My hometown is not very big. It is considered a city but that’s for Portuguese standards. Usually there’s not much going on there that gets the rest of the country’s, or even its own inhabitants’, attention. Except for one thing: Carnaval. I think I could barely walk when my parents started dragging me to the [...]

In a previous post, I mentioned that if you visit Romania, you should definitely reserve enough time to get out of Bucharest and visit the “real” Romania, in the country and smaller cities, towns, and villages. Romania has a long peasant and farming history – in fact, in the early to mid-1900s, it was known [...]