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Romania root trip July 2006

Sinaia monestary

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Jul 24 2006, 09:51 PM

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Sinaia, Romania

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We were picked up by our tour guide/driver after breakfast. On the way to a town called 'Sinia' (called after Mount Sinai near Israel) we passed wagons and horse carriages. This is because the country is very poor, and people don't have many modern resources. We also passed an oil factory, which was a great oil resource for the Germans during World War 2. Nowadays, there is very little oil left and it is hardly useful.

In Sinia we visited an orthodox church. Savta says that it is very fun visiting her home country and even better, talking to our driver in Romanian, which she hasn't done in a while.

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