I had my childhood Summares in Transylvania. My classmates thought it was outside the show where I went to Dracula, Bats and Vampires for six weeks.
Transylvania was a magical place for me, but no mythical reason – Because I’m Daddy.
He was 97 years old and I went to be with him.
I would travel in a small way that accompanied
My adventure began from the moment I left my house in the north of London. I was flying myself in British Airways from the age of 7 Unaccompanied Small Plan the capital of Romania Bucharest in the airport to meet with me. We will take a long night train in the unofficial capital of the Transylvania region.
The strikes were full of parking lots, where I will swing in the monkey bars until I am from my hands. We climbed the cetatuia hill we look at the whole city and pointed out historical places. One summer, on the shore of some coasts, we found a patch from the four-leaved hives we have chosen and pressed a notebook to a press.
My grandfather was designer designated in the national opera and had He used his whole career under communism. After retiring in the late 1980s, Romanian village and folklore have begun a statement of oil painting. The studio in the Cluj Center was his sacred creative space; I would have to draw me there to paint the black cat we will save me for a year, while playing with Rascal.
Our assignments did not end with my childhood. Last year, when he was 96 years old We toured Romania’s last forestry Steam train up to the Carpathian mountains. The train operates as a tourist line, and along with the 20-year-old walking trains behind the 20-year-old rides in the 20-year-old ride to go to distant fishing spots, he said.
Had a shot
When fought At the end of last year, he could not live blind in one eye and can’t live completely independently, the bride and take care of him. Six weeks later my boyfriend and I gathered our lives and moved to Europe. The ability to do this was expedited by a partner who wants to do this trip with me.
My life seems different now. Every afternoon, I walk 10 minutes for him from the former communist block and go for a walk together. Unable to drive a lot to the end of the street and back. In some days, we are entering the grocery store, where they take the milk, bread and climbers, sitting on the window board next to the corridor and waiting. I go to the doctor’s room once a month collecting a prescription Carry along the way to fill in the pharmacy.
I tell people that I will look at my grandfather, though. I think I’m worried about the label because I make me face a reality I’m not going to accept – I’m not a child who is not a child who is already protecting.
Our attitude came complete circle
A family friend recently told me that when I had his grandfather, his memory was always the serious way. I did what I did for me too. Any child survey was performed. You can reject as a grandfather like a grandfather that spoils his grandson. But this is my grandfather – it understands that it means to completely enter the world to respect a child. Now I try to do the same with him with him.
This recently asked a calendar, especially a religious believer he sold the Orthodox Church. I did not ask him to write. Instead, I went to the cathedral in the city center, I would take my grandmother to burn me to the candle and took a pocket diary from the priest.
Our attitude came complete circle. The smallest love acts – take a calendar, walk to the end of the street – once bears the same emotional weight as large childhood expeditions.
My grandfather and I still take our secret assignments, but now they look a little different. I took him to his studio on the 97th birthday – something he could not have since his shot. I slipped the car around the backput, I support the narrow roadway to steps. There were glittering lights around the creepy staircase, which remains a while. After entering the studio, he sat in a socking chair and looked at the boxes of canvas, paintings and fat colors. “We did it,” I said. “It was an adventure,” he replied.
