This must be the best year of my life!

 It's the middle of February and this is the first post I'm writing on this blog, you might be wondering why that is the case. Well, these past few weeks have been some of the most successful weeks in my entire life until this point. I got a 7,80 at mathematics (which is basically a B+ for those of you Americans), our history teacher got replaced with one of the best teachers in our school, and many more good things happened which I can't really describe right now...

Anyways! Let's start with the first one! So, the 7,80 at math. When I saw the test being handed to me with that grade written on it I thought I was dreaming, but no, it was real. Now the 3rd subject (the final part of the test) it was... incomplete... but at least the first 2 subjects I got 100% of the grade (which is basically a 6). This grade really gave me motivation that in June when the final test is, which will decide my future high school, I will get the same or maybe even more.

Now onto the next topic, the history teacher! He is one of the best teachers that ever walked on our school hallways. Why am I saying this? Because the way he explained the first lesson and the way he introduced himself, must be a gift directly from god. Now I will give very little detail about him just to create a little bit of background around himself, he has 2 jobs (the second one is the more interesting one) and he was even in The United States of America trough a program which allows European students to study during high school in America. Which just thinking about it, is super awesome! Now again, I will not get into details, but the way he told us it seems that you Americans have a much better school system (ignoring the whole school shooting stuff) than the one we have here in Romania. It's not even comparable on how better it is!

Anyways! I hope that he will never change and that we would have a smooth school year!

Now to end this post, I will just be saying that of everything goes according to plan. This summer will be the craziest one ever on my blog, wiki, YouTube channel, and also Bluesky (maybe).

Yes, I do have other social medias other than my YouTube channel and my blog! 

My cat just died today...

 Since the last post, we in the family decided that maybe our cat had one more chance at surviving. That being with the help of a surgery.

On 28th of January 2026 (today) my mom took her to the surgeon at around 2 PM. During the surgery, Sisi hearth stopped beating, which resulted into the cat dying in the process. When my mom arrived home at around 6 PM I was expecting to see Sisi in her hands, but there was nothing. Then I realized that the worst had happen, Sisi died. I wasen't expecting that Sisi would die, even though it would happen eventually.

As my mom told me, both of her kidneys were affected, with one of them being completely solidified. Besides the kidneys, her intestines were affected as well, but not so bad as the kidneys were. After I heard the news, I started crying. Sisi was a cat that could never been replaced by anything in this world. Not even by another cat.

Now the house is much lonelier... When Sisi was still alive she would welcome each and one of us home. Now that it became a norm for us to have someone waiting at home, it will be hard to forget about her. Especially all of the moments when we played with her, slept with her, and all kinds of stuff.

Sorry if this post was too short, but this thing just happened a cople of hours ago and I'm still suffering from it. So, I will end this post with the fallowing words: Welterusten Sisi!

Now you may rest in peace in a better world.
March 2024 - 28th of January 2026

My cat will be dead by Sunday...

 My cat, or technically our cat (because it's the family's cat), has just been officially diagnosed with a form of cancer named "Lymphoma".

After this news came, we've decided to put it to sleep by Saturday, so that she would not be going through this pain anymore. Even if we decided to let it live, it would result in the same way, dying just a couple of months into the future.

If you didn’t pick the main topic by now, this post will be entirely dedicated to Sisi. The family cat which will sadly die in a few days.

We picked up Sisi in August of 2024 from the streets of a village. She had a huge bubble underneath her mouth filled with God knows what. We took her in custody planning to keep her for a few days only until her irritation or what it goes away. But those few days turned into week, months, and then a year passed by. Our apartment was on the edge of it being finished from renovation and school was starting in a few weeks, everything felt like a charm. Everything was calm, nice, and life was easy!

During the 2025 part of school, Sisi was very interactively and she was very happy as it sawn. It did not look like she had something, the only think she had, was the love for us.

As 2025 ended and 2026 was right around the corner, we started seeing something weird about her. Her belly started to inflate like a ballon; it looked like something was pressing against her organs. And it turned out to be the case, on 14th of January 2026, my mom took her to the doctor. Where an x-ray was made. Something like a ball was inside her, covering one of his kidneys. We thought that because the x-ray wasn't a 3D one made from all angles, it might just have been something that was only in a part of her body.

