country life!

This is a common scene in Romania and one of the things we like about living here. Sure when you go into town you could be in any European city (though personally we think it's nicer than most!) but outside the city it's still a mainly rural society and most people grow all their own vegetables, keep a few pigs and chickens or even a few sheep which they leave in the care of a local shepherd. We do manage to grow our own veg, albeit with the help of our good friend Mariana - she's a total expert, her garden has to be seen to be believed! We haven't ventured into keeping pigs (too smelly) although we did have chickens, ducks and geese for a couple of years. We enjoyed the fresh eggs but never quite had the heart to actually eat the birds ... our neighbours clearly thought we were crazy and one even asked us "what are you going to do with them then, keep then until they draw a pension?"