Joe Mabel: My travels

2001-2002, 2006

Romania

Romania 2001-2002: From November 2001 until late May 2002 (and again for a month in May 2006), I worked in Bucharest, Romania; I returned as a visitor for about ten days in December 2014. These are my letters home, slightly edited. This portion of my web site got a nice write-up in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentul Zilei (literally "The Events of the Day"), one of Romania's leading newspapers. Several Romanians have written to me to say that it is the best commentary on Bucharest by a foreigner that they have ever read, so I must have been doing something right. Enjoy!

Back in 2002 I tried to provide some useful information about visiting Bucharest, Romania. Other than museums etc., this is probably now of mainly historical interest.

1996

In 1996, I spent three months in Europe, roughly equally split among Barcelona, the rest of Spain, and Central Europe + Northern Italy. Most of the following derives from my letters home during those three months, although I have gone back and added a few stories from briefer visits since then.

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