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Adrian writes:
"This is to confirm how smart people are. They choose a tree, cut it into small pieces, then make a strange place to rest, such as you might see in the Amazon jungle.
We should consider sending such men to jail for a few years, not because they have killed a tree, but because of their huge stupidity."
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 4th July 2010
In Romania you can find many things. In this case the driver, a woman, has put a poster in the rear window which says:
"In frana si femei sa n-ai incredere"
Which in English says:
"Never place your trust in brakes or women"
Adrian thinks that this woman driver knows herself very well....
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 30th June 2010
Maybe we should understand this driver as a hunter, shooting with his car against people.
Perhaps there are many people in every country like this. But it is still a surprise to meet such people, working and living as men, though they are not ordinary human beings.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 22nd May 2010
Even though Cioroiu Nou is a very important site, where Oltenia Museum invests a lot of money to search the site, and exp.arch.dr.Dorel Bondoc has a lot of hard work to do, it is still possible to find a lot of stupidity on the part of the people there.
There is a lot of garbage dumped on the area, which is very disappointing. The garbage pollutes the rivers, and there is a bad smell from the river, because of the rotting organic matter.
These are images of a trespasser over the site, with sheep on the other side which should not be there.
Romania is a beautiful country, but there are a few stupid people there.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 1st May 2010
At Catunele village, Gorj county, the agricultural works near the Roman castrum have destroyed a very important monument, the clay wall of the castrum on the Motru River side.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 16th April 2010
Approaching the accident, it appeared to be a blockage of one lane of the road.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th April 2010
Soon it was obvious that a large piece of earthmoving equipment had toppled over.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th April 2010
The traffic was held up for some kilometres.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th April 2010
A huge problem for Bîlta village, near Filiaşi, but across the Jiu River was solved with the new concrete bridge. Our Scottish friends went to visit this important construction, not very far from the original old rickety wooden foot-bridge.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
Adrian shows the visitors from Scotland the old wooden foot-bridge over the Jiu River, on the road between Bîlta village and Filiaşi town. Just at the end of this old bridge are placed a lot of wooden crosses, as a reminder of people who have died at Bîlta, placed according to the tradition of putting the crosses near running water.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
A short visit to the future Medical Unit for Bîlta, where, in the spring of next year, will start the work of reconstruction for a better medical resource.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
In the back-yard of the future medical unit of Bîlta, Adrian explains the most important steps to do a good reconstruction next year, starting with the roof
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
In Filiaşi, in the office of the Mayor of the town, eng. Nicolae Stăncioi, the visitors can hear about the main problems of the town and the future projects for the town.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
Also, in the midle of the town, there is a very new medical unit for the assistance of people with special needs, also for treatments for old people, under the good management of Dr Pistol, a very competent doctor.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
Inside, the visitors can see, without any restriction, the modern medical tools, very clean rooms and a very careful atitude of the nurses here.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
At the old hospital of Filiaşi, the new general manager of the medical unit, Dr Gingioveanu shows to the visitors a few of the projects to make this medical unit a mmore modern unit, to provide better medical assistance for the people from the Filiaşi area
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
The friends from Scotland were able to see modern medical tools and rooms inside the building.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
Finally, the guests were able to have a few moments of discussions just in the medical unit of Dr Gheorghe. After this, the visitors from Scotland went back to Bucharest, but they will come back next spring for a future cooperative project here.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 14th December 2009
On the important Roman site Tepelus, you can see a hole made by Treasure Hunters to search for a piece of iron underground. During the last few weeks, Dr Gheorghe has found such holes in a lot of sites, including Cioroiu Nou, Piscul cu Jidovi, Tepelus, Girla Mare etc.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 6th December 2009
Dr Gheorghe writes:
In winter, under rainy and cold conditions, this is a Romanian country road for those passing through the forest.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 6th December 2009
Dr Gheorghe writes:
Look, please, at this young Romanian boy, heading to the future, as the entire Romanian people does it.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 6th December 2009
Inspecting the digs at Cioroiu Nou, evidence of treasure hunters was found, even though police are protecting the site.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 2nd September 2008
Dr Gheorghe writes:
In a small village in Romania, at the end of the world, far, far away from civilisation, living in the middle age, there is a place for the future. An important person from this village has built a gate, using a house door, possibly with a carpet behind it. But the door has ... What is that?
