A few days ago I received a friend's visit. Many years ago we used to go to the sea together, a group of more friends. Trying to remember more of those times, we looked at the few remaining photos.
I want to follow @melinda010100's example and bring some memories to you. This is part of the #sam-saturday challenge. Before launching this challenge, I was thinking of another challenge, something like this: Every picture tells a story. What I post today can be framed in both themes ... what memories we have when looking at the old photographs.
When I started to look at the old photos, things happened and images from those holidays started to appear in front of my eyes. Incredible. It was like yesterday.
Vama Veche( Old Customs)- a small village of fishermen
A small seaside village, a fishing village just two kilometers from the border with Bulgaria. Famous for his beach. The favorite place for holidays in the communist period of Romania, for artists and intellectuals. Deserted beach, lack of hotels and restaurants, lack of agitation specific to the resorts. These were the reasons why they chose to spend the summer in this place.
There is a band called Vama Veche. Voice leader Tudor Chirila is in love with that place. The song is also called Vama Veche.
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There was something else that made this place special ... one of the few places where nudism could be done!
Well, my friends and I discovered this place in the late 80's. Equally special, just a little more crowded. Still free to nudism, in fact it was free, I felt freedom! There were no areas delimited on the beach for nudists and for those ... dressed. We were all mixed up without bothering each other.
After years and years of walking in the classical and crowded resorts we were taken to Vama Veche by our new friends, rock singers, members of a band called the Roata. We went there for almost ten consecutive years. They were the most beautiful holidays in our youth.
If you want to listen to their song called "What will it be?". It was a couple of years when we were almost always together, then the band broke up. With two of the band we are good friends and now after more than thirty years.
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In Vama Veche we lived in the village, rented a house and we were together all the time.
From morning till night I stood on the beach, bathing in the sea.
At noon, we took a 4 km walk along the cliff to a neighboring town called 2 Mai where we could find places to eat. In these walks I took the pictures you see below.
I hope you do not laugh at my hair. We were barely escaped by an oppressive and communist regime, we felt the need for some freedom ... that we also express in that way. In the two pictures, my wife, my son Alexandru (happy that he was there) and Elena, the band's soloist, you can hear her in the video above.
Memories, memories generated only by a few photos I rarely look at. I feel like I suddenly rejuvenated, it made me great pleasure to remind myself of those moments.
A small comparison!
1990
2018
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There's a little change, isn't it?
Vama Veche now
Now Vama Veche has changed radically. Freedom and non-conformist memories have attracted many young people in the early part of the 2000s, especially students living in beach tents. Then slowly, slowly the place was occupied by those with many money ... there were built hotels and many terraces, restaurants. It has become extremely crowded and expensive ... it's no longer our favorite place. That's what Vama Veche now looks like
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In the following years we went to the sea in Bulgaria. More beautiful, much cheaper places. On the way to the border we go through the Vama Veche every time. The heart grows and we have the nostalgia of the beautiful years of youth.
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