Leftie

Yesterday after a lovely lunch, I was treated to a walking tour of Romania by one of Maria's best friends, Ioana. Ioana has been trained as a tour guide and has a PHD in propaganda, so her tour was extremely informative. The Romanian history is so rich and interesting, just in the last 100 years, they have had a monarchy (which they chose from Germany as they felt they needed one to help rule), Communism (forced upon them after WW2, but actually at first grew very quickly in popularity), and now in theory a democracy (in practice, possibly debatable). She had so many interesting facts and cleared up so many misconceptions I had about life under on a Communist regime (at least in Romania). She really was very objective about the reality then and the reality now, discussing the pros and cons of all systems. I learnt so much and just find the history very fascinating. And I am still as left as ever (which of course does not mean I believe in Communism at all)!

Then ladies to lunch :)