Posted in Religionon Feb 11, 2009
On my LDS mission in Romania, I visited a little fortress on top of a hill in a small town. In the fortress is this bell which has had several uses.
A few hundred years ago, the bell was rang to warn of attack. During the world wars, it rang for an air raid attack. Now it is used for more general emergencies such as a fire in the town.
When wandering through the fortress, there was a sign next to the bell indicating that it was only to be rung in emergencies, but other than that, there was nothing stopping me from pulling the cord and ringing the bell.
But I think the bell should be rung for other types of attacks and emergencies too. Perhaps it should ring for the economy, or perhaps it should ring to warn of attacks on the traditional family.
Posted in Adventureson Feb 4, 2009

Entrance Tickets
As I was digging through some of my old stuff, I came across these two entrance tickets to a couple of castles in Romania.
The green ticket on the left is for Peleş Castle, built between 1873 and 1883. The blue ticket on the right is for nearby smaller Pelişor Castle, built between 1899 to 1903. I visted these castles while on my church mission in Romania.
In comparison to many other castles, these were quite new, and I might find the word mansion more fitting for these buildings.
It is hard to see the price on these tickets, but the green one seems to say 60,000 lei, which would have been worth around 2 dollars at the time.
Now that I’ve blogged about these, I can throw them away and have just a little less clutter around.
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