theonearmedcrab.com
first-hand travel experiences and impressions of travel destinations
  • Home
  • About Us
  • What’s New?
  • The Arts
    • The Paintings
    • The Photos
    • The Library
    • The Gallery
    • The Attic
  • The Travels
    • The Locations
    • The Articles
    • The Blogs
  • The Map
    • Arab Peninsula
      • Qatar
      • Oman
    • Caucasus
      • blog: Travel in the Caucasus
      • Azerbaijan
      • Georgia
    • Central Asia
      • blog: Travel in the ‘Stans’
      • Uzbekistan
      • Kyrgyzstan
      • Kazakhstan
      • Tajikistan
      • article (NL): De Pamir Highway
    • China
      • blog: The Silk Road
      • blog: Through Tibet
      • article (NL): Sichuan en de Three Gorges
      • article: Guilin to Guiyang
      • article: Yunnan
    • Egypt
    • Ethiopia
      • Historical Ethiopia
      • South Ethiopia
      • The Ethiopian Desert
      • article: Ethnic Minorities
    • Haiti
      • blog: the Haiti Diaries
      • blog: Back to Haiti
    • India
      • article: The Road to Ladakh
      • article: Tamil Nadu after the Tsunami
      • article: Tamil Nadu: Four months after
    • Indonesia
      • blog: The Aceh Diaries
      • blog: Travel in Indonesia
      • Sumatra
      • Java
      • Pulau Madura
      • Sulawesi
      • Kalimantan
      • Sumba
      • Flores
      • article: Berestagi to Bukittinggi
      • article: Labuanbaju to Larantuka
    • Iran
      • blog: Travel in Iran
      • article (NL): Ashura: rouwen om de Imam in Iran
    • Italy
      • Northern Italy
      • Sicily
      • San Marino
    • Jordan
    • Latin America
      • blog: Travel along the Costa Pacifico
      • Argentina
      • Chile
      • Guatemala
      • Mexico
      • Peru
      • Uruguay
      • article (NL): De Argentijnse Altiplano: van Stierenvechters en Indianen
    • Lebanon
      • blog: In Lebanon
      • artcile (NL): Libanon, een Land van Tegenstellingen
    • Nepal
    • Papua New Guinea
    • SE Asia – Mainland
      • blog: Travel in South East Asia
      • Myanmar
      • Laos
      • Cambodia
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
    • SE Europe
      • blog: Travel in Romania & Bulgaria
      • blog: Travel in the Czech Republic
      • Bulgaria
      • Romania
      • Moldova
      • Czech Republic
      • Albania
      • Croatia
      • Macedonia
    • Somalia
      • article (NL): Somaliland, Het Land Dat Eigenlijk Geen Land Is
    • Turkey
  • The Rest
  • Contact

34. Maramures

Blog entries
Perhaps one of the most beautiful regions of Romania, Maramures has lots of attractions, from churches and cemeteries to wooden villages
[Continue Reading...]

Sucevita Monastery

Blog entries, Locations
The Sucevita Monastery, the fourth and biggest of the big four in Bucovina, is slightly younger, and has somewhat more varied frescos, many beautifully executed
[Continue Reading...]

Moldovita Monastery

Blog entries, Locations
The Moldovita Monastery is the third of the big four, and contains my favourite, the Siege of Constantinople fresco
[Continue Reading...]

Voronet Monastery

Blog entries, Locations
Voronet Monastery, painted in Voronet-blue, contains one of the most famous external frescoes of all Bucovina Monasteries, and there is a look inside, too
[Continue Reading...]

Humor Monastery

Blog entries, Locations
the church of the Humor Monastery in Bucovina, with its fabulous outside frescoes
[Continue Reading...]

33. the painted monasteries of Bucovina

Blog entries
The brilliantly painted monasteries of Bucovina, in Northern Romania, have been remarkably well preserved, despite a long history.
[Continue Reading...]

32. to Bucovina

Blog entries
Even after three weeks Romania we still encounter new forms of housing, including those with metal roofs and with car windows, on our way to Suceava
[Continue Reading...]

31. Bicaz & Ceahlau

Blog entries
Romanian natural beauty is well-represented in the Eastern Carpathians, but so is the local tourist industry
[Continue Reading...]

28. an industrial heritage

Blog entries
By now you know about my obsession with decrepit factories and with ‘palatis’, in reality called ‘blocks’, here, but ‘palati’ is a much nicer word. A view of Iasi's industrial complex.
[Continue Reading...]

27. Iasi

Blog entries
One of Romania's biggest towns and its surroundings, with an inside view
[Continue Reading...]
  • ← Previous Entries
  • Next Entries →

  • RSS Feed RSS - Posts

  • The 20 Latest Entries to this Site

    • The Peggy Guggenheim Collection December 19, 2020
    • Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice December 17, 2020
    • Museo di Castelvecchio November 30, 2020
    • What’s new? November 25, 2020
    • 13. looking back on Italy November 23, 2020
    • 12. Tuscany November 22, 2020
    • 11. Florence November 18, 2020
    • 10. San Marino November 13, 2020
    • 09. Ravenna November 12, 2020
    • 08. another day outside Padua November 11, 2020
    • 07. Vicenza November 8, 2020
    • 06. outside Padua October 31, 2020
    • 05. Padua October 30, 2020
    • 04. Venice October 17, 2020
    • 03. Verona October 12, 2020
    • 02. Valpolicella October 9, 2020
    • 01. the first Italy plan October 5, 2020
    • 19. looking back at the Czech Republic September 18, 2020
    • 18. Theresienstadt September 16, 2020
    • 17. North Bohemia: Liberec and Litomerice September 9, 2020

  • Translate


    Nederlands
    French
    German

    Italian
    Spanish
    Russian

    Chinese
    Portugese
    Indonesian

  • The Categories

    • The Locations
    • The Articles
    • The Blogs
    • The Photos
    • The Paintings
    • The Attic
    • The Art Galleries
    • The Book Reviews
    • The Travel tips
  • Trento
  • Northern Italy
  • Sicily
Build a website with PageLines