ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Europa Oriental 2005</TITLE> <META name="generator" content="Adobe Photoshop(R) CS Web Photo Gallery"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor=#42c245 text=#000000 link=#0000ff vlink=#2226ba alink=#2839de> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2" width="100%" bgcolor=#e7ee29> <TR> <TD> <P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">----{{{&lt;&lt;```~~~!!~()*&amp;¨¨º0oº·O·ºo0º¨¨&amp;*()~!!~~~```&gt;&gt;}}}----</SPAN></FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=3>Colegas en Europa Oriental <FONT face="Times New Roman">º0oº·O·ºo0º</FONT> The Eastern Europe Colleagues <BR> <BR>Ending 2005 se ha terminado </FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">----{{{&lt;&lt;```~~~!!~()*&amp;¨¨º0oº·O·ºo0º¨¨&amp;*()~!!~~~```&gt;&gt;}}}----</SPAN> <BR></FONT></FONT></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P><P><P><CENTER> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="500"> <TR> <TD width="500" align="middle"> <P><P> <p class=MsoNormal>These are pictures relating to points of time just before the end of 2005 in some of the following countries - <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Spain</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">France</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Italy</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Austria</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Slovenia</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Croatia</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:place><st1:city><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Bosnia-Herzogovina</SPAN></ST1:CITY><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Serbia</SPAN></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Romania</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Hungary</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> and The Netherlands. </SPAN> The photos are not in order (except for the begining and ending)</p> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </CENTER> <P></P> <CENTER> <CENTER><TABLE cellspacing=10 cellpadding=0 border=0> <TR> <P> <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <P></P> <IMG src="PICT00081.jpg">&nbsp; <P> This is where this history begins, in the&nbsp;small spanish village&nbsp;of Sant Pere de Ribes.</P> <P>Aquí es donde esta historia comenzó, en el pueblito - Sant Pere de Ribes.</P> <P></P> <P> <P> <IMG style="LEFT: 1px; TOP: 630px" src="Estermisamigos.jpg"> </P> <P> The Earth Mother with a few colegas at La Casita de Valles Altos. </P> La Madre de la Tierra con algunos colegas en La Casita de Valles Altos. <P> <IMG src="PICT0006.jpg"> </P> <P>Ronald the lapsed imperial librarian, resident at La Casita de Valles Altos,&nbsp;with praying mantis. </P> <P> <A href="poems.htm"><FONT size=6>Read some of Ronald's Poems</FONT> </A> </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <p> <IMG style="WIDTH: 336px; HEIGHT: 376px" height =531 src="PICT0047.jpg" width=371 >&nbsp; <P></P> <P>A&nbsp;few of the colegas from around Sant Pere de Ribes. Andale colegas! Dale caña! </P> <P> <IMG height=431 src="PICT00071.jpg" width=334>&nbsp; </P> <P> Scene 1 from La Casita de Valles Altos </P> <IMG style="WIDTH: 488px; HEIGHT: 449px" height =472 src="PICT0023.jpg" width=516 > <P></P> <P> Scene 2 Cositas bajo el pino. </P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>..And from the tranquility of the small spanish village&nbsp;there began a trip by car...</P> <P>for details of car trouble see Appendix A.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P> <P> <P><IMG src="PICT0133.jpg"></P> <P> <P>Enzo - fotomaki</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>..And now some pictures along the way...