FanFest 2006 - Part one

FanFest was the only green romanian festival of the year. You probably know the continuous fights between Gabriel Resources that wants to take over Rosia Montana and transform it into a prosperous area with a mine proposal that will actually destruct five mountains, 10 churces, 12 cemeteries and 958 farms, and some local authorities, environmental organisations and lots of other people that want to stop this, as they say, illegal action. Rosia Montana's locals have been offered money to leave the place and set somewhere else. Nowadays, you may see some once beautiful transilvanian houses, left abandoned.


That's the main reason for the "FanFest. Save Rosia Montana" festival. Set somewhere in the mountains, on a big plateau, it may have the most beautiful sights for rock concerts. It is also not so easy to get there.


Next photo shows you the FanFest location; (you may see the tents and stage in the left of the enlarged photo).






Coming next: my story of a 2 days rock-in-the-woods adventure.

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Lazzzy days

Aaah...those lazy afternoons when sitting in a bar near the beach, listening to bossa nova, having a nice hungarian meal (gulas, mmm) followed by a conversation as lazy as could be until slowly falling asleep on a bench, could never compete with anything else when it comes to my idea of a nice summer. Anyhow, next stop: the mountaaains!

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Out in the woods - Hagieni

Exploring the unknown: Hagieni Natural Reservation. Not to say the joy to leave our lazy saturday afternoon drink in Vama Veche and set for a small adventure not far from there. We tried to eat whatever non-poisonous fruit we found, went looking for tortoises (and found two!), bewared of snakes, crossed a pond full of reed and went "running up the hills" until sunset.

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