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Still reigning...
... execution. Wikipedia describes impalement as - involves the body of a person being pierced with a long stake. The penetration could be through the sides, through the rectum, through the vagina, or through the mouth. This method leads to a painful death, sometimes taking days. When the impaling instrument was inserted into a lower orifice, it was necessary to secure the victim in the prone position; the stake would then be held in place ...
ROMANYA-Romania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RomaniaReg ion: Southeastern EuropaArea total: 238,391 km2Coast line: Black SeaCapital: BucharestTârgu Mures’s Great SynagogueTemplul CoralOpera building – Cluj-NapocaHunyad CastleUnurii – BucharestTypical rural houses in Mănăstireni, west of ClujForest in the CarpathiansWinter in …
Dracula on the rocks. And a tirade.
... the area. A nice shopping strip too, which may have awoken the dragon...]
Sighisoara
The birthplace of Dracula and plenty of tacky memorabilia to boot. We managed to pick the one day of the week when all the tourist attractions were closed. We wandered around and then trudged from one tavern to another, hoping that the purchase of a hot chocolate would justify our hours-long stay and utilising wi-fi. We caught ...
The Grizzly Woman
... as my zoom wasn't long enough to get any decent shots I felt, but I was as happy as a clam because Dan the Bear Man lent me the use of his binoculars. A while later, other bears showed up for the feast - all told there must have been a dozen different bears and at one time, nine of them were all in the clearing feeding. We had three different mama bears with their respective cubs, plus some big old solitary bears as well. They were all ...
An interesting tableau
... with a gravity-fed showerhead, in the middle of his tomato plants in the vegetable garden. It was apparently the family’s favorite way to get clean, and Sándor and Tünde both availed themselves of it before dinner. After the showers, Sándor and Livia sat on the bench outside and discussed finances. We had each been carrying around part of the donation for the village until that point, and it was a relief to finally get rid of it. Livia was not too happy ...


