Paste in Maramures III
Duminica de Paste we had a good micul dejun and after it we went to Sighetu Marmatiei, just to find out that the Sighet Memorial Museum we wanted to visit was closed. So we decided to go to Barsana Monastery instead. On the way we saw traditional costumes, people bringing the food to be blessed and othe Easter celebrations. Barsana is a great monastery, that Sunday lots of people visited it, and the nuns were busy cleaning the floor everywhere... Wanting to relax a bit (and to play football), we crossed a bridge to get to a meadow which seemed really nice & peaceful, but it should turn out otherwise...Not knowing that in fact it was private property, we learned it by the owners' crazy yells at ous chasing us away (although Marius tried to facilitate). Lunch was now the really traditional one: miel cu hrean, oua si palinca - yeees palinca already for lunch, the owner insisted! In the afternoon we went to the mountains, this time for real and had a good time walking there (seeing the last snow up there) and playing volleyball.
For dinner we met a Norwegian journalist who had just arrived, he was on a journey through Romania & Ucraine and had been to at least a hundred of other countries - he told us incredible stories about his travels... a bit too talkative for my taste, but...well...
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