No Kerosene: Journey Three

April 24th – May 30th

Visiting Partners

Blue: The 1990 Route: Sighișoara & Râmnicu Vâlcea
Red: Through Budapest to Spilinga
Yellow: Linking recent partners (with beer): Iași, Bielsko-Biała, & Kaunas via Riga

Contents

Page 2: To Sighișoara: The 1990 ‘First Stop’

• A dash down the Rhine, through Wien & The Night Train
• Reconstruction & Memory
  • A first journey in 1990

Page 3: To Râmnicu Vâlcea: 1990, a ‘Game Changing’ visit

• Following the route of ’90
  • Mediaș: fortified church & the usual (for Transylvania) quality art
  • Copșa Mică – then and now

• Radu Alexandrescu: the one who made it all happen

Page 4: The Iron Gates & on to Budapest

• Turnu Severin:
  • Traian’s Danube Bridge;
  • George Gordon (‘Byron’) & a curious Romanian complex
• The Iron Gates: ‘Wherefore art thou Tolkien’ – the magic of childhood realised

Page 5: To Spilinga: Environmental Passion & Convivial Fun

• Lubljana
• Trieste
• Napoli on an (unexpectedly) special night

Page 6: To Iași, the Centre, where partnerships began

• Bologna
• Through Wien, Budapest & Brașov
• Hargita megye – & over the Carpathians (again)

Page 7: To Bielsko-Biała: New links

• The Carpathians Again: with music
• Puzzling through Wien
• Unexpectedly: Franz Josef (& friends) & a City councillor link

Page 8: Resplendent Riga & Cheerful Kaunas,

• Warsawa overnight
• Panevėžys: a beginning in Lithuania
• Riga: Ice Hockey & a filmic contribution to Sherlock Holmes legends
• Kaunas: A Joyous Meeting, An Historic Library & A Birthday Party
• The Return: enlivened by (?the inevitable?) Great Chaos on German Railways
  • but we survived

The Routes