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 colorful and flavorful produce
- Women wearing babushkas
- A myriad of strange currencies
- Horses plowing the fields, donkey carts
- Odd makes of automobiles and trucks
- Roman Ruins
- Wonderful music
- Gigantic monuments to past despots
- Ugly gray concrete high-rises, legacies of 45 years 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
- Paying more for water than for beer.
- A babel of languages
- Lonely fortresses, reminders of times gone by
- Forests reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm
- Empty villages with blank windows staring outward
- …and still the river flows.
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