Early in December I go with my mother - a retired librarian - for a pre-Christmas vacation in Cyprus. The Norwegian winter is very bracing. Several municipalities are now sponsoring rest and recreation visits in the Mediterranean for retired (or disabled) people who would rather stay warm. We join one of these groups.
December 2, 2005
April 22, 2005
Verba volent, scripta manent
Spoken words blow with the wind - but what is written will remain.
Below I give links to texts in English that touch upon the topics we discussed during the visit to Romania:
April 20, 2005
Back in Bucharest
The last time I visited Rumania, in 1977, I went as a peace researcher. At that time, the political climate was growing colder, after the relatively open years around 1970. Europe was in decline.
