Saturday, 20 June 2009

Bega Festival

Bega Festival started from 19th to 21st June, it is a yearly summer event. That was why I kept bugging Daniel to bring me there, and he did eventually!

We parked our car in the city center, as usual. It was a 10 minutes walk to the Bega River.

It was really funny to watch this bird walking around and trying to impress many other birds. Look at his puffy head, it shrunk when he didn't have any bird near him. In fact we noticed that many birds were like this. Well, summer time is the perfect period to breed, I guess.



No more tulips, now we have another impressive garden art.


On our way to the river, we passed by the graffiti wall. Here are some nice ones.





We were on the river bridge, the festival was started early. Many booths were set up already.


At another end of the bridge, looking down. The beautiful bride and the handsome groom were taking pictures with people.


We arrived the river side. People were preparing the fireworks which would start at 11pm.


There were 3 different bands playing on the stage. The concert started from 8:30pm - 11pm. The duck was the superstar during the 3-day festival. Why duck? Because there'll be a duck race on the 3rd day, which is the main highlight for tomorrow's program. We bought a duck at €1 in the hope that we'll be running away with €1.000 if our duck reaches the ending point at the first place.


The cute man-in-duck.


Me with the puffy man-in-duck.


These were the little ducks-in-sun-glasses which will be racing on the river. There'll be 20.000 ducks participate in this race.


This was the booth from carturesti, the book store where I purchase "Twilight Saga" from. They were selling tea, the way they wrote 茶道 was funny. I didn't buy tea from them, I liked the books better.

Kids were painting and drawing.

A piece of art at the river side to raise the public awareness of recycling the plastic bottles.

A painter.


This guy was from National Geography!


The songs that the 2nd band played were quite boring, so we went to other place for some light meals. It was only 8:30pm, still a long time to go until the fireworks got started. At 10:15pm we came back to the same spot where we sat to continue watching the concert.

The last song before the fireworks began! Although it started to rain, a few small drops... we quickly got up and found a place for shelter.


Yay, fireworks!!



This vid is better. Daniel didn't film nicely for the 1st one because it was so amazing to watch the striking fireworks with our own eyes.


The rain got heavier, we had to rush back home. Might as well took a picture with the beautiful fountain at night.

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Twilight Saga Box

I just added these to my collection of vampire books.

I bought the Twilight Saga Box after I watched the Twilight movie 2 weeks ago. It was quite difficult for me to search for the English version here, I thought I would have to order it through Amazon.com but eventually Daniel found it online at carturesti.ro - they have a branch in Timisoara city center, surprisingly near and convenient! They didn't have stock though, in fact they helped us to get it from the HQ in Bucharest! The entire series cost about €45, quite expensive but definitely worth every penny!

Now I can bring one of these books along with me for a holiday in Greece next month!

I am anticipating the movie sequel "New Moon" to be released this fall, can't wait!





Sunday, 14 June 2009

Historical Place

We went on picnic today, grilled and chilled outside. We thought we should enter this historical place to check things out after the picnic.

Cherry tree near the entrance, full of irresistible red cherries...


This is the Romanian traditional dance and costumes.


I would have to climb this stuff...


This tall... not sure what it is.


No idea too, perhaps the ancient Romanian used this to prepare food...




This cute little house is empty, abandoned, but is kept remained like this for years. Nobody is living inside. I like the green garden and the bench. Why not sell it to us at a cheap price, don't waste it, you know...


This is a 263-year-old church from Topla, it was built date back to 1746. Totally amazing!


Here's the description of the church.
 
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