Living in Nowhere, Europe (4): Home sweet home
Toporăşti village (Pungeşti), Vaslui county, Romania. 8 July 2007. In the second picture you can also see the great-grandfather of the late Dacia Logan, called Dacia 1300 :)
Living in Nowhere, Europe (2)
The pictures below are taken this month very close to Cluj Napoca, Romania, on the road between Cluj Napoca and Gherla. If you ever want to visit this village (should I say ‘this ghost town’?), take the road E 576 from Cluj towards Gherla and you can get there just before the intersection with DN 161.
This village, made out of only six or seven severely damaged apartment buildings and a new church, doesn’t even have a name – or, at least, I wasn’t able to find it. This seems to be yet another ghost town inherited from the communist era; as you can see in the fourth picture below, beside the church the only other thing in this village is a crowded bar 
Living in Nowhere, Europe
I was really amazed when I took these pictures some years ago. It was on the 7th of December 2008, I was driving from Budapest (Hungary) to Iasi (Romania) and I have seen this strange place in the mountains – I do not remember the exact location, but it is probably very close to Toplita (in Hungarian: Maroshévíz) or Gheorgheni (Hungarian: Gyergyószentmiklós) [both of them being situated in the Harghita (Hungarian: Hargita) county, Romania].
Of course you can see some fences in the pictures below, but you have to trust me: there were no other people living around that tent. There was no village, no anything – it was only that tent, and the person(s) living in it. And it was on the 7th of December. Do we see a hermit’s home? Dreamers can think about this, but reasonable people already know: no person that really has a home would stay on that place in mid-winter (however, the place seems to be very well cared for – see the decorations around the tent!).
And yes – it’s Europe, it’s the 21st century!
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