V Day in Transnistria and first cherries

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We had fresh cherries straight from the tree of our hosts' neighbours today. First cherries in the village were ready to eat on the 5th of May this year.

We are trying to see if we could go to the self-proclaimed break-away Transnistria Republic for the V Day military parade there on the 9th. It is one of the last "Soviet Union" enclaves and we are told that the V Day celebrations there are done in true Soviet style and are very interesting to see. And I am a sucker for self-proclamed, break-away, closed, frozen in time and weird places of course. The parade in Tiraspol, the Transnistrian capital will be very pro-Russian we are told, in contrast with the official parade in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, which this year will be a joined affair with the US. Pro-Russian protests are expected in Chisinau against the participation of the US in the parade and pro-West protests are expected in Tiraspol against the Russians apparently. The grass is always greener on the other side of Nistru (the river which separates Transnistria from the rest of Moldova) it seems.

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[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

I bet those cherries were good. Nothing like fresh off the tree cherries. Of course I've never had fresh cherries off a tree unless you count choke cherries but those are quite bitter. I've had fresh blue berries off the bush though, they grow abundant around my dad's place, I used to go berry picking alot when I was younger.

Transnistria sounds interesting.

Athena

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I've only heard of Transnistria, heard practically nothing about it.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are early cherries! Around here it's still cherry-blossom time... But I suppose that Moldova is in that area that's full of amazing orchards..

Transnistria sounds fascinating. You are definitely educating me about these places! I just looked up whether Moldova is counted as 'Eastern Europe', and was alarmed to discover that a term that you hear used so often has such widely varying definitions!

[real-marsel.livejournal.com]

Is cherry sweet?