A day journal in Marseille

Allons enfants de la Patrie… that`s how the patriotic volunteers in Marseille used to frantically sing in their French hymn composed over 200 hundred years ago, proud not only of their country but...

Bonnieux - good and tempting like bread in Provence

Here, the boulangers (bakers) of Provence have also got a bread museum that they are very proud of, and the village is on the “colored top” list because of its incredible landscapes and the endless fields of...

From the heart of the mountains, with love

Busteni, Belle Époque, 1909

The prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, “Nababul”(“The Mogul”) as he was nicknamed by his contemporaries, starts the construction of a castle...

Harem or the life and beauty behind the veil

“I was born in a mansion, which was formerly the harem of a pasha. In my childhood years there used to live servants and odalisques, together with us. I grew up listening to stories and songs which might have come from...

The place where you “loved and understood Beauty”

During daytime the traffic is heavy-plenty of water buses, motorboats, gondolas-if something floats and is in Venice, it travels across the Grand Canal. In daylight, too, it still remains one of the world`s glories. At nighttime, particularly when the full moon shines gently on the...

Slumdog Millionaire - the real

Everybody loved Slumdog Millionaire. I can`t imagine any of my friends, acquaintances, film critics or sensitive film fans, not having been touched, thrilled, enthusiastic about the...