FROM THE "ROAD NOTES OF MAVEN": WELCOME TO TRANSILvania! PRISLOP PASS

nobody@flickr.com (mavenimagery®) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:23:03 -0700

Welcome To Trasilvania

The beginning

The V8 Turbocharged 420 horse power engine of the luxury Audi TT RS4 coupe came to life with a gracious explosion when I turned the key. The gentle sounds of four hundreds and twenty horses of orchestra under the hood, each with different instrument, playing Gioacchino Rossini’s - The Barber of Seville, Overtur. A thirty minutes nap can be rejuvenating even after driving hundreds of kilometers on high top Eastern Carpathians’ passes that was very short and consisting of steep slopes to the top of the pass, or valleys of many kilometers, whose highest point is only identifiable by mapping out. After inexpicable winding through curves of the Prislop Pass, the rectangular placard bearing the legend (the land of mystery; Bram Stoker wrote his gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, using Transylvania as a setting. With the success of the later work, Transylvania became associated in the English-speaking world with vampires, however, I wish it were Vampires whom I’ll deal with instead of human nature and greed; blood lust beyond the lust of blood of fictional Vampire; cruelty and viciousness beyond the imagination of Bram Stoker’s or any inhuman brutality. I wouldn’t know for sure why Bram Stoker wrote his gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, using Transylvania as a setting, or of Emily Gerard's The Land Beyond the Forest? But I’m sure they’ve had witnessed, heard or got hold of some documented archives that inspired them to set their stories in this wicked place. Where there is a smoke there is a fire!) Welcome To Transilvania: population 7,221,733 in English, Ardeal in Romanian, and Siebenbürgen in German), slides into view.

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...WILL BE CONTINUED

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FROM THE "ROAD NOTES OF MAVEN": WELCOME TO TRANSILvania! PRISLOP PASS