A peep hole?
Perhaps to see who is outside, asking the owner for permission to enter? - But in any case, the door has no bell.....
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 17th October 2009
As is detailed in a report below, the new concrete bridge from Bilta Village, about two hundred metres up from the old wooden footbridge over the Jiu River is a very bad one. It is believed that when the Jiu River floods, as it does every spring, the bridge will be damaged by the water coming from the mountains.
Just upstream of the bridge is the confluence of the Jiu, Motru and Gilor Rivers.
Even in these photos it can be seen that in the middle of winter, the Jiu has burst its banks, and has come over the main island of the bridge, which has been made almost like a dam in front of the Jiu.
Worse, a large part of the foundations of the bridge are simply clay! The flooding of the Jiu will only increase, especially when the snows of winter begin to melt in spring, putting the structure of the bridge in jeopardy.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 20th December 2008
This is the general view of the Racari fort area, at the end of November 2008!
The site of Racari is one of the most important locations from ancient Roman times. Here, Arch. Dr. Eugen Silviu Teodor, from the National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest, in cooperation with the Arch. Dr. Dorel Petrus Bondoc, from Oltenia Museum, Craiova, have made great discoveries about Roman culture and civilisation.
But, today, this is the reaction of local authorities: The site has become a huge dump, with no protection.
The Alexis Project, together with the Oltenia Museum Manager, Prof. Dr. Mihai Fifor, are ready to ask the local authorities to give the site the protection of their administration, to protect it, and to respect the hard work of the specialists there.
There are no words to describe the stupidity of the local people: to kill history.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 30th November 2008
After many years hard work, a concrete and earth bridge is ready to link Bilta village to Filiasi town.
Although we are not experts, it is easy to see that this bridge will act like a dam across the Jiu River when water levels rise in spring floods. When that happens, we will see what kind of bridge it is.
In the village of Ghidici, Dolj County, is a very beautiful building for local authorities, which cost a lot of money.
In the front of the building is a statue, made of stone and bronze with four huge lions (the lions came from .... Ghidici??).
On top of the stone obelisk is a very strange huge bird, as can be seen here. This strange bird must be an ancient one, maybe one billion years old, because it has a huge head, but a small mouth, and very big eyes.
At the same time, when a lot of money has been spent in Ghidici for lions, an aquila (perhaps!) and a huge building, a very important historical site, just near the village, is in a bad situation as can be seen from the photo. It is not marked, has no protection, and is just a simple field. It may be because there is no money for cultural artefacts, only for stupid monuments like this!
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 1st November 2008
At Slaveni village, the main village of Gostavatu-Olt county, there is a huge ancient Roman fortress, the main castrum of the Oltenia area.
Here, at the eastern border of the Oltenia area, on the left bank of the Olt River, ancient Romans made the most important stone fortress of the entire Dacia Inferior, to protect the Oltenia area, and also their main city, or colonia, from these ancient times, Romula, near the present city of Caracal.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 19th October 2008
The ancient Slaveni Roman fortress was destroyed by the ancient Goth people. A Goth army of over 50 000 soldiers attacked the Roman soldiers from Slaveni fortress, comprising about 1000 soldiers, in a bloody fight. After this battle, most of the ancient fortress was destroyed, although it was rebuilt later.
In the middle of October, a very cold, foggy and rainy time, Oltenia Museum was working at the Slaveni Castrum under the direction of the archaeologist Dr Dorel Bondoc, with the help of a few people from the village.
The search was in the south corner of the castrum, over an ancient tower, and there are many artifacts from there demonstrating life in these ancient times.
It should be remembered that Oltenia Museum has made huge efforts this summer to search in many locations in Oltenia, such as Racarii de Sus/Bradesti Dolj, as well as Cioroiu Nou/Cioroiasi-Dolj, where the general manager of the Oltenia Museum, Professor Dr Mihai Fifor finished two stages of a search in the same summer, July and September, also at Desa/Dolj and now at Slaveni/Gostavatu-Olt, for a better understanding of ancient Roman culture in Oltenia, and to promote it around the world.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 19th October 2008
At the same time as the work of Oltenia Museum was proceeding, the local authorities from Slaveni have constructed, against the law, and against culture and respect for ancient times, a huge area for sports activities such as football games, right over the ancient castrum area, and were quite uncooperative with the museum specialists.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 19th October 2008
Also, the area of the ancient Roman Thermes was defiled by the dumping of the rubbish of the entire village, with the agreement of the local authorities.