My mom took her to another x-ray on 20th of January 2026, this time a 3D one. The results weren't as quick as for the standard non-3D one, but they were set to arrive in 5 business days, 26th of January marking it the 5th.

The results arrived between 4:30 PM and 7:00 PM, and they were sad... Both of her kidneys were affected, with one of them being completely covered by a weird white ball which looked like a rock. Hearing this, all of us started crying, Sisi being the only animal left in the house played a really important role in it.

And as I mentioned at the beginning, we already decided that she is a lost cause. We can't revive her anymore.

I might post another post on this blog on the 31st of January 2026, which will be Sisi's final day to leave.

In memory of Sisi.
March 2024 - 28th of January 2026

I've decided to move to The Netherlands

 So, in the last few days I started to develop a thought that I'm not in the right place, and that as soon as I finish collage, I will need to pack my stuff and move from Romania. And I decided that The Netherlands is the best country to do so!

Now, I'm in 8th grade, so I have well over 8 years until to do so. But it doesn't hurt to think and make a plan about it! So, my plan is that in these 8 years that I have speared to learn Dutch, because what else can I do? In the meantime, I will also be actively thinking about my future life there and how I will survive there.

I know that now you might have some questions, like what do I mean by "how I will survive there"? Well, I want a better life for me and for my future family, so sitting here in Romania will not do anything! Romania in my opinion is already a country beyond failure, it struggles with corruption, the education system is crap, etc.

So, that's why I've chosen The Netherlands! It's a beautiful country, has better systems than Romania, and their language is much easier than German or French, and also, it's a small country! What could you not love about it? Now to give a little more insight about the language, it's if German took the simplicity and vocabulary of English. Which let's be real, it's really good! You get the coolness of German in a simple package.

And now you might be thinking "Why didn't I decide move to Germany/France/[insert European superpower here]?", well I thought that moving to a big influential country would be hard, especially that 99.9% of people just migrate to the superpowers. And I decided not to be like everyone and to seek a peaceful country, so that's why I choose The Netherlands!

I made an ecosystem

 So, I decided to make an ecosystem. Why? Because now I have a wiki, this blog, and in all kinds of projects and ideas that I'm working on.

And to make them connected, I think an ecosystem is the most viable solution. The ecosystem is called "Borealis Ecosystem", I chose this name because "IulianArian Ecosystem" would have been too boring, and because recently I'm obsessed with the beautiful nordic lights.

Now what does this mean for projects and ideas that are included in this ecosystem? It means that they would be heavy documented and be a little more active than my other projects or ideas. I see it as it makes tasks to seem more important and makes me work on them more.

So far, I decided that I will be including the fallowing projects/ideas:

• This blog
• The wiki
• Operation "Nordic Lock-in"

Maybe there would be more projects or ideas added to this list, but so far, I decided that these would be the priorities.

The first hours from 2026

 It has been well over 11 hours since 2026 began for me, and so far, everything is going great! Now I still have that muscle memory to type "2025" instead of "2026", but that just fixes itself with time.

Now for the first day of 2026 I felt a little strange, like I felt depression when I visited my grandparents, and when cleaning my endless stuff from my external HDD. I don't know why this was the case, but it seems I really left everything in 2025. And I hope that is the case! It's not like I did not have good memories from 2025, but most of the time being alive in 2025 felt sad, like it supposed to be like that.

I don't know why it was like that, but this year I feel it would be different in every way! Now that I know school doesn't help me at all when it comes to passing their own stupid little tests, I will embrace my plan form the post titled "Operation "Nordic Lock-in"". As much as people would say that AI is useless and unsuitable for learning, they most of the time do not even do the tasks that the AI tells them to do. So, with that said, I hope I will be entering 9th grade in the high school I want to!

As for my activity online, I will try to post more consistently on this blog, as for my YouTube Channel... I will have to wait for THE BIG SUMMER OF 2026 to see some content on there.

Happy New Year 2026!

