The drive from Sighet to the Merry Cemetery was just 20 minutes along the border with Ukraine. At one point our phones pinged, "Welcome to Ukraine" as we were driving. Here is the map:
And here's where you can see the Ukrainian villages just across the river.
We arrived at the Merry Cemetery just before 5pm and were able to see many worshippers coming to the service. The artist who started making clever poems for those buried here in the 1930s is also buried here.
I loved this woman at the loom.
The painted church was incredibly detailed inside and out.
Across the street was an old wooden church in need of a little repair.
We drove back to Baia Mare through Negrești-Oaș and our hotel on the edges of the city. I loved the decorations and displays in the lobby. Since Transylvania was Hungarian for so long, many of the places here have Hungarian names and remnants.
The lobby had collected this Hungarian Tavasz T 4303 television. These televisions were made between 1960 and 1964. This TV was very widespread; in its time it was considered a "people's TV." The picture tube was explosive, so the plexiglass on the front did not serve only as decoration. The buttons of its control mechanism are on the side.
The translation from the top left to right is Light/Power, Volume, Vertical, Horizontal, Fine Tuning, Contrast.
This book published in Budapest in 1977 is called My Mother's Chicken. It is full of little rhymes about people in the neighborhood. As much as I love my Hungarian roots, I'm grateful I don't have to learn this incredibly difficult language.
Finally, an antique I actually owned. Although the bobbin access door is missing, I checked and the bobbin is still there!
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