The Beyond Journal

By Warren Singh-Bartlett Remember the legend of the Pied Piper? In 1284, the people of Hamelin, a town in the German province of Lower Saxony, hired a rat-catcher to help them with an infestation. Enchanting the rats with his music, the piper was able to lure them into a nearby river, drowning them. Possibly deciding […]

How to get up close to Europe’s magnificent megafauna If you want to see a bear in the wild in Europe, your best bet is to journey to the Carpathians. 60% of all the bears in Europe live in the region, along with wild boar, deer, foxes and other fascinating fauna like wolf and lynx. […]

By Warren Singh-Bartlett Hero or villain? History is full of people who can be viewed as either, depending on your perspective. Take Vlad III, the Wallachian prince known in Romanian as Vlad Tepeș, or Vlad the Impaler. Bloody sobriquet aside, to the Romanians and the Bulgarians, Vlad III is a hero, credited for having kept […]

Built many centuries ago, wooden churches in Romania are still sacred spaces for prayer in some villages. The collection below is just a snapshot of a lengthier study of the history and art behind them. All the images below have been obtained from NOI Media Print. The images appear in the book entitled “Wooden Churches […]

On a photo tour in the southwest region of Romania, we drove to Prisacina, a village lost in the Mehedinti Mountains. Nature and people amazed us with their purity and beauty.

We are all different from one another, we enjoy doing different activities, our preferences are not always the same, and we never see things in a similar way. But we all want to get to know the places we travel to, as well as to understand cultures and traditions.  To do that we must get […]