The other day, I turned the TV on and I accidentally found a documentary about the wild horses roaming in the Danube Delta, especially those in around the Letea forest. I must admit, it was very interesting because it filled plenty of gaps in my own knowledge of the matter. The wild horses have been [...]

I just finished reading Europolis, written by Jean Bart, the pseudonym of Eugeniu Botez. I had written an article about him and it was appropriate to go ahead and read his work to better understand what he was doing. I bought it in the Danube Delta Museum gift shop a few days ago. I won’t [...]

The Aquarium in Tulcea I visited the Aquarium in Tulcea this Saturday. My uncle wanted to show my two-year-old cousin the museum that everybody is talking about, so we took the whole family for an intellectual expedition. Last time I’ve been there was two years ago, just after the grand inauguration. It hasn’t changed much, [...]

I mentioned in the past how I hate it when somebody who makes a documentary about the Danube Delta always puts that sad, melancholic music as the soundtrack… Why do people insist on doing that? If you spend just one day in the Delta you’ll realize that it’s nothing like that. It’s actually action packed [...]

The festival (Festivalul Internațional al Bărcilor cu Vâsle) is an event organized by Ivan Patcaichin, with his project Rowmania. The declared goal of the event is to promote the rowboat, the traditional means of transport used by all fishermen here in the Delta. In the last few years, the classic „lotca” has faded in popularity [...]

Ivan Patzaichin is arguably one of the best Romanian sports figures in history and definitely the best canoeist in the world … he’s way up there, with Nadia Comăneci, Gică Hagi and Ilie Năstase. He compeeted in five Summer Olympic games where he won seven medals: four gold and three silver. His biggest successes in [...]

If you ask anybody in Sulina who’s the most popular person who ever lived here, you’ll get only one answer: Jean Bart. That is the pseudonym that writer Eugeniu P. Botez took when he published his works in the early twentieth century. He is best known for writing the novel Europolis which documents the cosmopolite [...]

Since I was just talking about the camping in Sfantu Gheorghe, I think it would be just appropriate to also say a few words about the camping in Sulina. The short version is: they don’t have a camping there anymore! Here’s how the place used to be Me and my friends were in Sulina about [...]

There are plenty of places where you can set up your tent in the Danube Delta, but the best one is undoubtedly the Dolphin camping in Sfantu Gheorghe. There’s everything you could ever ask of a normal camping, and then some more! The camping was built a couple of years ago together with the Sfantu [...]

It’s incredible how time can change thing in such a way that you can’t find any traces of a place’s past. Old buildings make room for new ones, old swamps are turned into tennis fields. Something like that takes place in the village of Periprava. Historically, the place has always been isolated, being located far [...]