Jurassic Park

Bucharest, Romania: A life-size model of a dinosaur is covered during a snow fall. Photo: Vadim Ghirda/AP.

In the Name of the Law

Bucharest, Romania: Former boxer Mike Tyson plays with the gavel used by the President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies while visiting the Palace of the Parliament. Tyson arrived in Romania to promote an energy drink. Photo: Mihai Poziumschi/AP.

Lunch at Gotham City

The Cimitirul Vesel (Merry Cemetery) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureş county, Romania. It is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in a literary and poetic manner, the people who are buried there as well as scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction. Photo: Michael Bukowski.

S’ils n’ont plus de pain, qu’ils mangent de la brioche

Inside Ceaușescu’s house
Photo: AFP/David Muntean

• Irina Popescu, Private palace of late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu to be opened to the public, Romania-Insider.com March 8, 2016

Romanian Pavilion

Ilie Năstase (Bucharest, July 19, 1946) is a Romanian former world No. 1 professional tennis player, one of the world’s top players of the 1970s. Năstase was ranked world No. 1 between 1973 (23 August) and 1974 (2 June). He is one of the five players in history to win more than 100 ATP professional titles (58 singles and 45 in doubles). He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991. Năstase won seven Grand Slam titles: two in singles, three in men’s doubles, and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championship titles and seven Championship Series titles (1970–73), the precursors to the current Masters 1000. [Read more] [From Wikipedia].

Ilie Năstase on a 2004 Romanian stamp

Un An Nou fericit 2015

We met at a stoplight, along the way of our worldwide Secretum. Even when the light was green, I always saw it red. Un An Nou fericit 2015!