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I know about Zamfir, btw. I'm partial to D. Luca. They studied together, btw, under Luca's uncle, who revived pan-pipe music, Fanica Luca.
I always associated pan-pipe music with South America, specifically the Andes region. It is quite interesting to know that it exists in Romania as well, and that it has had some influence.
I always associated pan-pipe music with South America, specifically the Andes region. It is quite interesting to know that it exists in Romania as well, and that it has had some influence.
Actually, it's an ancient instrument in Europe. It was known in Italy and Spain, as well. I don't know if it's still used there. I think it was traditionally part of the herding culture.
Hi.everyone, im an amercian who has taken a very strong intrest in romania, have researched extensively, have had several pen pals from there, quite a few native romanian people in my facebook page. Ive discovered romamia is a very unknown country to the rest of the world, what are your thoughts, oponions of romania, would you visit, consider living there ????
I've lived there for 12 years.. not bad if you have savings, since the jobs pay really low. You get to breath fresh air, the people are very humble, food is great! ORGANIC.
IDK why you are asking this, I didn't make any such suggestion.
Of course I am not just looking at cost. What I am saying is that Romania is still expensive, but traditionally well down the list of destination cities. By no means would I just go by the list. But the way I see it, accommodation pricing is based on demand and that at some point stems from the quality of the experience available. To work with your NYC/Buffalo metaphor, my concern would be that Romania is in fact Buffalo, and travel there may cost 0.9x what NYC would cost while offering 0.7x the experience or something like this.
The real point of all this is that I could just go to a place like Ireland, where I wouldn't have any problem communicating, the flight would be a few hundred dollars cheaper and hours shorter, and there would be a long list of sights unseen for me to visit. I am perhaps more intrigued by Romania, as it seems to be "off the beaten path" and wouldn't be such a tourist setup. But if I go to Romania speaking English only, would I have robbed Peter to pay Paul, and find myself only able to eat at places with picture menus (traps!) and talk to people who speak the international language of tourism?
What we all probably like to avoid while traveling internationally is eating french fries and seeing other Americans taking the same pictures we are taking. This is the basic source of my language fears - it is great that people everywhere speak English, but not really appreciated if their primary use of English is to sell my own junk food back to me. I hope this is understandable.
Romanians are some of the best foreign language learners in the world - maybe Italians can compete with them. If you can make some decent conversation in French, German, Italian, Spanish, not to mention English, you will have no problem there!
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