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Roosavelt, and Stalin divide up the spoils.  Those behind the Iron Curtain hold a lifetime of resentment against the trust placed in Stalin to hold fair elections post WWII.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181016_112437931.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181016_112437931</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/tempfileforshare_2018-12-07-10-40-49-e1546145667527.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tempFileForShare_2018-12-07-10-40-49</image:title><image:caption>In 1974, Gherghe Fritea, (my father's original last name) takes my father out into the field to express the difficult times in Romania without the chance of being overheard. "The lightbulbs have ears," he told us.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/15441036906621096951401.png</image:loc><image:title>15441036906621096951401</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181113_181317.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181113_181317</image:title><image:caption>My cousin, Gherghe, lives in a divided world. He has watched his family become divided, his penison cut in half and his country modernized.  He complained bitterly about Communism when I first met him in 1974, but the new world is not at all what he had hoped for.  Nostalgia for the austere past, dissatisfaction of the present, and distrust of a mysterious future fill his life.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1544105342960654614102.png</image:loc><image:title>1544105342960654614102</image:title><image:caption>"Make love, not war." Reminiscent of the 60's in the US, the theme of peace and reconciliation was in the air after the Revolution of 1989.  But most of the deaths would happen after Ceauscecu's execution.  The struggle for who would maintain power was just beginning.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/15441645193251738096014.png</image:loc><image:title>15441645193251738096014</image:title><image:caption>People look up from the crowds gathered at the Communist Party building and watch as the dictator tries to escape by helicopter.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181012_153122477.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181012_153122477</image:title><image:caption>Photo in the Museum of the Revolution depicting families being separated at the beginning of the Cold War.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/15441681861161868138836.png</image:loc><image:title>15441681861161868138836</image:title><image:caption>Ceausescu's expression is one of disbelief.  He had grown to believe that his subjects loved him.  He is confronted by the surprising reality that the crowd is turning on him.  Four days later, he would be executed.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181029_114637046_hdr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181029_114637046_HDR</image:title><image:caption>The balcony from which Ceauscecu gave his now infamous final speech.  Bullet holes are visible around this square where the brief street battles took place.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-04-16T17:42:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2019/01/31/a-new-circle-begins-part-two/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_164113.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_164113</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_112408.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_112408</image:title><image:caption>I cannot forget the deep, pensive eyes of Zarita when I met her over 44 years ago when she and her sister had just lost their mother.  Zarita's sister died when they were in thier twenties.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_122412.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_122412</image:title><image:caption>Zarita's brother stokes up the still for making palinca.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_100756.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_100756</image:title><image:caption>For recess, the ten students kick around one flat soccer ball on a cement slab.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_100400.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_100400</image:title><image:caption>I pose withe some school kids and the one teacher for students K-fifth grade.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_095008.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_095008</image:title><image:caption>Geta poses with her childhood friend, Zarita and her husband in the old site of Uncle Jon's shack.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_091005-1-e1549391738249.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_091005</image:title><image:caption>Geta's parents gravesite.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_091005.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_091005</image:title><image:caption>Geta</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_090604.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_090604</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181116_085659.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181116_085659</image:title><image:caption>The tranquil Popesti Valley</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-02-17T16:55:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2019/01/26/georgeta-pop-and-her-family/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181012_223742.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181012_223742</image:title><image:caption>Rebecca and Iulia talk about family photos.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181012_125441.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181012_125441</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181112_152904.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181112_152904</image:title><image:caption>Later, Geta's PhD student, Vuki, was able to take us out to a big farm that the University consults with and show us some of their operation.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_20181109_154144780-e1547712986284.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_20181109_154144780</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_20181111_175141594.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_20181111_175141594</image:title><image:caption>We said goodbye to Dorin and Geta until she would pick us up in Ip.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_20181108_175210997.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_20181108_175210997</image:title><image:caption>Patriaxxx and his young drummer friend were just warming up for a dozen or songs for the dinner guests.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_20181108_175206591.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_20181108_175206591</image:title><image:caption>The </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_20181108_152412934_hdr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_20181108_152412934_hdr</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_20181108_144634679.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_20181108_144634679</image:title><image:caption>Not without some creature comfforts, I wondered if the donkey hauled this washing machine up the remaining 100 meter trail to the porch of the convent.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_20181108_143929463.jpg</image:loc><image:title>img_20181108_143929463</image:title><image:caption>We all assemble while Sister takes a photo of us with Sister XXX</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-29T17:19:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/12/30/the-end-of-the-circle/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_20181017_122102265_HDR-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_122102265_HDR.jpg</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_20181017_122102265_HDR.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_122102265_HDR.jpg</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/tempFileForShare_2018-12-30-05-12-08-e1546185109151.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tempFileForShare_2018-12-30-05-12-08</image:title><image:caption>Leonica and Gheorghe in 1974.  They hosted us for two weeks. We saw life of people in rural Romania during the most difficult times there.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181113_110739-e1546173967495.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181113_110739</image:title><image:caption>The stack of books Drake had ordered for us to copy.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181113_163252.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181113_163252</image:title><image:caption>We knocked and called from the gate for several minutes.  I felt that sinking feeling when I knew that we had not planned enough time for this important part of the trip.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181113_141432-e1546163329325.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181113_141432</image:title><image:caption>One of several books we copied </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181114_1102142.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181114_110214~2</image:title><image:caption>The text reads, as near as I can translate it, "Here lies Gavril Fritea, 1864-1911, Rest in peace.  For my whole life I have worked on this earth, my only remaining memory is the cross on this grave."</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181114_110225-1-e1546160199579.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181114_110225 (1)</image:title><image:caption>The grave of Gavril Fritea, by grandfather. I gave some money to Gheorghe in 1994 to help with building a grave marker. To see this for the first time was an emotional and fitting end to our final days in Romania.