Impressions of Our Ten Days on the Lower Danube
May 29, 2011
John and Donna Mollan
Historic towns and cities
Ancient churches of all shapes and sizes
Fertile plains, green hills
Empty synagogues, sad reminders of the Holocaust
Bullet holes, bomb damage, destroyed tanks
Market squares with wonderfully colorful and tasty produce
Women wearing babushkas
A myriad of strange currencies
Horses plowing the fields, donkey carts
Odd makes of cars
Roman Ruins
Wonderful music
Gigantic monuments to past despots.
Ugly gray concrete high-rises, legacies of communism
People just trying to get by
Stories of centuries of conflict; glory, occupation, revolution and hope for a better future.
The legacy of population decline
Empty factories
A babel of languages
Lonely fortresses, reminders of times gone by
Forests reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm
Empty villages, blank windows staring outward
And still the river flows.
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