No 56k: The Cluj-Napoca photo thread (56k get on a plane and fly over here)

[vikiradTG2007]

Well... I went for a long walk and took my D40 with me. And photographed quite a few things along the way...



This one was actually taken a couple of days ago from my window.






A roundabout about 150 m from where I live... and a lot of cars parked in that area.



This street has just undergone repairs, because there is a lot of heavy traffic on it and the asphalt gets grooved in less than 3 months every time they fix it.



Apartment blocks... and a children's playground.



One of the two major shopping centers in Cluj-Napoca. This one is about 5 minutes away from me.



Nothing... and a few parked cars.




Two colleges from different universities teaching the same thing. Plus a couple of places to stay for students that aren't from the city.



Well, well, well... what do we have here? Have Jezza's donkeys escaped and travelled by plane to Romania?




A busy crossroad at the end of a busy street...



A major library.





The center of the Mărăşti area of Cluj-Napoca.





Going through that area now...




... just to come across a DB9 on a tow truck, parked at the side of the road...





... and while walking the distance of another bus stop...



... a McMerc SLR passes by. I've seen this car parked, at times, close to where I live.








The building which houses my high school. From what I know, it's the oldest school building in Cluj-Napoca.



A very Romanian traffic jam...




Buses... and elderly people waiting for them.



Pigeons!!!!




A Romanian hero: Mihai Viteazul/Michael the Brave, the first man to unite Romania as a whole in 1600, although it only lasted a single year and he was killed a year later.



Another memorial, dedicated, as I recall, to the victims of the anti-Communist revolution in December 1989.





A very busy area of the city... and filled with buildings belonging to banks.



The Roman-Catholic cathedral, an example of Gothic architecture, and also the tallest building in Cluj-Napoca.



Romanian flags... probably the only thing done by the previous mayor of the city, the ultra-nationalist Gheorghe Funar.



This area is the heart of the biggest university in Cluj-Napoca, the Babeş-Bolyai University.




And this is the "HQ" building of the university.





The statue of another hero of Romanians in this area, one of the figureheads of the revolution in 1848: Avram Iancu. In fact, the whole square is named after him.



The Orthodox Cathedral. I do go there to pray... sometimes...




Another old-style building...



... and a mix of styles packed together.



The National Theater and Opera...



... and the Cluj-Napoca Court of Appeal.



Just another 500+bhp ugly SUV...





The "boulevard" which I use in order to go to school...





Another roundabout...



Great news! The Dacia Sandero is on the road and popping up like mushrooms!




Same street...



Another church...



... and the apartment block where I currently live.



Whew, that was quite a sweat... including resizing all the photos and processing each of them a bit...

What do you think?

[47]

hm...that's...a lot of photos

[avanti]

nice donkey! my uncle had a Renault 12 once upon a time... (6th pic from the bottom.)

[vikiradTG2007]

Originally Posted by avanti

nice donkey! my uncle had a Renault 12 once upon a time... (6th pic from the bottom.)

That's not exactly a Renault 12... it's actually the Dacia 1310, which is basically the same thing, only re-badged and produced in Romania. For too long...

[Ironlord]

Third picture from the bottom: what's CJ32PRV? Is that a Romanian in-house model that I've missed? I'm aware of just about everything Dacia's ever made, and the Oltcit, but it's neither of those...

I remember reading about some nasty, basic machine that was even cheaper than an Oltcit, and found some pictures of it somewhere, but I can't believe that ever had five doors...

EDIT: it's the Lăstun I'm thinking of, and it's not one of them. On further thoughts, this looks like a Daihatsu of some description.

And James May might joke about it, but Dacia look to have done a fine job with the Sandero. I'd rather have one of those than anything from Malaysia, or most of the Koreans...

[vikiradTG2007]

It's a Daewoo Tico.

[Ironlord]

Originally Posted by vikiradTG2007

It's a Daewoo Tico.

Aaaarrrrrg, the beast!

Those never made it to the UK. Can't say I'm too disappointed.

[Cold Fussion]

A lot of them look very saturated.

[mitza4rally]

Ha! the second and third photos r made in front of my girlfriend`s buiding, on Titulescu streat.