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Lake St Anna (Roman name: Lacul Sfânta Ana) lies in a cold crater of a dead volcano. Mum, me and brother having lunch.
hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szent_Anna-t%C3%B3
Our first long, beautiful and touching journey to my family's second home to Erdély/Transylvania (previously Hungary, it has belonged to Romania since the end of WW1) - and a happy family reunion with my Transylvanian Sekler/Hungarian paternal Grandmother's niece an nephew and Dad's cousins in Székely Land/Székelyföld.
(Dad's mother died 1947, when his son, my father was allowed to come home from the Soviet lager where he had been a POV for five years.)
My maternal grandfather (1888-1948) was born and grown up as well in Erdély/Transylvania, his hometown was Brassó/Brasov/Kronstadt, so we visited his favourite places too. His mother was born in a well-posessed Saxon family in Brassó, his father was a Hungarian nobleman who was born in Upper Hungary (now it belongs to Slovakia.).
About Erdély/Transylvania (including Székely Land with majority of Hungarian population)::
Transylvania, is a geographical region of Romania near the Hungarian border. It covers about 39,000 square miles (101,000 square kilometers). The majority of its people are Romanians, but about a quarter of the population are Magyars (Hungarians). Magyars make up the largest ethnic group in Hungary. Transylvania also has a sizeable Gypsy minority. The Carpathian Mountains and Transylvanian Alps separate the region from the rest of Romania. For years, Romanians and Hungarians quarreled over Transylvania. Magyars conquered the region in the 900’s. From 1526 to 1699, Transylvania was part of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. It was under Hungarian control from 1699 to 1867, when it once again became part of Hungary. During World War I (1914-1918), Romania joined the Allies after being promised Transylvania. After the war, Transylvania became part of Romania. In August 1940, Germany and Italy forced Romania to give northern Transylvania to Hungary. After World War II (1939-1945), Transylvania was returned to Romania and lost its political identity. Transylvania is the main site of the legend about the vampire Dracula. The character of Dracula is based on Vlad Tepes, a cruel prince of the 1400’s who lived in Walachia, a region south of Transylvania. Vlad executed many of his enemies by driving a stake through their bodies. A belief vampires once held by many Romanian peasants added details to the legend. Dracula (1897), a novel by the English author Bram Stoker, made the legend famous. This immensely popular book has inspired numerous plays and motion pictures.
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This trip was not an everyday occurence because we have never met with this part of our family before. The reasons were due to sad and serious historical events:
After WW1 the Treaty of Trianon defined new borders of Hungary due to its role in Great War: we fighted on the side of Central Powers.
Compared to the pre-war Kingdom of Hungary, post-war Hungary had 72% less territory. Its population was 7.6 million, which was 64% less than the population of the pre-war kingdom, whose population was 20.9 million.
31% (3.3 out of 10.7 million) of ethnic Hungarians who lived in the pre-war kingdom lived outside the newly defined borders of post-war Hungary, just like a part of my paternal and maternal family as well as some people of my husband's family (not only in Romania but also in present Slovakia and Ukraine).
After WW2, due to the communist era and especially Ceausescu's politics my father couldn't visit his mother's relatives in Erdély/Transylvania, who lived in Székelyföld (Székely Land or Szekler Land). So we were all happy to meet each other after so many decades!
And another happy ending: both countries has been members of Europe Union since 2004 (Hungary) and 2007 (Romania).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9kely
Cold, sorry ass leftovers.
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one of those days when I just can't get warm...or so I thought until a moment ago, but now the mulled wine is taking effect...much better!
Latest newly learned photoshop trick: when using a layer in overlay mode for dodging and burning, one can use colours as well as black and white. That's what I did here (with a warm orange colour) to give the black parts of her coat a warmer glow. You can see the difference because I forgot to "do" her nose.
"I, you, she or he…" statue in the snow by Jaume Plensa at Meijer Botanical Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
MOTORSPORT - WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 2014 - RALLY SWEDEN / RALLYE DE SUEDE - 05 TO 08/02/2014 - KARLSTAD (SWE) - PHOTO : CITROEN RACING / AUSTRAL - 03CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT (FRA) / MEEKE KRIS NAGLE PAUL - (GBR GBR) / CITROEN DS3 - ACTION
Cold soba with beef, cucumber, tempura batter, nori, sesame, spicy sesame oil, scallion, cold dipping sauce
$13.50/$14.50
With poached egg, +$1.50
They started renovation work on the future Cold Beer Company building today. The old rusty shed on the back is gone and they're removing all the loose rocks and pavement.
Strobist Info: 430EXII fired from right and pointed toward the roof. 420EX snooted and fired so that light glides through the bottom and behind the subject.
A picture of a world which never came and which we all hope will never happen again…
Hack Green Nuclear Bunker
14/6/10
Last Thursday in Manchester, five cars were stolen from outside the owner's house because the owner left the engine running to warm it up on a cold morning, leaving the car unlocked and unattended, with the key in the ignition. The next day another six were taken.
And I bet another batch went today. Funniest of all is that it's actually illegal to leave an unattended car with the engine running, so the stolen car won't be covered by
insurance!
www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/183/183455_bookies_...
And it's nothing new.
Seven on a day in 2003
www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/48/48568_ice_gang_drive...
Two on a day in
2002
www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/41/41146_how_jack_frost...
Shot from The York Cold War Bunker.
Managed by English Heritage and open to visitors by way of a guided tour.
A fascinating and chilling experience, details here:
www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/york-cold-...