Cluj statue

 

Cluj-Napoca, Romania; the statue at the top of the fountain pictured below.  Another crooked picture. :)

Cluj fountain

Cluj-Napoca, Romania.  Also taken April of last year: a fountain at the base of a statue outside the church pictured below.


It's a crooked picture, but I still like it.  The whole day felt a bit crooked--I flew out of Cluj-Napoca to the Paris-Beauvais airport in the wee hours of the next morning, and I'd spent two or three weeks trying to figure out how to get from the Paris-Beauvais airport to Mont Saint Michel and back so I could see the inspiration for the Disney castle.  Then, that afternoon, I decided I was both a pinch travel-weary and incredibly homesick for Edinburgh.  So I scrapped all my France plans and bought a plane ticket to go home. 

It's kind of a nice feeling, to be homesick for somewhere that you've chosen to live.  It means you chose well. 

Cluj-Napoca

 

The front of a large church (by my standards, not the world's) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, taken last April.  I spent a little under a day and a half in Cluj-Napoca, and it was very... different from the rest of Romania.  It was sunny and hot, for one thing.  It was a much bigger city than anywhere else I went (excepting Bucharest), with a lot more people, and a lot more stores (chains and otherwise). 

More Manchester

 

Another picture from June (2011) of what I'm fairly certain is Manchester's cathedral.  (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)  I meandered around the perimeter and then moved on without going inside, but it was a cute little church/cathedral. 

Manchester, England

 

Manchester, England.  I spent about a day there last June on my way back from Budapest and Prague, since it was cheaper to fly from Prague to Manchester and take a train back to Edinburgh.