From cdccdd460443865df8ccf4189f59d620ef3e4437 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 13:23:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add maramures draft so far --- drafts/000-maramures.markdown | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 171 insertions(+) diff --git a/drafts/000-maramures.markdown b/drafts/000-maramures.markdown index 8ebeb64..2242f92 100644 --- a/drafts/000-maramures.markdown +++ b/drafts/000-maramures.markdown @@ -6,5 +6,176 @@ author: Lucian Mogoșanu tags: in-the-flesh --- +

**Motto**: +La casa cu patru fete mor gainile de sete +si fantana-i [supt parete][maramu].

+ +So [as I was saying][btcbase-1922407], a month ago this time I was +travellin' through that old country with tall, "falnici" mountains +hosting thick, tall, "falnice" woods of beech, fir, oak and other +beautiful, majestic trees, whom the locals use to build their wooden +houses in gardens wide as the eye can see, bound by wooden fences with +great finely-decorated wooden gates, neighbouring small yet so very +lovely wooden churches and so on and so forth. Anyway, I suck at this +so I'll let the photos speak in my stead. + +Unfortunately for the reader, all my photos of wooden decorations also +suck, so none shall be posted here, but owing probably to the fact +that I spent so much time doing engineering and the likes, I've got +train photos: + + + + + + +I gave those bitches some [iuțeală maximă][maximum-quickness]. Mind +you, those trains are used to transport logs and tourists (so, pretty +much the same thing), hence the slowness. And when did everyone get +the fuck in such a hurry all of a sudden? And speaking of hurries and +modern technology, here's a blast from the '90s: + + + +I found this little gem -- with 9999 variations of five games, yes? +and running on AAA batteries for a week, not like today's shitphone +gaming implements -- at a "chinezării" store over in Upper +Wischau. Unfortunately there's not much else to see in that sad little +town[pre-urban][btcbase-1918305] shithole. Let's see: + + + +Above: the redundantly-named Wasser water. Below: SC Tacniram SRL +doesn't seem to have been faring very well in the last few +years. Aside from their sad public record, they were closed and they +had one (one!) ad for an apartment sale -- I've no idea who buys real +estate there these days, so I'll leave it at that. + + + + + +Above: a view of the town from a quiet, lonely yet so sweet vantage +point on the outskirts. Notice: the churches, the school, the river, a +bunch of houses and that's about where this Vișeu ends; I don't expect +the other one's much different either, nor am I inclined to find +out. Otherwise the town's main attraction is the so-called "mocăniță" +train ride, with the vehicle at the beginning of this post -- and that +mainly due to that whole picturesque atmosphere oozing out of +it. There is nothing else to see there: you'd expect that at the end +of that ride there'd be local girls cooking traditional local food, +but it's just the usual Romanian kitschfest with shitbeer and the +Romanian kafta known as "mici". Thanks but no thanks, I can have the +very same anywhere in this country, in fact I just had some this +weekend in the heart of Ferentari, without having to [queue][queue] +with all the unwashed orcs. + +Anyway, back to the outskirts of Vișeu de Sus, rural settings have +this great advantage of readily available apple factories in other +people's gardens: + + + +When's the last time you just grabbed an apple from a tree and ate it? +How often do you do that? I don't, so I guess the people on the +outskirts of Oberwischau are literally laughing their asses at this +overly pompous sonofabitch who's commenting on this and that like he +owns the place. + +Anyways, near the garden where that apple tree lives there's a +cemetery -- with German, Hungarian, Polish and +I-don't-know-from-where-sounding names, 'cuz Maramureș is a country of +its own, what -- and near the cemetery there's a green pasture: + + + +When's the last time you just sat your ass on a green pasture? Well we +didn't because there was an angry dog nearby coming to greet us and +let us know we're sitting on its property. + +Below, a photostudy done with a fixed 50mm lens. The lens, you see, is +entirely unfit for this kind of photography, but what can I do? It's +the one I had on me at the moment, so I squeezed the most out of +it. I'm going to let the reader decide which of the photos is the +best. + + + + + + + + + +Above: the Horses' Waterfall and canyon near Borșa. Below: views from +the same canyon and mountain. As the saying goes: frumoasă țară, păcat +că-i locuită, i.e. beautiful country, too bad it's inhabited. + + + + + + + + + +Above: choo-choo! along the Vaser goes the cocăniță. Below, we head +straight to the Marmatian Sziget, where some people made a museum, the +Memorial of the Victims of Communism etcaetera TODO troll. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +[maramu]: http://trilema.com/2014/maramu/ +[btcbase-1922407]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-07-14#1922407 +[maximum-quickness]: /posts/y05/08d-sinaia.html#selection-245.34-249.16 +[btcbase-1918305]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-16#1918305 +[queue]: http://trilema.com/2019/oslo-that-unredeemably-sad-shithole/#footnote_2_84244 -- 1.7.10.4