I've come all the way up but I wouldn't want you to think I've reached heaven. Not even at the top of the mountain, as most loyal readers of travel blogs in love with mountain travel would expect. I'm

The advantage of being young, even very young... more than young. As is my only granddaughter, Ilinca. She is just over three years old and has much, much to discover in this world. The First Journey By

This winter now looks like an unfinished autumn. This is nothing new, it has been happening for years and it proves that climate change is as real as it gets if I can even notice it in my short time in

Because I live in the city the alternatives for walking are not many. In the neighborhood where I live, around the house, in the nearest park, in my favorite park or in the city center, on my favorite

Any outing to the city center where I live always turns into downtown shopping, if I'm accompanied by my wife... and I'm almost always accompanied by my wife. The city is called Bucharest, it is the capital

Another Sunday that passed... I was going to say very nice for this fall, but it wasn't to be. It was just a normal autumn Sunday, even though we have already entered a winter month. Childhood nostalgia,

I have to confess the attraction I have for water, and I don't mean drinking water, where I am always in a backlog because I am almost never thirsty. I'm lucky with the recent TV campaigns urging people

The beautiful autumn has turned into the real autumn! That mix of summer and autumn, with clear skies and sunshine, mild temperatures... that is, the most pleasant part of the four-season year, is over.

If we don't go to the fish then the fish come to us! That's what my fellow citizens in Bucharest might say. I had a great surprise to discover a fish market right in the city center, near University Square.

I say thank you and I'm happy with what nature offers me now. This year we had many surprises, most of them unpleasant. A few, however, were extremely pleasant. Among them is this absolutely gorgeous autumn.

Sunday is a different day, even now when it doesn't matter to me what the days of the week are called. It should be the same for my wife, but it isn't. For her every Sunday is special and it manifests