Tag 654, Cogealac Rumänien / War früher alles besser? Wandern und lernen

A farmer and a story I hadn't expected. He placed food in front of me before I even asked. Then he began to tell me about Ceaușescu, about the era that most people here describe only as a nightmare. But then he said something that made me stop and think: "Back then, you used the whole animal. Nothing was wasted. Now the EU comes along and tells me what I'm allowed to do with my own livestock." I don't want to misunderstand this. Dictatorships are dictatorships. What happened here was real and cruel. But this man showed me that truth rarely has just one color. That even in the darkest systems, things existed that we have quietly lost. Knowledge. Skills. The feeling that nothing dies in vain. Overregulation from Brussels turns this into bureaucracy today, and a farmer into a criminal for using an animal the way his family has done for generations. You can learn something while hiking, somewhere on a country road in Romania.