... the next morning. He drove his old Dacia as a shuttle between Curtea and Domnești, but had previous work experiences in Hungary, Austria and Italy as a builder. Having been abroad, he felt entitled to ...
... trails while they had work to attend to. Contrary to all expectation, I was received with great hospitality and invited to sit down, poured hot coffee, given exceptionally sweet grapes and a very salted ...
... booth, where an elderly woman supervised the working of the obsolete system.
From there it was only a short walk out of the workers' tenements to Sanahin monastery. The dark church was preceded by a ...
... was not working, I walked. A friend had warned me that without joining organised tours or hiring a driver I wouldn't have been able to reach many places of interest. Well, I am proud to say, at the end, ...
... cable car, the lady, who was already very disappointed for having to wait ages for a lift in Goris and eventually having to hire a taxi, nearly had a fit of nerves because it was not working on a Monday. ...
... colleagues involved, had no say. As a matter of fact, the work I had carried out since I have been at the Chamber of commerce has had little to do with my vocation, but I have put up for convenience's ...
... at work. I could always console myself thinking I could take a trip to where and when I decided, but somehow this was the end of an era. This tradition of mine dated back to quite a long time ago and it ...
... In the first building we found heaps of medical records scattered on the floor, mainly work certificates from the 1970's, of people who, according to their date of birth, could well be still alive. Then ...
... the daily routine had the advantage of letting me reconsider my inveterate attitudes towards people, things and work. I had been able to appreciate the importance of each in their absence, ponder the mistakes ...
... the walls were due to different sorts of natural stone panelling. There were interesting modern works of art on display, but I only gave the exhibit a perfunctory look because nothing would ever be able ...
... used to be a gym, and a modern-looking kitchen had been fitted into the former dancing room. True, even here things looked rather work in progress because there were electricians screwing light fixtures ...
... a quick shower before reaching his workplace, whereas I headed for the upstairs area of the train station and tried to organise my day.
The heat in that building was typical of many Russian indoor ...
... in the water. In a special area, a number of fitness machines were available for gymnasts. I worked out on a treadmill, then tried the overhead ladder, which had ascending and descending rungs, and nearly ...
... provision of financial means were a privilege bestowed by divine grace and not earned through material pursuits save the exploitation of other people's work. But here, right across from the former residence ...
... well settled in the Russian sphere of influence both politically and linguistically, turn to their former capital for more lucrative work possibilities. Some even come as tourists. But Moscow, in spite ...
... very ruins of the former Italian army headquarters. With a degree in Russian, my friend worked as an interpreter when the building was underway, but since then she has been going back to Rossosh every ...
... but stripped of their roofs, with crumbling walls and prey to fires that consumed their towering spires and burned priceless works of art to irrelevant ashes. Lübeck's hour had come. The raid left it in ...
... power houses, gasometers, the list was long. That architecture worked an uncanny effect on me: it talked of economic history, social implications, lifestyle, human suffering, disease, exploitation, wealth ...
... With ruthless fastidiousness every prisoner was photographed on the day of internment. Each portrait showed birth date, profession, and death date. I could quickly work out the age and the duration of ...
... the castle was requisitioned by the Nazis who turned it into one of bases of the cyclopean Project Riese. The mysterious scheme consisted in a network of underground tunnels dug by POW's and concentration ...