I am in Mangalia on the Romanian Black Sea coast since a few days now. We are visiting Miruna’s mum and enjoy a life without worries, but with nice traditional food, good literature and fabulous weather. About a month ago we travelled from Schwerin to Berlin, from there separately to Iasi in Romania, to Ecotopia in the Republic Moldavia, back to Romania for a week, just over the border to Bulgaria for a few days and then to Mangalia. I hope I will soon find the time to post a detailed account of this trip, a journey often like travelling in time, between so many cicles of friends, families, cultures, between west and east, high tech glass and steel cities and peaceful villages without roads.