In what’s being hailed as a first, a man yesterday drove the full length of Romania’s majestic Transfagarasan pass and did not stop to take a single photo. Despite a massive search earlier today, not one photograph of the man’s drive over the Transfagarasan could be found on the internet.
Police are treating the case as suspicious.
I cycled over the Transagarasan twice this year (I had a job in Avrig and went to/from there by bike). I wrote an article about the trip (and did a slideshow on youtube) and if you want to know how it was for me you should click here: http://www.productive.ro/blog/doing-the-transfag.html
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It’s incredible what Ceausescu could build! If Ceausescu was the President of the United States who knows what wonders the world could have achieved…
Look, it’s been 20 years since Ceausescu fell and still the progress made by the country is not even 10% of what Ceausescu made in his 20 years of presidency.
So what’s the use of being in the EU? They took down Ceausescu and gave us what? Gave us nothing, took everything almost for free and loaned us 50 billion Euro which we have to pay back with interest. What did Romania win from this affair?!
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Mick Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 10:08 am
The Transfagarasan is only impressive if you’ve never seen mountains. There are far higher mountain passes in the Alps. The Gavia, the Tonale and the Stelvio to name but three.
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Parmalat Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Romania can’t be compared with Switzerland nor France, if this country had the resources that the Swiss have maybe we would have reached their level of development but considering the given situation, Ceausescu’s administration was brilliant, he achieved a lot for the country even with limited financial resources.
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Rupert Wolfe Murray Reply:
August 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am
You got your freedom
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Parmalat Reply:
August 21st, 2009 at 9:14 am
No, actually we’re on our way to the other side of opression – the Capitalist type where corporations control everything instead of the Securitate and if you want to do something (anything) you have to follow 1000 laws and regulations because corporations impose the State to regulate things so as nobody would threaten their position.
Still opression it’s called, no difference than before…
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I drove that back in 2007:
http://bit.ly/vEyVZ
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