  Ok, when I'm writing this is literally 3:14 AM, 31st of December 2025. So, it's not really the new year hype right now... But I decided to write this post in time, just in case I will forget to do so.

Now 2026 will be an important year for me, I will have my 8th grade test in June which will decide at what school I will be going to, and also, it will decide if I get a Framework 16 or not. I swear I will be studying this year like never before with the help of our friend ChatGPT. Now you might be questioning yourself about my decision of studying with an AI, but this might be my only solution considering that Romania has worst education than Czechia. Which let's be real, it is embarrassing for a country like Romania having this establishment.

But maybe that won't be for long. I have a history of sending emails to the government of Romania regarding my concerns for the education they give. And you know what they did? Tried to eliminate me by redirecting my email to the local institute of monitoring schools, and they called my school saying that I should be expelled. I did not say anything bad in the email back at the sart of 2025, so I don't know why they did this, only to "eliminate" the voice?

Anyways! Now that 2026 came, I will study hard. And after I entered 9th grade, I will try joining programs like ERASMUS+ and FLEX so I can escape this broken mess of a school system!

By the way, if you have similar dreams or plans, I think this is the best time to start accomplishing some of them!

Merry Christmas!

 As I promised in the last post, here's my wishes for y'all a good Christmas and beautiful memories that will last forever!

Now this post won't be long, but it will contain a topic that became one of the saddest I've ever seen. I'm referring to the most recent one of kids no longer believing in Santa. It might have been a case in older years, but this year was the only one that I saw it with my own eyes.

I was scrolling trough YouTube Shorts to pass my time, when randomly I stumbled across a video with Santa in a mall just sitting by his own thoughts. It was a sad thing to see anyway! I was expecting that this would never happen, but I guess the iPads and the iPhones really kept the kids inside.

Now as I was writing this post something really unexpected happened. There were about 15 - 20 cars that stopped on the road in-front of my block, people from all kinds of age groups exited the cars and started singing Christmas song. Not with lyrics, but with instruments. As I learned from my mom, this is happening every year on our street. Which I have to say, it's a pleasant surprise to know! I don't think that this is a norm outside of Europe, or maybe just Eastern Europe, but this in my opinion adds some happiness to the beautiful holiday of Christmas.

Operation "Nordic Lock-in"

 You might be wondering about the title of this post, but it's real, I'm actually doing this!

Now, I might it called it an "operation", but it's more like a personal project were I'm trying to teach myself the nordic way with the help of ChatGPT (and maybe even Gemeni). And ditching the Romanian education way! It might have been improved along the years, but I'm not waiting until I'm like 50 to start understanding what is taught in school.

This thought started a few days ago, when I just found out that the Bosnian Mark is better than the Romanian Leu (RON). I took my question to ChatGPT, and instead of asking the question I had in mind, I started a whole therapy season with ChatGPT on the idea that Romania is a well-done (in the bad way) country when it comes to the management of it and other similar aspects. One of them being the education, which is already well behind most of the European systems. I mean come on! Even Bulgaria has better education (statistic wise) compared to Romania.

My conversation with ChatGPT carried on for the next hours. Until I realized that even if I sent an email to the ministry of education, the change would not happen for the next 20 ‐ 30 years. So, I took the responsibility into my own hands and started this personal project.

I will make sure to keep you guys updated regarding this project on the wiki and also on here. So, stay tuned and fallow the tag "Nordic Lock-in" for new posts about this subject! Also, I forgot to mention that I also started this project because I got a below passing note on the national evaluation simulation test. The real test is in the last week of June, so I think it's the best time to start this!

Also, there are only 4 days until Christmas (I will 100% make a post!), and just 11 days until 2026... Damn, that's sad.

I'm thinking of becoming an animator...

 I recently started to watch someone who I was aware of its existence but never got to watch his videos, that person it's Chipflake, or shorter, Chip.

He is a Britan that moved to Germany for lots of reasons with the main one being to be with his life partner. But I don't want to make this post all about Chip! I mean, read the title.

So, thinking of becoming an animator... This thought came into my head a few days ago when I got to known it's history tough older videos, now to be real with you, I kind of relate to him with a lot of things. One of them being how I sit while using my laptop, like I sit exactly the same! With my legs in front of me. Only recently I tried to sit normally, but there are colder days where my legs are freezing...

