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 [...]

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 [...]

Who said that the Danube Delta is that place where you can go to relax and enjoy a peaceful day by the lake? Oh yeah, I might have mentioned it a couple of times… me, and pretty much everybody else… Well, it turns out that there’s more to it than you might think. Sure, every [...]

A good map is indispensible when you want  to make the most of your Danube Delta holiday. In a land where the landscape that is continuously changing, you really want to know where you’re going.  Just in the last couple of years, a completely new island rose to surface just north of Sulina. This place [...]

Fist things first! Getting here! Here’s how you do that from a few different points in Romania.

Knowing that Danube Delta is one of the most isolated places in Romania, you would expect to have quite some trouble getting around. But that’s not necessarily true. If you’re going to Sulina or Sfantu Gheorghe, your only choice is by water, but you have plenty of options to choose from. Transport by boat First [...]

I was looking so some fresh news about Danube Delta earlier and I ran into a really interesting article on austriantimes.at that really caught my attention. My surprise is that it was about Tichilesti, the last lepers colony in Europe, which, although is not in the Danube Delta as the article claims, is close and [...]