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12th May 2011

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Romanian Gypsies Going slightly off topic and apologies to National Geographic… My wife has Gypsy blood on both her mothers and fathers side so she was understandably interested in the Roma experience over here. Especially, since some of her family came from Romania originally. We were lucky enough to be able to find and visit a Gypsy village and go into the home of a basket maker. Through a translater we learned that Romanian Gypsies A) Don’t move around (Ceaucescu basically banned them from travelling and stuck them in out of the way dumps) and B) Generally get by on a flat rate 50 Euro monthly stipend, regardless of the size of their families. Any money made from selling crafts or doing building work is the difference between living and just existing. Basically, it’s a tough life. Forget education, regular health care or even crude sanitation. Having said that, the people I saw looked a lot more cheerful than the average individual on Oxford Street. In Gorans house I watched while a very young child was allowed to touch the hot iron stove. He screamed with pain, then his mother hit him. As the translater said, ‘He will not do that again’.

Romanian Gypsies

Going slightly off topic and apologies to National Geographic… My wife has Gypsy blood on both her mothers and fathers side so she was understandably interested in the Roma experience over here. Especially, since some of her family came from Romania originally. We were lucky enough to be able to find and visit a Gypsy village and go into the home of a basket maker. Through a translater we learned that Romanian Gypsies A) Don’t move around (Ceaucescu basically banned them from travelling and stuck them in out of the way dumps) and B) Generally get by on a flat rate 50 Euro monthly stipend, regardless of the size of their families. Any money made from selling crafts or doing building work is the difference between living and just existing.

Basically, it’s a tough life. Forget education, regular health care or even crude sanitation. Having said that, the people I saw looked a lot more cheerful than the average individual on Oxford Street. In Gorans house I watched while a very young child was allowed to touch the hot iron stove. He screamed with pain, then his mother hit him. As the translater said, ‘He will not do that again’.

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