Railway

Sinaia, mon amour (photo: Mihai Plămădeală)

Coming back in our capital city from the Sighişoara Medieval Festival 2010, the train stationed no less then three hours in Sinaia. Meanwhile, Nomen Est Omen took delight in blackberries wrapped in paper cornet, peanuts in bags and many more wonderful things. Nobody bought a key trinket with compass or a thermometer (shaped as a deer), nor a fanny pack tailored as a shoe, but everybody felt ok even so. From the platform Mihai took a picture of us standing at the window; we took him some pictures from the train, while he tried to keep the balance on the railway. His picture came out much more convincing, hence the idea that in life it’s better to look up.

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After the Parade

What you see from outside, you don’t see from inside (photo: Victor Velculescu)

It’s easy to be wise after the parade … The parade of the “Transylvanian Fortresses” Festival from Sibiu was impressive in 2010 and 2011. It is a great feeling to march in front of a wide public of (tens of) thousand of people, on a central route three-four kilometers long, to be finally presented on the stage in the Grand Square, in all dignity, as a participant artist. Nomen Est Omen, as many other bands, ensembles, reenactment groups or theatre companies, was photographed by many cameras, more or less professional. Finally, when the party was over, we took a picture for our hearts, to have it in our own collection, but also to find out how we looked in that evening. “What you see from outside, you don’t see from inside”, as Dorian Radu (he is a friend of ours, we don’t think you know him) said (in a song from 1989).

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An Arc Over Time

The Northern side of the Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral from Sibiu (photo: Victor Velculescu)

2011 was the year of Nomen Est Omen’s tenth consecutive participation to the festival “Transylvanian Fortresses”, Sibiu. Scheduled, by tradition, in the last weekend of August, the medieval gathering makes our band to associate the end of the summer with the presence in the beautiful gothic city on the Cibin river. To find again and again, in the same season, the Grand Square, the Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral or the Liar’s Bridge, gives you a keen feeling of time jump. “The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older”. We promised ourselves to take a picture in 2012, in the same relative position we took a year ago, in front of the northern side of the Lutheran Cathedral, dressed with the same costumes. That is, if destiny has not already decided that we will skip Sibiu next year. As an old saying says – the devil laughs when the man makes plans. 

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