Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Bucharest

I'm in Bucharest, Romania, one of the great old cities of central Europe.  David Schmidtz, Jerry Gaus, Virgil Storr.... good times.  Except that they didn't get my luggage here.  A lonely feeling, to be in a country where you don't even read the alphabet, and no luggage.  (Just got delivered!  Hooray!  Underwear!)

Went out to dinner last night.  And Jerry Gaus, finding himself in Bucharest, a 600 year old city of 2 million sometimes referred to as "Little Paris," just had to order the fajitas in a fried taco shell.  Since he lives in Arizona, he never gets any Mexican food, I guess.

Anyway, this was so astonishing, I had to take a photo.  It was dark, but...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Recent AP story about "bride stealing custom" in Bucharest: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3mJpYyZzS4dIO-qh_o9VjE_GvhA?docId=80efe026d6da43199ea6333f09b2359f