Romania
The town of Sibiu
[Romania] I’ve crossed the Hungarian border and had entered the strangeness of Romania. I’m on a train in Transylvania, and there isn’t a person who speaks a word of English. I’m baffled, and can’t figure out where I am. Nothing makes any sense. We enter a small city, and the train just stops in industrial […]
Gypsy women
[Romania] Maybe it’s just that we do a better job of hiding our various prejudices, but I was continually uncomfortable at the ethnic stereotyping and expressions of dislike for others who were different. Maybe it was the lack of social taboos about these things in eastern Europe. And so it was a constant stream of […]