From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 11:13:29 +0000 (+0300) Subject: drafts: Add kavarna full draft X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d77d8b79ce8fa4ef119b7fce6a76c9c9ad6db6ad;p=thetarpit.git drafts: Add kavarna full draft --- diff --git a/drafts/000-kavarna.markdown b/drafts/000-kavarna.markdown index c6e882e..8498a67 100644 --- a/drafts/000-kavarna.markdown +++ b/drafts/000-kavarna.markdown @@ -6,24 +6,53 @@ author: Lucian Mogoșanu tags: in-the-flesh --- +Note to the reader: we are not going to talk about Варна, nor +(technically speaking) about Каварна. In fact, we're not gonna talk +about Варна at all, we're gonna keep her out of it! + +So in short, this September began with a trip to the Bulgarian seaside, +where I plunged into the salty waters belonging to ye olde +[Black Sea][mangalia] and let myself taken away by the waves for a while +there. One living in southern Romania usually chooses Bulgaria for such +trips because, for one, the golden sands or whatever are close enough to +the Bukreșian shithole; and for the other, because the Bulgarian +littoral is much [cheaper][logz-1910106] than the Romanian one, despite +the difficulty in finding sand to lie on, most of Bulgaria's sea opening +consisting of tall rocky cliffs. + +Thus most of this post will consist of sea shots, like this one: + +or this one: + +or these other ones: + - - + + +Well, there's also a castle tower in this last one, so as to not bore +the reader. Also to keep the reader scrolling -- I heard that's the new +cool business nowadays bringing tons of those benjies in the purse, +keeping folks swipin' on their smartpnojes -- I present to you some sky +shots, now also with birds! + + + @@ -33,23 +62,51 @@ class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/09/cadrilater-08-thumb.png"> +Above: a nighttime shot of the sea *and* the sky, because I can. Below: +a map of Dobrogea, including its southern part -- known among +Romanian-speaking folks as the Cadrilater, nowadays part of northern +Bulgaria -- lying on the ceiling of a restaurant in Balchik. The map's +likely pre-1900, judging by the script denoting Bucharest and other +towns; then there's other weirds, such as a "Giurgiz" at the north of +Bucharest; and a "Csernavoda" at the south of Russe[^1]; and then +[Mangalia][mangalia], Murfatlar, Cobadin and Tuzla all seem to be +correctly depicted; heck, even that [old one][citadel] is on the map, +yet nobody seemed to give a fuck about Constanța at the time? Well! + +I was joking back on the road to Kavarna that I'ma retake the Cadrilater +back, but joke or no joke, it seems that everyone in Balchik already +speaks Romanian -- owing, no doubt, to the main attraction there, the +royal castle belonging to Ferdinand and his Maria. As far as I can tell, +the woman had taste: just look at that tower in the photo above, and, +say: + - + +Above: a tortoise, after being disturbed by yours truly, had the good +manners (or perhaps it was only the curiosity?) to take its head out and +pose for a photo. Below: an old man with a gray hair in the shape of a(n +even older) lion, opens its mossy mouth and, similarly, poses. + - + + +The statuette above is just amazed of something. Below, I'm going to +further bore you with a set of flower shots. What would be a Tarpitian +photopost without a set of flower shots? It wouldn't be a *proper* +Tarpitian photopost, I tells ya. @@ -57,26 +114,72 @@ class="thumb" src="/uploads/2019/09/cadrilater-16-thumb.png"> - + + +... in which I discover that my stock camera lens can take decent macro +shots if properly whipped. Below, a garden: - - +Above: a plaque with some dude's name on it. Y'know, it occurs to me +from the mediocre hotel service that the main difference between +Bulgarians and Romanians are that the former are at least trying to be +helpful, while the latter are just fucked in the hea... wait, haven't we +heard [that][klausenburg] before? Numerous times, I've stopped counting. + +Anyway, no other difference between the two people other than the +language. Thus I've used this trip as yet another occasion to expose +myself to Kiril's writing, which means that by now I should at least be +able to read Stan's Russian quotes a tad faster. No one said anything +about understanding them, though. + +Below: Dobrogea, be it the Romanian or the Bulgarian one, is full of +these. + +This is where I stop and ask the dear reader to switch their attention +back to photos "-03" and "-05", y'know, "these other ones" in the beach +photosession. The beach isn't the star of our photos there, you see, +it's Cap Caliacra -- also shown in the map at "-10"; you are keeping +track of this, are you not? So here's a bunch of pieces from the other +side: + +So since we were at the cape, we went at the famous Dalboka mussel farm, +where I initially said I'd have some pork and ended up having some +decent and quite cheap mussels. Definitely worth trying, though if +you're going to go there during the colder seasons, I'm warning you that +the road to the farm turns into a steep slope at some point, so you +might want to go there with a proper car. + +We conclude this story with a very neat photo of Dalbokian shores, taken +with the girl's phone. From what I see, they manage to pack pretty good +cameras on these pnojes nowadays, yes-yes, with Sony sensors, I +expect. What's surprising is that they manage to fit decent lenses in +that small space, which... well, still no match for a DSLR *yet*, but +who knows. + + +[^1]: Which has nothing to do with the Cernavodă where they recently + built the nuclear power plants. That one's depicted on the map as + As-chioi? Anyway, there's a Chervena Voda near Ruse, but what, did + the blackwater turn red in ten decades, or what? + +[mangalia]: /posts/y05/08e-mangalia.html +[logz-1910106]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-04-27#1910106 +[citadel]: /posts/y04/068-the-story-of-the-citadel.html +[klausenburg]: /posts/y05/07d-klausenburg.html