Oltenia Museum and the Alexis Project have made a lot of effort to protect this area, asking for help from t
he authorities and from the media.
2000 years after the Goths attacked, at Slaveni, other Barbarians attack the ruins of the ancient castrum, as can be seen here.
Romania is a beautiful country, but the same cannot be said for some of its people.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 19th October 2008
Near Slanic Prahova, Prahova County, there is a small salt mountain beside a salt lake, called Baia Baiului.
The effect was like a cup on its side, with the salt lake in the cup, overshadowed by the mountain.
Now the salt mountain has fallen into the lake. It may have been preventable, with enough research and effort.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 12th July 2008
The fresh water springs may well re-create the cave and the lake, but for the present the whole effect has been destroyed.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 12th July 2008
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Alex writes:
"Better for this car to be in Romania and not in the USA!"
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 1st July 2008
Romania entered the European Union just one year ago, so many people do not understand what it really means and implies. It is not just papers and talking, not just facts at a higher level.
For example, Romania must now take care of people with special needs, so there must be provision for them to cross the road and bypass stairs in buildings, and of course many other things.
Dr Gheorghe could write a book about the stupidity of workmen and supervisors who make provisions for people with special needs but with no real understanding of what these people require.
Here is a very clear example of this stupidity. The photograph shows the entrance to the single huge medical unit in Filiaşi, where many specialists and general practitioners have their consulting rooms and surgeries.
It might seem to be the entrance to a cave, but one must understand that through this door for Dr Gheorghe's practice alone, over 11 000 people every year, or over 100 000 people altogether counting all the clients who walk through just this door.
So it was required to build a concrete ramp for special needs access into and out of the building.
Look at it!
Dr Gheorghe imagines a comedy movie with Charlie Chaplin or Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot as a special needs client.
They try to climb up this very steep and narrow piece of concrete, to the door. After much labour, the person arrives not just in front of the entrance, but in front of a closed door, so they can either fall back down again, or if they are very strong, they can catch with their hands (or mouth if they have problems with their hands!) this strange iron construction on the right, which seems to be the entrance to a jail or a cage.
But do not worry, because if they fall down and some parts of their body are broken, the medical unit is close by, and can help them very quickly, but only if the doctors jump out of the building or slide down a rope like a monkey!
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 18th April 2008
A man washing his car on the left bank of the Danube, using water from the Danube, and a lot of chemical substances in the process, which washes straight into the river with the next rain. There are many car washing places in Drobeta Turnu-Severin which he could use.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 7th March 2008
Dr Gheorghe was with Alina Neagoe at the site of the "Three Counties Monument" to obtain information about the work being done there.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 7th March 2008
At this point the monuments have not been damaged, as can be seen in this photograph, but it is important that workers engaged on other tasks realise the historical and cultural significance of monuments such as these.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 7th March 2008
For more than twenty years, Dr Gheorghe has lived and worked in the Bilta area. In this area shown on the map in a valley between two large hills there is a large forest of acacia trees in which he has made many searches for the ancient village of Bilta over those years. It is a large forest, covering 1000 metres down each side of the ridge, and stretches for 1000 metres along the ridge.
On 2nd March he was in this area with Alina searching for ancient wooden dams. After searching in the main fossiliferous area nearby, they climbed the hill to the north to the acacia forest, to look for ancient dams in the acacia valley.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 2nd March 2008
But on top of the ridge between the valley of the fossiliferous site and the valley of the acacia forest they encountered an image of a crime: the entire area of the acacia forest had been cut down by workers. They made many roads for the exploitation of this dead forest and this has led to sever erosion because of springs, rain and wind.
Dr Gheorghe is sure that if he asked the workers for documents which gave them permission to destroy the forest, they could produce a lot of documentation which gave them permission for this crime against nature.
In only a few places there are some young, planted acacia trees to replace those cut down. Even so, putting in these small plants may be useless, because the environment which nurtured the forest has been changed forever.
