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The separate Weekend edition of Flemish news magazine Knack has published the feature Wolf People in Sheep's Clothing by Mick Palarczyk. It shows what a wonderful new travel destination was added to the map of the European Union today, following the entry of Romania.
Please have a look at the other pages of this publication.
I can see people clambering up the steep mountain meadows everywhere I look. Shepherds with their herds, singing children, horse carts. Enormous baskets of food, carried by women so short and squat that they seem to be dwarf folk. Everyone climbs, ploddingly, up the mountain, like the sea turtles who for millions of years have been climbing up the same beach to lay their eggs every year. I realise how intensely happy these people must be. How fantastic it is to be able to gather on a high meadow for a century-old ritual on this beautiful spring morning.
Excerpt from Romania: Wolf people in sheep's clothing by Mick Palarczyk.
Nowhere in Europe daily life is as authentic as in Romania's countryside. Gipsy girls wear the traditional black, the original headgear was never abandoned and festivities are still connected to the rhythm of the harvests and not to the schedules of the tourists. Now Romania has entered the European Union this authenticity will disappear slowly but certainly. And maybe the unusual kindness and hospitality of the people as well. That's why now is the moment to explore the youngest member state of the European Union. (Photos Mick Palarczyk).
These pictures are part of the feature Wolf People in Sheep's Clothing.