Anyways! Now from where does the part of "I'm thinking of becoming an animator" come from? Well just a few minutes before starting to write this post I watched a video posted by Chipflake about 5 years ago. That video is "Looking through my giant box of drawings", posted on 20th of November 2020, this video gave life to a thought of becoming an animator.

Now I don't think I will start to do animation from tomorrow, because there are a lot of things that I need to take into account. One of them being the name I'm using everywhere! If you don't know, the name "IulianArian" is my actual real name. The same name that shows on my ID, on my birth certificat, etc.

Which now that I think about it, doesn't sound good at all in other languages! Plus, the name "IulianArian" doesn't sound that good... Maybe I will eventually change it to something else, but right now I don't have any ideas, plus it will be frustrating to rebrand everything from my YouTube channel to my wiki.

So, maybe in the near future I will come up with a name that sounds good and is memorable.

I started playing Minecraft single-player...

 Today I created a Minecraft world on the version 1.16.5. Why on this version in particular? Well, it was the last version I felt happy playing it, and also it in my opinion it was the last version to retain the old gameplay but not in a way which felt too old.

Now that I have given a brief explanation to why I choose this specific version, let's get into the world details! The world I'm playing on has the seed -343522682, which is the seed of the demo world that is created if you don't have Minecraft bought on PC.

The curent "home".

Why I choose this seed? Well, back in the autumn of 2018, I started playing Minecraft. But because my mom was very anti-buying games, I played on the demo world. The demo world in particular left a very weird mark on my soul, it was like a familiar place that was at the same time unknown. And that's why I love it!

So, with that second explanation out of the way, let me tell you about the current induration of the world. As soon as I created it, I rushed into getting a bed using shears. Because I know that killing too many animals around the spawning chunks will lead into them not spawning throughout the world.

After that I made myself a cozy little home in the famous cave, where I first put down my bed all the way back in 2018. After that I started looting one shipwreck round spawn and started to make my base.

The state of the base so far.

After marking some foundation to my base, I started to mine a bit. But as you can tell by the time I posted this post, I didn't get too far with that.

Anyways! I think I've finally found that lost happiness to playing Minecraft. Now that I started this world, I will set myself one rule. One important rule that I cannot break under any circumstances. That rule is that I'm not allowed to cheat, even if I'm in big danger.

I set myself this rule because I did not beat Minecraft in the right way once in my life! I mean it was always like once I got to the end, I wound just do /kill @e[type=ender_dragon] and that was it! And now I feel bad for not doing it correctly, so that's why I'm setting myself this rule!

Welcome Bluesky!

 Today I made an important decision. And that decision is that when I will become more known as a person online, I will start to use Bluesky!

I feel that Bluesky it's a much better alternative and that it is really the blue sky that everyone wants. I like how that sounded. Anyways, because I made this post only to announce that I'm on Bluesky as well, I feel that this will be the perfect post to mention why I think Bluesky is better than Twitt- I mean 𝕏.

So, let's get started with the AI part. Our beautiful AI that invaded our day-to-day life either we want it or not, now I don't have anything with AI, I kind of actually like it. But when it is thrown in every single thing known to mankind, it starts to lose its charm of being that one unic tool.

Twitter has its own AI named Grok, which sounds a lot like the word "glock". The thing is that this AI is thrown at you every time it has the chance to be, trough the comments, or through the sidebar. Bluesky on the other hand, doesn't even have an AI chatbot.

Now, let's get into the algorithm of each platform. Twitter has a more "what's popular" algorithm, as for Bluesky it as a more "from your fallowing". Which I think the Bluesky one it's the better one.

Bluesky fells a lot like it's for humans in my opinion. Twitter it's just filled with bots, if you look at any report of the bot percentage, Twitter will be at around 90%. Which means Twitter became a "from bots for bots" platform.

Now I know I haven't pointed everything out, but I'm sure you know the other inconveniences with Twitter that just make Bluesky look like a pile of gold.

