I look at this road and I wonder...

Apologies, apologies...last time I wrote the weather was sweltering and this morning it was snowing – I really have severely neglected my blogging duties. If anyone is still out there reading this – îmi pare rău!

So, what is this title blathering on about? Well, it started out as an ironic reference to the street I live on. Although far from perfectly smooth, we did once have a tarmac-ed road outside our house. Until, that was, the water board finally connected us to a new water supply using plastic pipes – no more brown water, hoorah! Just intermittent water supply in August and September, right when people are coming to visit you – boo! One hot and sticky day, men with diggers and pick axes came and dug a lot of trenches in our road which filled with water. Then they left them over the weekend to stagnate. In the meantime, the neighbours had to dig their own trenches in order to access the pipes running into their homes (luckily we were spared this task as our new house had been fitted with plastic pipes as far as the street. I just had to give the guys a few beers so they'd connect us up properly). Eventually the water supply got back to normal – well actually it got better because now it is clean! – but sadly the same cannot be said for the street. The holes have been covered over with mud and, with time, this mud has been spread around the street. Now, when it rains you would be well advised to wear wellingtons to cross the street – unbelievable really.

Looking back at the picture, I got to thinking about other things...

*the picture on this blog is not actually of my street, but one in a village in South East Romania somewhere – mine is now far more primitive looking. I like it because it seems to say something metaphorical to me – about a journey I'm taking here, or some shit like that.*

I have now been in Romania for a year and to be honest the time has both flown and dragged by. So many things that I didn't plan for have happened, and so many things I have planned for haven't.

Let's see what the next twelve months bring!