For as long as i can remember i had a grudge with Parisians. Arrogant, self anointed members of a higher caste among Europeans, sole judges and definers of beauty, connoisseurs of all good things. Why …

Before the madness began with the season holidays and other serious events we went to Morocco to visit a friend and travel a bit around.
I will not talk so much, i will just let the pictures do the talking and give you a brief note on the places i have seen.

A special moment by Maria Raducanu!
Live Recording, March 2009, Corsica, by Paul Rognoni
Qvartet: Maria Raducanu (vocal, Romania), Krister Jonsson (guitar, Sweden), Derek Shirley (double-bass, Canada), Michael Griener (drums, Germany)

I bet everyone providing some sort of service these days, hears in the first meeting or email the “How much will it cost me?” question,  a lot more often than, say, 2 years ago.
Clients prefer …

Romanian born, Florin Niculescu is one of the worlds best violonist. Gypsies  have long been known for their musical talent and this guy, to me, is one of the best i have ever seen. I …

As the blog title says, today i did a bit of wandering. 2 hours to be exact. Alone, with a camera, with no particular objective. Today Austrians were celebrating again. It was a free from …

This post was originally written in Romanian and then translated in English.
As i was telling you last week, Labour’s Day found me in Graz, Steiermark’s (Styria’s) capital city.
As soon as we entered Steiermark region by …

As spring arrives, Vienna changes entirely. Flowers take over the town from street intersections, to parks, to buildings’ balconies and windows. It feels as a colour explosion after a most grey and long winter. It …

Ieri seara ma intrebam in tramvai de ce a devenit absolut inaceptabil sa interactionam in mijloace de transport in comun. Pe strada oamenii isi zambesc, se saluta cateodata, se uita in jur la pomii care …

Meaning
Usually translated from the Latin as ‘I think, therefore I am’.
Origin
Possibly the best known of all philososophical quotations; this is from the French philosopher René Descartes in his Discourse on Method (1637), where he attempted …