Most of the internet just went down

 I just got back from school, and I hopped on SMPEarth, which is a server I usually play on. I just wanted to vote for the server to receive the 4000 dollars you get in game for voting.

ChatGPT as of 18th of November 2025 4:00 PM.

Littel did I know that Cloudflare managed the backend of those websites. And that I couldn't vote at all!

I said to myself: "Ok, it happens sometimes...". An event like this happened a few years ago as well, but it didn't affect me much back then. But now I happen to rely on Cloudflare much more than a few years ago. After I saw that it was a peaty serios outage, so I decided to go to ChatGPT. The same thing, it relies on Cloudflare. So, I guess I will go on Twitter? It too relies on Cloudflare.

My Encyclopedia as of 18th of November 2025 4:00 PM.

Now I guess I will watch some videos on YouTube... because I can't do much...

Or I can process the photos I made today at school. Anyways, the think is that Cloudflare need a competitor as soon as posibile! Because if this happens in the future, it may make the whole internet unusable!

Just look at my wiki right now! It's stuck on error 500 because of Cloudflare!

This is the best day of my life!

 For the past weeks I was looking for a new laptop. Not because my old one is broken ir anything, but it was taken from me because on the 28th of October 2025 "I did not do anything productive".

So, since then I am stuck with 2 laptops that they were hidden as a backup. Those 2 laptops are the Dell Latitude E5570 and the Fujitsu Lifebook S752, which were very helpful for the past week. Anyway! Now let's get into the topic!

I was looking for a new laptop, because let's be real, my main laptop (the Dell G3 3500) had enough. So, I started looking through business class laptop. Because I heard they were the best ones build, but they were expensive! Like one would be around the 30000 RON mark, which was already too expansive for a laptop.

And in that moment, I remembered a laptop manufacture which made laptop to last, and to be a worthy investment. Framework! Framework is one of the BEST laptop manufactures to ever exist! And that's why I considered a laptop from them will be a no-brainer!

Now originally, I settled for my laptop configuration to be under 16000 RON. But after giving my phone to my mom, I think she was like: "He wants only 32 GB of RAM? Let's make that 96!". And that's how the laptop became around 18000 RON (tax not included). Personally, I did not expect her to do such a move. But I guess I was wrong!

Now, because I felt bad for wanting an object which was that expensive. I said to her that I will pay a small amount of money. And she said that with my money or not, she will save money for the laptop. My mind was blowing of happiness! Like I will 100% get it!

But he put a condition to this deal. My dream of getting a Framework, would only become a reality if I get into high school. Now, I respect that decision, it's completely understandable. So, from now on if I want to get that Framework laptop, I will need to learn really bad. Because my grades are not good by any means, and if I want to get into high school, my grades need to be better than 5 for Romanian and math.

And now with that said. I might not post for a while... So, have a great morning, afternoon, night, whatever!

New video this weekend!

 Ok, so it's Monday. Everyone hates Monday. But Monday it's the first day of the week, and this week will be a special one for me!

One year ago, I was in a village near Timișoara. Even though the weather was rough; I still enjoyed my time there! I wanted to go to the village this year too, but because I can't, I'm stuck in Timișoara. At least I'm not too far from the edge of the city, and I can go there whenever I want! And because this week it's also Halloween, I think it would be cool to film a short video with the laptop I talked about in the last post.

Also, I want to promote a small music artist from Canada. To be more specific Nova Scotia. Now he is bigger than me, but he's most played song has about 28K plays. And the second most played has only 623 plays. It's so said seeing a talented person having only small numbers compared to the big masses. But if I think about it, it's probably ok that he's not a big artist. If he were, the charm would disappear.

Now I realized that I've been talking about this artist for a whole paragraph, but I didn't reveal his name! He's name is GAKHED. Now of course I will give him credit! And I will do it the friendliest way possible, by linking directly to its website! So, here it is!

Now as for the video, it will mainly be a Halloween special. But who knows what I may be adding?

Why Ubuntu and Linux in general is great!

 My brain just committed something called thinking, which resulted in an idea. That idea is that I should make a video about how Ubuntu and Linux in general is great for older hardware, especially on laptops, since they are the dominant in my opinion.

The Fujitsu laptop as I currently writhing this post.

