009.
I got on the subway-and went to Parcul Tartunuili which is in southern Bucharest. Its a big park-as big as its more famous sister park Herestrau.
The thing about Romanian parks is that they were once great it would appear-but they have suffered through years of neglect. The park benches are warped and in disrepair. They look uncomfortable. The same is true of the grass. It needs cutting but it is not. There is a reason for that-Romania is in the middle of a massive austerity program, the kind our Galtian overlords want to impose on us. It has been painful on the Romanian people. The Romanian officers I am working with-are very underpaid for the work they do.
And the parks, to me, kind of highlight the problems with this. They clearly were once great and beautiful. But they have been allowed to atrophy. And its sad in a many ways.