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All the trips I've taken over the years. Some far, some near.

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Visiting Romania: The Black Sea

Fun fact about me: until this year, I've never been to the Black Sea for touristy, sun bathing and relaxing purposes. I've been there 3 times before: the first time in an April, for a Math Olympiad, when it was cold, the second time in a February, for a Physics

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Sweating in Hong Kong

At the beginning of the year, a dear brother and good friend, whom I met in New York, invited me to his wedding which was going to be in Hong Kong. What better excuse to go to visit "China" than going for a wedding? This also made the decision of

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Let's go to Africa

Because of work, I couldn't take a long, proper vacation right after our wedding, so we decided that after some deadlines at the beginning of September, we would do a nice, two week honeymoon. Given that I love flying and I need the frequent flier miles, while my wife was

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Around Europe with my wifey

This reminds me of the singing lion. My wife has never been outside of Romania before this year, so I thought I would use this summer to fix that by traveling around as much as possible. Right after our wedding, we went for a short, one week, roadtrip honeymoon around

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Istanbul, land of turbans, spice and carpets

This is the land of cheap layovers on the way to Romania. Thanks to the invisible hand of the market, tickets to the airports that are close to where my fiancee lives were 50% cheaper when flying through Istanbul, with an overnight layover, than more direct flights. It was still

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Shalom from Israel

Three jeeps, filled with mostly young and idealistic Westerners and driven by former Special Forces members, are going along the mine fields between Syria and Israel. They arrive to an abandoned Syrian hospital, with some soldiers in front of it. They go up to the rooftop, through the crumbling hospital,

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Maltalavista

Last week I was in Malta, on an offsite with the new (extended) team. It was possibly even better than in Nice. Because I switched to this team "late", I couldn't find flights together with the rest of the team, so I went a day early, but I stayed at

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Nice time in Nice

Because I had such a good time in Paris last month [https://rolisz.ro/2016/05/24/paris-revisited/], I just had to go again to France, this time to the French Riviera, to hear the beautiful French language again :X:X. Or maybe it was just an SRE offsite.

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Paris Revisited

After feeling a bit down under at home, I decided to go places again. Because I haven't seen my good friend Alida in a long time, I decided to go to Paris again. And this time not just for an afternoon. It made me feel un­com­fort­ably excited

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Revisiting Romania

It's that time of the year again when the Easter Bunny I visit Romania. History likes to repeat [https://rolisz.ro/2015/04/15/visiting-romania/] itself, but there are changes. First change, which I welcome with open arms (and mouth), is that they have good orange juice in Romania.

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New York Again

After Mountain View, I went to Memphis to visit some dear friends from a fellowship there. Because of this, I spent most of my time meeting with lots of people, so I didn't really get to see too many places, so no post about Memphis. One remark though: Memphis pork

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Alcatraz

This year started off well, with another trip to the USA, on a business trip to Mountain View. One of the things that I missed last time I was in San Francisco was Alcatraz. When I arrived there I realized that you need to buy tickets several weeks in advance,

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BAP

In September I went to Belgium to work in a Google datacenter, near Mons, for two weeks. I took the op­por­tu­ni­ty and used the three weekends to wander around and visit a lot of places, including three capitals: Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris (hence the title of

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San Francisco and the so called Mountain View

Alcatraz, where my childhood favorite movie was set, The Rock After a week in New York and another one in hot, humid Richmond, where I had a very blessed time due to who was there, I finally arrived to the official des­ti­na­tion of my trip: Mountain View,

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The Big Apple

The Big Apple. New York. The greatest city in the world, as every tour guide in the city will tell you every 5 minutes. I went for a business trip to the USA, to Mountain View, California, but before that I took two weeks of vacation: one in New York

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Trip to Dublin

A month ago there was the first ever SRECon in Europe. It got together lots of SRE-like engineers (basically the people who are re­spon­si­ble for the software that is live, running in production) from Google (the host of the event), Facebook, Etsy, Splunk, SoundCloud and others.  Because

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Weekend in London

I was oncall the week that ended in the long weekend of the 1st of May. It was a rainy weekend and I had to stay inside the house, during my shift, but because it was rainy, it wasn't very tempting to go outside even after it. So I decided

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Trip to Geneva: part 2

On my second day in Geneva, after waking up quite late, Cipri, Alexandra and I went to the Geneva In­ter­na­tion­al Inventions Exhibition. It is quite large exhibition, having 790 inventions, from 45 countries, displayed on 8900 m^2 surface. It wasn't entirely what I expected. It

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Trip to Geneva: part 1

Last weekend I went to Geneva, to visit Ciprian, a friend who is doing an internship at CERN. He also happens to be a frequent reader of my blog :D. Before joining the dark computer science side, I was a wannabe physicist. I went to lots of physics com­pe­

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Visiting Romania

During the Catholic Easter holidays, I went to Romania for a one week visit. Initially the plan was that my parents would come and visit me, but I had more days off, so I ended up coming to my homeland. After having been in Switzer­land for 7 months now,

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Delta Dunării

Săptămâna trecută am avut pentru prima oară ocazia să merg la Tulcea și în Delta Dunării. And it was awesome. Tot mai mult îs convins că România îi o țară faină (din punct de vedere geografic). Pe Deltă am mers cu o barcă închiriată de la Amatour, timp de 8

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Roland: Origins

Dacă tot sunt la modă filmele care prezintă originile per­son­ajelor (mai ales din superhero comics), am decis să vizitez și eu satul bunicilor mei (de pe linia maternă), Benești din județul Sibiu. Am mai fost acolo... acum vreo 15 ani, dar pe atunci nu aveam nici blog și

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Sibiu, fosta capitală culturală europeană

Ca aproape în fiecare an, și vara aceasta am venit la bunicii mei din Sibiu. Cum deja de 19 ani tot vin aici, I'm not really impressed by the city anymore (deși, da, probabil este printre cele mai bine amenajate orașe istorice din țară, maybe datorită primarului „sas” care este

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Polonia

Weekendul acesta am fost în Polonia, într-o excursie organizată de profa de istorie. Elevii au fost doar jumate din par­tic­i­panți, restul fiind profesori și partenerii lor de viață. Plecarea a fost sâmbătă la 2:45. Am lua decizia genială de a sta treaz până atunci, zicând că