Now just for a little bit of context on how I came to this conclusion, I've recently found an old Fujitsu laptop from 2012 - 2013 just laying by the recycle bin when I came from school. Of course I was tempted by it, so I checked it for any serious damage and took it home. Once I got home, I power it on, and I saw that it had Windows 10 on it. Now because when I've found it was 14th of October, I thought that it would be funny to install Windows 7 on it. So, that's what I did!

After the installation was completed, I found out that some software I wanted to use did not support Windows 7 anymore (that wasn't surprising). So, I thought about another operating system that would work great on here. And there it came to me, Ubuntu! Ubuntu was the default operating system that came pre-installed on my main laptop, but because I use mainly Windows only software, I've installed Windows on it. And because I want this Fujitsu to be more like a just in case backup, Ubuntu was a no brainer.

The "number pad".

I originally intended to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7, but because of the limited hard drive space that it has (it only has a 128 GB SSD), I opted to have installed Ubuntu only. For some reason, Ubuntu installed with a UEFI loader, but this laptop doesn't even have a UEFI BIOS. Putting this oddity aside it runs pretty well! And under Ubuntu, I've managed to get the battery to last 6 hours. 6 HOURS!

Now I'm writing this blog post on the Fujitsu laptop, I can't tell if the writing experience is bad or not. But one downside that this laptop has, is that it doesn't have a proper number pad. I love having a number pad on a laptop and on a physical keyboard in general. Now this Fujitsu laptop has a "number pad" but it's more like a function key. You have to press a key (like you would do to activate caps lock), and then simultaneously while pressing the function key press the letters U, I, O, J, K, L, and M. Which are part of the "number pad".

The ON or OFF Wi-Fi switch.

The overall experience with this thing is that I love the long battery life and having a slider in the front to turn ON or OFF the Wi-Fi. Now I like Ubuntu as well, but I think it's too overrated to say it. Every Linux distribution is great in its own way!

As for the video I was talking at the beginning, I'm planning to release it by the next weekend. But if I delay it, I apologize in advance.

Goodbye Windows 10!

 Today is the date!

Goodbye Windows 10!

You've been a very useful OS for productivity, and I hope you will be remembered as the OS that helped us grow and develop.

Thanks for being such a stable (from 2020 and up) and compatible OS!

Now I'm using Windows 11 for a couple of months, and if you're someone who stays on Windows 10 because of the stability. I'm here to say that most of the major issues I've had with it are fixed, and I guess that my problems where you're problems too! So, upgrade to 11 if you can! If not, Ubuntu isn't that bad after all!

There's also an ESU program for Windows 10, and also there are bypasses for Windows 11's Microsoft Account only thing. So, do whatever you want! I just gave you some options!

Oh, by the way, I've released a video on my birthday (6th of October 2025). So, check it out! :3

The Red Lake – Going back to Timișoara

 I started my day by backing up my stuff and preparing to leave the beautiful lands of Székelyföld and going back to the flat plains of Banat. I will be missing the landscape and the people from the Székelyföld region... But school will start in about 2 weeks, so I needed to get back home.

The forest as seen from the fountain.

I check-outed from the pension and got to a small grocery store right by the Red Lake, I got some yogurt to drink and a small bread to eat on my way back. After half an hour, I stopped at a small fountain to get some water from the region. Because who knows when I will be able to come back here?

After I was done filling 3 - 5 bottles with water, I got back on the road. But a few minutes later, I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was somewhere around Târgu Mureș. I just entered the A3 highway, the sun was blasting with head. I wanted to sleep some more just to pass the time, but I wasn't tired anymore. So, I stayed up!

Once I got to the A10 highway interchange with the A1 highway one, I took a break for about half an hour. After that, I got on the A1 highway. This aera wasn't interesting at all, I think this is because there was a big traffic jam at the 2 segments of the A1 highway. During it, I tried to sleep. And I half succeeded!

When I was about 85 kilometers from Timișoara, I made a stop to grab some of my stuff that I let at the village, not to be confused with the another one. Once I packed the stuff that I let at the village, I got to Timișoara.

Now that I am in Timișoara, I am going to prepare for another trip which will be soon™.

