The Culture Port Cetate (4,146 km)

(2023-06-14/15) The contrast between the starting and the destination point of my today‘s tour could not have been more striking. From the hip and noisy metropolis of Bucharest to the complete seclusion and tranquility of the Culture Port Cetate on the Danube; opposite is Bulgaria. This refuge for literary figures, artists, journalists - and today also for me - was created by Mircea Dinescu. He is one of the most prominent Romanian writers, journalists and civil rights activists. He is also the one who announced the fall of the Ceaușescu dictatorship from the balcony of the Presidential Palace on December 22, 1989. The Culture Port is his passion, you can't get rich from it. In Bucharest's old town, Mircea Dinescu runs the fine restaurant "Lacrimi și Sfinți" [Tears and Saints] and experiments with traditional Romanian cuisine; from that you can very well become rich and famous, but that he was already before!

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