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181114_110515.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181114_110515</image:title><image:caption>The where my father was baptised.  I notice a newer-looking gravestone in the back left of the yard.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181114_105513.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181114_105513</image:title><image:caption>Gheorghe stopped by just as we were ready to leave.  When we guessed that in three years we would be back, the told us that he did not expect to be around.  He's a tough ole guy, so I am betting against that.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-25T06:04:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/11/06/some-people-and-sites-along-the-way/</loc><lastmod>2019-01-25T05:37:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/08/01/welcome-readers/</loc><lastmod>2022-10-22T14:29:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/12/11/circle-of-friends-part-8-cluj-city-of-contrasts/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181018_094715957-e1544551962948.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181018_094715957</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_113936249_hdr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_113936249_HDR</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_113900161.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_113900161</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_115111402.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_115111402</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_112254882_hdr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_112254882_HDR</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_115301702.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_115301702</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_113911039.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_113911039</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_114008392_hdr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_114008392_HDR</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_070651559.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_070651559</image:title><image:caption>View from our hotel room on the last night in Cluj.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/img_20181017_111214099_hdr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181017_111214099_HDR</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2019-01-16T10:48:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/10/16/austria-part-three-vienna-and-iulia/</loc><lastmod>2019-01-08T15:04:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/11/23/circle-of-friends-part-5-the-devils-of-the-carpathian-gate-continued/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181031_1440531.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181031_144053</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181103_203249522.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181103_203249522</image:title><image:caption>At our dinner, Michael pours the wine as we all toast to the success of the Mountain Ecology Center.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181031_170651574.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181031_170651574</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181031_170650500.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181031_170650500</image:title><image:caption>Ioana points to the numbers they put on each timberso that they could reconstruct the original shack in the exact order as it was originally built.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181120_114310931.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181120_114310931</image:title><image:caption>We hiked by this cabin and many others.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181120_115001042.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181120_115001042</image:title><image:caption>One of the few children learning weaving from Elena Calaiican.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181120_115201025.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181120_115201025</image:title><image:caption>Fundata Valley</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181120_120735861.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181120_120735861</image:title><image:caption>Our new friend, Maria Stoian mowing the meadows.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181120_121443034.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181120_121443034</image:title><image:caption>The lovely photography of Laurent Jouault graces the booklet.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181120_121531575.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181120_121531575</image:title><image:caption>The most recent Eco Marathon.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-12-10T12:41:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/11/25/sighisoara-and-the-citadel/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-30T05:03:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/11/08/circle-of-friends-part-3-tulchea-and-the-danube-delta/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-25T03:48:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/10/02/dusseldorf-germany/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-25T03:37:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/11/18/the-mysterious-adventures-in-bran/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181119_093952711.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181119_093952711</image:title><image:caption>We saw posters all over the Fundata Valley showing walking, biking, and running "eco-tourism" trails.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181031_105814721.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181031_105814721</image:title><image:caption>You can see Aron and Maria's house from the top of the hill, the red tile room, center, top right.  Ours was the balcony on the left of the house.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181031_201531.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181031_201531</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181031_200208.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181031_200208</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181031_201521.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181031_201521</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_20181031_155445717_hdr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_20181031_155445717_HDR</image:title><image:caption>We paid a four lei entrance fee to see the  National Park.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181031_201947.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181031_201947</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181031_1909081.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181031_190908</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181031_155549.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181031_155549</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://fridae.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20181031_155255.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20181031_155255</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-11-20T11:22:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/11/07/circle-of-friends-part-2-the-north-east/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-18T06:04:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/11/15/circle-of-friends-part-4-the-capital/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-16T21:16:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/08/16/the-journey-begins/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:53:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/09/11/fearful-beginnings/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:52:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/09/11/the-backstory/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:48:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/09/06/our-tentative-itinerary/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:46:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/09/12/were-off/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:45:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/09/17/paris/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:40:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/09/20/brussles/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:33:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/09/23/belgium-part-2/</loc><lastmod>2022-12-27T02:51:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/10/07/germany-part-two-berlin/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:16:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/10/14/austria-scott-and-ullie/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:08:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/10/15/austria-part-two-hallstatt-salzburg-and-vienna/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:05:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/10/18/someones-following-us-the-wedding-and-zalau/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T04:00:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/10/23/adrian-and-carmens-wedding/</loc><lastmod>2019-12-30T00:54:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/10/26/rending-a-car-colorful-houses-and-romanian-joinery/</loc><lastmod>2018-11-10T03:59:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/2018/08/30/musings-before-the-departure/</loc><lastmod>2018-09-19T12:32:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog/contact/</loc><lastmod>2018-08-16T21:22:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>https://fridae.blog</loc><changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>1.0</priority><lastmod>2024-10-08T07:58:56+00:00</lastmod></url></urlset>