With that said I hope that one day I get to visit Moldova, or maybe even Ukraine if the war is cooling down. I mean, I was so close to the both of them! So, why should I let them out from my travel list?

Also, sorry for putting only one picture. But what I was going to photograph? The highway?

The Red Lake – Street View

 I started my day by preparing for the bobsleigh track, by grabbing my Insta360 and my GPS remote.

Today, as I said yesterday I'll be going to do a street view at the bobsleigh track. I had only 2 rounds left, so I needed it to be as perfect as I can. My first try did not succeed, because my GPS remote did not want to colabrorate with the camera in any way. So, I did a normal 360°. As for the next and final round, my GPS remote finally decided to work! And, I did my street view!

The landscape as viewed from the road that goes to the pension.

After successfully doing my street view, I got back to the Red Lake and did the route that surrounds it. When I finished it, I thought that it would be cool to go to the pension on foot instead, so that's what I did!

Also, I bought a small flag that will 100% remind me of this region. The Székely falg!

After making my purchase and arriving at the pension, my legs all hurt. So, I took a nap for about 2 hours, until I woke up and got back to the Red Lake to eat dinner.

The Red Lake as seen from the route.

I ate at a small restaurant right by the lake instead of eating at the biggest restaurant in the region, which is Panorama. Right after finishing my dinner, I got a kürtőskalács with nuts to eat at the pension. Which was really good by the way!

Then, after finishing all my food, I played some Rummy. Where of course I got beaten most of the time, but at least I had fun. And because I'll be going to my grandparents right after this trip, I'll buy them a Rummy to play with them, because they don't have one.

And that was for this day! Tomorrow I'll be going back to Timișoara, and now that I think about it. I'll be missing the landscape, the Székely people, and other cool things in the region.

If you ever got a chance to visit the Red Lake and by extension the surrounding areas. I strongly recommend you do so!

Also, I need to apologize for only putting 2 photos instead of 3. The thing is that I have a lot of photos, but there isn't space for them. Sorry about that!

The Red Lake – Bobsleigh Track

 This is my second day in the Red Lake region, and all I have to say is... I love the Székely people and their lifestyle! Some people might tell you that they are just Hungarians, but they are completely different. They are littery the 180° of Hungarians!

Anyways, I started my day by waking up and going to the kitchen from the pension I'm staying at. The food was really good compared to other places I stayed at in the past, and the staff is really friendly. After I ate the food, I got to the bobsleigh track from the Red Lake. It is approximately 950 meters bobsleigh track, it isn't long but it gets the job done. It was so nice of the staff there for letting me film the entire track with my Insta360, also I was thinking of putting the whole track on Street View. Which I'll 100% do!

The mountains as seen from the Bicaz Gorges.

After I used the 3 out of 5 rounds, I've decided to go to Cheile Bicazului (English: The Bicaz Gorges). There I also used my Insta360 to film a bit of the route!

After that I was pretty hungry, so I stopped at a mini restaurant at the side of the road. The food was as mid as it could get, but at least it satisfied my hunger. On the road, I also saw some shops, but because the parking situation wasn't the best, I walked until there! It was like a mini adventure, trying not to get hit by a car and seeing beautiful scenery.

The Ceaușescu mug.

Once I got to the shops I saw everything from the weirdest things to the coolest things to ever exist. Like this little mug with Ceaușescu splattered on it, which I end up buying. Then I walked all the way back to the car, to get back to the Red Lake.

The Red Lake as seen from the balcony.

As I arrived at the Red Lake there was a walk path right by the lake's edge, on which I walked for a good while. As I walked, I saw a little balcony with a view of the lake. I took some pictures and then went to a restaurant to drink something because I was really thirsty.

The Bicaz River close to the Red Lake.

But first, I explored the area by the lake and found some ducks. After visiting the ducks, I walked to the restaurant, and I ended up ordering an ice cream too besides water. You know, just to end the day nicely!

Then I got back to the pension and played some Rummy, because outside there was a thunderstorm.

Once the storm ended I walked outside and ended up seeing a fox just roaming around the pension. Could this be a sign? Probably!