Part 3 (if you want to read part 1, please press here For part 2, please press here ) 2003: The best is yet to come… After communism, Romania lived a turbulent period. An era full of major problems, personal tragedies that everyone wants to forget about. At that first period, six in ten foreigners who entered in the country were not serious… It was normal, when people were hearing stories about an unstable country, the ones who were destroyed at their own place were the first to undertake the risk and move to Romania, they had nothing to lose. They were hoping to discover an “Eldorado”, [...]

  Part 2 (if you want to read part 1, please press here) 2001: Receiving back properties…       Next year rolled out fast. The most important fact that I can recount was that plenty of my Romanian friends received properties! Many courts ended, many property titles were registered… several friends of mine inherited properties from their grand parents or other family members. I will always laugh remembering how much fun we had with Matei, who inherited during the previous year 1 hectare (= 10.000 sq.m.) at Pipera area! He was begging us to stop, but we were laughing with tears, as he [...]

  Part 1                    My apartment in Bucharest is probably one of the most quiet places that exist in this world… this is why I woke up during the night, sweating and scared by the noise… I checked all around the rooms, but nothing seemed to have changed. Was it a real sound? Or something I dreamed about? I laid on my bed… Didn’t want to switch on the light, but I turned left and checked the alarm clock. It was 01.00… I fell asleep at around 23.30, “dead tired” after an exhausting day (I didn’t really manage to relax during the summer of 2009…). But, wait a minute… [...]