There was a time when the entire region of Romania was covered by forest. The region of Transylvania was named because of its forests, trans = across, sylvania - forests. Now the number and extent of those forests has been greatly decreased, and it feels like a familiar relative has died.
The whole world should know what a beautiful land Romania is, what a wonderful culture and civilisation has grown up here, what kinds of animals and plants live and grow there. This exploitation degrades that heritage.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 2nd March 2008
This is a secondary street of Bilta Village in Romania, near Filiaşi, shown in the third millenium after Jesus Christ.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 16th February 2008
January 2008 was very cold, less than -10° Celsius, a strong wind and a lot of snow.
All Romanian people have a strong sense of property, sometimes even with things that are not their property, such as public car parking. It is a real fight to keep your parking spot free here, and people use all kinds of methods to safeguard their parking spot.
Here the owner of the small car has parked his beloved car in the middle of the snow, and after he comes back from town, finds another car has blocked the exit of his car. Since both cars are on public property, it would seem right on a first come first served basis that the second car should have parked so that the first, smaller car could get out, and not block his car completely.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 6th January 2008
The war begins!
The owner of the small car puts a piece of paper on the window of the big car, with a note reading "What are you doing here? Next time, I'll move your car right outside Filiaşi!"
The owner of the large car reads this, then adds a note: "Move it if you have enough money to do it!" and leaves his car where it is.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 6th January 2008
Dr Gheorghe writes:
This is an expert in archaeology working in winter in Romania today, for about €300 per month. I believe that the single reason for this difficult task is his love for his work, and his vocation.
Dr Dorel Bondoc is a quiet man, very able in his job, and ready to do everything he can for his passion, History. He is a hero; If Romania had 1000 people like him, we would be the best country in all the world.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 24th November 2007
This ridiculous wooden sign, which reads "Archaeological Excavations. Access Restricted" is the sole protection for this important site. It is like a science fiction movie - the law is very clear about what must be done for this protection, but it is not done, for lack of funds.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 24th November 2007
Here, in one small kitchen and one small bedroom, this specialist works, eats and sleeps for week after week, in very cold conditions with no comforts, when about 2000 years ago at this place, the Romans had underfloor heating, and a very comfortable life style.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 24th November 2007
This is the scene at the northern area outside the castrum, where the Roman therms (hot baths) were!
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 24th November 2007
In the middle of the Slaveni site, an important castrum in which digging is totally prohibited, two concrete poles have been erected for electric light, inside the main buildings of the castrum, even though this is a protected area, and there has been no action to mark the area so that such mistakes are not made in future.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 30th November 2007
This is a photo of an ambulance perhaps 20 years old, which has the left hand door, the driver's door, missing. It was photographed on the road between Cioroiu Nou and Craiova. This is a very dangerous situation, but there is no money to fix the door or get a new ambulance, even though the lack of a door puts the driver and his passengers, the nurse and the patients, in danger.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 16th October 2007
The Henri Coandă Museum is near the small village of Perisor, half way between Cariva and Calafat, a beautiful city on the left bank of the Danube.
Henri Marie Coandă (June 7, 1886 – November 25, 1972) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and the builder of world's first jet powered aircraft, the Coanda-1910.
Although he was born in Bucharest, his grandmother and grandfather came from Perisor, which is the reason for the museum.
He was the discoverer of the Coandă effect, named after him, and used it to build the first jet airplane, in 1910.
However it crashed at an airport near Paris, when Coandă lost control of the aircraft, and it left the runway and caught fire.
He continued a very productive career designing and building aircraft, hovercraft, and even the world's first jet powered sleigh!
Bucharest's Henri Coandă International Airport is named after him.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 11th November 2007
Text: Adapted from Wikipedia
This warplane in the garden of the Coanda Museum has an interesting story attached to it.
When it was brought here to be placed near the museum, a lot of people from the village came to have a look. The local priest climbed into the plane's cockpit, to see how it felt to be the pilot of the plane.
However he had with him, hidden in his cassock, a small chainsaw, called in this area a Drujba, and while he was in the cockpit, he started it up!
Everyone thought he had somehow started the plane's engine, and there was great consternation in the gathered throng, and everyone ran away terrified.
In front of the plane are Amelia and her daughter Maria-Amelia.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 11th November 2007
GPS coordinates of the Soviet MIG fighter at the Coandă Museum.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 9th February 2008
