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Originally Posted by Doug Taylor  The locals are friendly, but there were two things that I thought were of note.
It's still got a communist mentality to a certain extent and the whole capitalism thing with the expectations of 'wealthy tourists' are concepts they quite haven't figured out yet -- IE 5 euro for a pitcher of wine in Paris doesn't neccessarily mean that we'd pay the equivalent of 15 euro for a glass of bad Romanian wine.
I think once they get their crap together, it might be a more interesting visit, but if you travel there, be very careful when money starts changing hands. |
I've heard that as well Doug - a bit of the gypsy mentality going on there as well.