Tag: Kishinev

All Abroad the Fail Wheel: Visiting the Chisinau Amusement Park with My Cousin.

Sunday my cousin and I went to the local amusement park. We’ve been planning to go for years, but something always got in the way.

Our main destination was the Ferris wheel. A tiny metal construction compared to all the well-known monsters, but an exciting prospect nonetheless.

 

I’ve been told it’s as tall as a 5-floor building. Somewhere else I read that it’s as tall as a 12-floor one. I don’t know. How tall is a single floor on said hypothetical buildings? The information about this ferris wheel in Ukraine (that looks suspiciously similar to the one in Kishinev) says it’s 35 m tall.

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An Event in Honour of the Holocaust Survivors.

Back in April (12th, to be exact) I attended an event held to honour the survivors of the Holocaust. It included an art exhibition, a concert, and a speech by one of the survivors. Music for the songs performed was composed by Daniel Dobias, a Czech composer. Song lyrics were poems written by the children who lived in Terezin. The artwork was by Helga Weissova-Hoshkova. And finally, the speech was given by Dagmar Shimova. She is one of the children saved by Nicolas Winton. You can read a better summary of the event here.

I took some pictures (as one does). They have little artistic merit, but I like to post my records anyway.  Under the cut are 7 more photos.

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