Every year on the first September weekend the potters' fair is held in the center of Sibiu. Do we like it? Sure. Well, correction, actually it depends. If you're a hausfrau and you need a new pot to make sarmale* or chicken in the oven you might go and find something useful. If you have a guest house and you want to decorate it traditionally then you're also bound to find something suitable. If you're a redneck then it's probably the closest to heaven you'll ever gonna get. If you're into "paisanesque" stuff then you can find an authentic carpet or a cuc** that tweets. If you're a pick pocket then it's like the Medieval Festival reloaded - a crowd of people not paying attention to their mobile phones and wallets.
Speaking of the Medieval Festival, that's something else I don't quite get - only because we have an ancient city and town walls well preserved we should dress with capes, look at silly sword fights and listen to medieval music? Same music every year, they don't compose songs for mandolin like they used to...
For me, the movie Ghost was the only time pottery made sense - and I was quite young back then. Now, when I see all those pots aligned on the ground I wish I had a bowling ball and a pile of cash without a cause.
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*sarmale = sarmale :)
**cuc = cuckoo
