Finally...an Australian take on Moldova...
Last year I married a Moldovan.
After 18 months living in the capital Chisinau, I can offer some Australian reflections on this place...and new perspectives on the world.
In a nutshell, Moldova is an amazing place...full of contrasts: poverty, BMWs, corruption, beauty, vineyards, sovietic apartment blocks, great art, kitch, hospitality, rudeness, Russian-speakers, Romanian speakers, mosquitos in summer, frost bite in winter, stray dogs, stray supermodels...
It was Nicholas Thorpe, of Digerati fame, who first pushed me into this... and I resisted, for many many months. But finally I give in.
Moldova? Is it real? Ahhh...yes, really. The Republic of Moldova is a small country of 3-4 million good folk situated between Romania and Ukraine...(Eastern Europe, that is). On a map, it's to the right of those familiar names like France, Germany and England.
Did I mention that it's an amazing place? Well it is. Blackest soil I've ever seen. And that's not all... But that's all I'll say for now. I'm off on a roadtrip to Switzerland and Sweden with my wife, Cristina, and her parents and sister... Madness!
Back in September...
See ya!
After 18 months living in the capital Chisinau, I can offer some Australian reflections on this place...and new perspectives on the world.
In a nutshell, Moldova is an amazing place...full of contrasts: poverty, BMWs, corruption, beauty, vineyards, sovietic apartment blocks, great art, kitch, hospitality, rudeness, Russian-speakers, Romanian speakers, mosquitos in summer, frost bite in winter, stray dogs, stray supermodels...
It was Nicholas Thorpe, of Digerati fame, who first pushed me into this... and I resisted, for many many months. But finally I give in.
Moldova? Is it real? Ahhh...yes, really. The Republic of Moldova is a small country of 3-4 million good folk situated between Romania and Ukraine...(Eastern Europe, that is). On a map, it's to the right of those familiar names like France, Germany and England.
Did I mention that it's an amazing place? Well it is. Blackest soil I've ever seen. And that's not all... But that's all I'll say for now. I'm off on a roadtrip to Switzerland and Sweden with my wife, Cristina, and her parents and sister... Madness!
Back in September...
See ya!
posted by Erik at 1:01 PM
1 Comments:
Way to go, Erik. Welcome to the world of Blogging. Hope to see you write some more and keep the world enthralled with your Aussie point of view in Black-soiled Moldova. I look forward to it. Keep writing.
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