It is getting dark and there will be more bears now

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This is the entrance at the back of our host's garden. There is a stream a couple of hundred meters down the mountain path from there. I forgot a bucket near the stream and was going to go and get it but ran into our host's son at the back of the garden and he thought it would be better to bring the bucket back in the morning because "it is getting dark and there will be more bears now".

I still went and got the bucket. I worked in the City and definitely saw more bears than that Transylvanian boy. My last trade was part of a bearish strategy. And yes, "it is getting dark and there will be more bears now" is as true about the markets as it is about Transylvanian forests.

Comments

[found-world.livejournal.com]

It's really neat how you're able to visit the area. Your comment about it getting dark brought to mind some line from an old video game taking place in Transylvania: "What a terrible night for a curse!" It looks really pretty there.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am quite surprised how diverse and interesting Romania turned out to be. I now got involved in a couple of projects in Romania and Moldova (reforestation and waste disposal for rural areas) and will spend quite a lot of time traveling around the region this summer.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Grizzly bears or black bears? 

Wouldn't want to have a run in with a grizzly - They can get pretty big. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Brown bears. The Carpathian brown bear population of Romania is the largest in Europe. Running into one is no joke apparently.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Ah yes brown bears, I'd forgotten those. Running into any bear can be dangerous, even black bears can do considerable injury to someone.

Athena

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

You found me!! *hugs* I love that pic.. I like walking through forests.

[afrosnow.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. Your posts are very inspiring!

What kind of camera do you travel with?

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you.
I took this one with my phone, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, I use it a lot. The camera I use is Sony RX1.

[betawriter.livejournal.com]

Hah, nice joke!

Love the photo.

[real-marsel.livejournal.com]

I never saw bears.

[topum.livejournal.com]

They are awesome if you see them in the wild not in a zoo, they are miserable in zoos. They can be quite dangerous too. Russia has more bears than any other country in the world.
I saw them in Romania and of course in London, but those were a different kind: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bearmarket.asp and much less interesting.

[real-marsel.livejournal.com]

I would not want to meet a bear.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, meeting them probably isn't a good idea but watching them for a while is quite interesting.