There is a small village in the south of Romania, near Alexandria. This is where I spent my summers as a child and where I often escape from city rush to relax.
Kind, simple people living their lives away from stress, from policy, from corporations, focusing on agriculture, for the most part they are autonomous. These people only rely on weather, being so closed to nature. They still feel the time flying slowly.
Let's focus on still. There's a realistic, objective, interwar novel called "Ion" (John) based on Romanian peasant's condition after World War One. At the end of the fiction, there's a phrase like "World War Two was beginning; time was no longer patient" highlighting the upcoming evolution. The picturesque landscape may be seen as well today, after 100 years.
Anyway, this lifestyle has its advantages. Being a small community, they are more likely to be closed to each other. Their activities includes more communication, more time around family and closed friendships with neighbors.
Also there are advantages regarding their health because they spend a lot of time outside breathing fresh air, without exercising or sport need for they have an increased physical activity raising animals and cultivating plants. It's their choice either to grow an orchard or vegetables and they do it in their own way.
Either is a peach or a corn plantation, " Eco/ bio" aliments consumption is a routine here. Its reflection on their health can be seen as a life expectancy at 75 years. (In this case I avoid to talk about smoking and such risk factors because they are ubiquitous.)
I am fascinated about this white aubergine.
Barbecue
This is just hot season activity. Women often spend winters crafting clothes and home decorations. In these photos there's something that we call "mileu".
Pure nature making people live their lives peacefully, flowers, a small snail after a summer rain, such relaxing!
Population here is old and there is a decreasing number of young people willing to live like this. It's a pity to abandon this treasure...