Friday 11 April 2008

Nothing's changed (2)

Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, is described by Prince Urosov, who was made governor there in 1903 as being a city of two parts; with buildings which 'would have made no unfavourable impression even in the streets of St Petersburg' on top of the hill, and a world of narrow and unpaved winding streets, muddy in the spring and dusty in the summer, ....of pigs and cows grazing in the alleys, at the bottom of the hill.

105 years on, it's still exactly the same, or it was last year.

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