{"id":1546,"date":"2022-06-26T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.streetpepper.de\/worldtravel\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2022-07-22T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T10:01:56","slug":"a-reckoning-with-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streetpepper.de\/worldtravel\/2022\/06\/26\/a-reckoning-with-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"A “reckoning” with Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My personal \u201ereckoning\u201c with Romania!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We travelled through the country for almost a month and saw many different landscapes, met so many wonderful people that we would like to talk about the country and our personal feelings a little more.
So much in advance: it was worth it. We finally reached the Black Sea <\/a>and then cycled on to Bulgaria where we are now waiting to see if there is a ferry across the Black Sea to Georgia. If not, plan B starts: cycling along the coast of Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compare!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am always tempted to compare new places with others I know. But I also try not to, and if I do, to be aware of it and check why. When I find something beautiful, I like to compare it to Italy, especially to the island of Elba. There, everything seems perfect to me (my first holiday with Klaus :-)). And if I find something awful, I also like to compare it with Elba and of course the place looks even more awful.
We compare all the time and that’s necessary, but it’s not conducive to breaking down prejudices, one of my wishes for our trip. A kind of location analysis helps me to recognise, but can be completely out of place for my evaluation, or settlement. Romania is not my country and the people have a completely different history. So why compare with Elba or any other place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I won’t be able to stop comparing, but I can make an effort not to see Elba as a yardstick for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above all, the comparisons I make are arbitrary and in my head I think to myself that everyone else is using the same yardsticks and comparing. Wrong! They are only my yardsticks.
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\"reckoning\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Reckoning with he trucks!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There were the trucks, for example, which almost always came far too close to us and thus developed no empathy whatsoever for us as cyclists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klaus wondered how I can swear. But when I shout loudly, I lose my fear a little.
Yes, they don’t have any highways in Romania, so the \u201eEuropean roads\u201c are the highways and we have no business there.
Why should anyone find that reprehensible who doesn’t travel by bicycle. For me personally, this was the end of happiness and the beginning of discontent in Romania. We were scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n