Friday, time travels fast when you are having fun. The same goes when you are visiting mills. One thing we experienced today was, that the water running into the mill could also be used for a whirlpool. Imagine a washiing machine in your garden. It still exists in these parts of the world.

Again the mills looked similar, although all completely different. Every mill is an experience. Finding different constructions of waterwheels. A wooden wheel lasts for about twelve years, Yolt found out. I have to say that thanks to our fantastic Romanian speaking guides, we are able to comunicate with the local people coming to the mills, opening doors for us, and even washing a blanket in the whirlpool to demonstrate it still works.

Around lunch time the rain setted in, and we were “stuck” in the village hall for several hours, enjoying the speech of the maire. The maire, who has to be elected in Romania, worked before 2012 at the unemployment office. He is the kind of peoplesmaire, who was glad to answer all questions we had. The region is quite selfsupporting. People breed sheep and cows, work on their own lands, grow their own vegetables. An interesting point is that young people study English at the local schools, and when they go abroad to get a degree , they do comeback afterwards.

Driving back to the hotel, the weather has cooled down, the valleys look greener than ever, damp is rising from the pinewoods. A lot of conservation is going on regarding woods where the black pine is still alive. On a number of occasions we read on boards, that European money is involved.