Wednesday, October 01, 2008

First catch your pig...

I've spent the last two days looking at some of the things that LAGs ( Leader action Groups) have done in Scotland. The idea was that I would be able to take some of their ideas back to Romania.
Unfortunately, the problems here are not the problems there.
I would mention three projects in particular.
The first was an inter-village bus service. They already exist in Romania - it's the only way for most people to travel about, so the buses are mostly full and are therefore cheap & frequent.
The second was a sort of pig experience. Not quite a city farm, money had been given so that children could find out about pigs. Romanians would laugh at this. Every family - even most of those that live in the city - have a pig stashed away somewhere.
Finally, one that just might get the nod. A project was put together to have horse riding trails marked out, with specified stops for overnight accommodation, both for riders and horses. Romania could do with this from a tourism point of view, but at the moment there are so many other things that need doing, I think it unlikely this will get done in the short term.
You never know, though.

4 comments:

Whispering Walls said...

What about the Transylvania-Chelsea match?

kinglear said...

WW - draw

Whispering Walls said...

Yes but that was a result for the vampires!

kinglear said...

ww - I can get you into the directors box anytime you want.....