the place where the sky is always greyor how blogs and wikis are better for you than newspapers

European newspapers

would like you to

think that …

there is a place where

the sky is always

grey.

Is the sky always grey in Romania?

‘Corruption: l'UE épingle la Roumanie’Le Figaro (FR)

‘Agony of children left behind in Romania’

Daily Mail (UK)

‘A flood of 350,000 skilled workers is expected to leave Romania for the UK.’

The Sun (UK)

‘Dall' orfanotrofio in Romania alla

prostituzione’ La Repubblica (IT)

no wonder I can see the

clouds gathering in

your mind …

and that you imagine

Romania to be like

this.

but what the journalists

aren’t showing you …

and what you do find on

blogs, wikis, travel sites

and the likes of Flickr is …

the blue sky!

above the Danube Delta, ‘an outstanding beauty’

TripAdvisor user

above Voronet, ‘one of the world’s greatest

cultural gems’Redstate.com blog

Peles, ‘possibly the most beautiful castle in all of

Eastern Europe’Neatorama

Sibiu, ‘the 2007 European capital of culture’

Wikipedia

yes, there are clouds.

but the sky is blue in

Romania too.

‘an amazing country’ Responsibletravel.com user

ooh, and the atmospheric scientists (a.k.a. meteorologists) talk of 210 sunny days per year in Romania

although usuallyI don’t really trust them,

they do have a point here.

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