</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <IMG src="Papanoel.jpg"> <P></P> <P>Papa Noel shopping the cheese Zagreb</P> <P>&nbsp; <IMG src="Rotation of PICT0106.jpg"><P> <IMG src="Rotation-of-PICT0103.jpg"> <P>Surreal reality of Dubrovnik</P> <P> <IMG src="Sarajevo.jpg"> </P> <P> <IMG src="Rotation of PICT0005.jpg"> </P> <P></P> <P></P></P> </TR> </TABLE> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="500"> <TR> <TD width="500" align="left"> Here, Enzo is locked in a Slovene prison. Luckily, he is locked in with two nice young anarcho-communal French girls. Near this place in Ljubljiana there were the most Bohemian slavs I have ever seen. The Slovene youths were all kinds of reckless boozers. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P> <IMG src="PICT0002.jpg"> </P> <P>Sarajevo</P> <P> <IMG src="Market in Zagreb.jpg"> </P> <IMG src="PICT0042.jpg"> <P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="500"> <TR> <TD width="500" align="left"> Gypsy wedding band in Belgrade. They played us a song from Underground the movie and someone came out of the church to tell them to be quite because the wedding wasn't over yet and they were too loud. </TD> </TR> </TABLE><P> <IMG src="Genova-Italy.jpg"> <P>Folklife Genoa</P> <IMG src="PICT0218.jpg"> <p> Oingboing: Halo.....Da Da............Da....Bine Bine Bine........................Da.....Bine..etc. <P> <IMG src="PICT0215.jpg">&nbsp; </P> <P>Tapas, Margaritas prepared for Romanian audience. There are no Mexican restaraunts in all of Romania! </P> <P> <IMG src="PICT0155.jpg"> <p>Trio of young gypsies played very well. <p> <IMG src="PICT0139.jpg"> </p> <P>Couple of colegas. Dale caña perritos! </P> <P> <IMG src="PICT0136.jpg"> </P> <P>Mexican food prepared for Mojca and Miran in their Maribor Casita.</P> <P> <IMG src="PICT0137.jpg">&nbsp; </P> <P></P> <P> <IMG src="PICT0134.jpg"><p> <IMG src="PICT0128a.jpg"> <p> Yael from California/Isreal/Gödöllo and Popescu in a cable car in a Croatian national park.</p> <IMG src="PICT0098a.jpg"> <p>Ptuj <p> <IMG src="PICT0209.jpg"> <p>Picasso and Magda <p> <IMG src="PICT0128.jpg">&nbsp; <P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="500"> <TR> <TD width="500" align="left"> Sarajevo - the best night of my life in recent times. At the mexican restaraunt La Hacienda there was a DJ playing Indian, Turkish and Arabic music along with a drum orchestra and belly dancers. </TD> </TR> </TABLE><p> <IMG style="LEFT: -1px; TOP: 9920px" src ="PICT0121.jpg" > <P>The highway in Bosnia was very beautiful.</P> <IMG src="PICT0120.jpg"> <P>Dale caña colegas!! </P> <P> <IMG src="PICT0098.jpg"><P> <IMG src="PICT0092.jpg"> </P> <p> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="500"> <TR> <TD width="500" align="left"> This is in a hostel in Belgrade. Mladen was the best hostel owner I have met, his ex-girlfriend the other hostel owner was a bit overbearing but nice enough. He had some pictures of the time when his girlfriends dressed him up like a woman, very funny. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p> <IMG src="PICT0088.jpg"> <p> <p> <IMG src="PICT0070.jpg"> <P>Croatian coast</P> <P> <IMG src="PICT0059.jpg"> </P> <P> Anyway, I know some people close to complete idiots. </P> <P> <IMG src="PICT0048.jpg">&nbsp; </P> <p> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="500"> <TR> <TD width="500" align="left"> Italian guy with a bufanda and the Gypsy band. Popescu started the trip with three scarfs. I stole the black one from him. The arabic one that he bought in Algeria from an Isreali was stolen by a strange Irish guy on his way to Syria. Whenever he wore the rainbow colored one people asked if he was Italian. Later one of Oana/Alina's friends stole this scarf in Bucuresti. </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <p> <IMG src="PICT0031.jpg"> <P>Florence</P> <IMG src="PICT0029.jpg"> <P>Waterfront in Split. We met a guy in Split who was in the Croatian army. He said everyone in the Croatian army does heroin.</P> <IMG src="PICT0019.jpg"> <P>Serena our unbeatable Florence host and roomate Natasha</P> <P> <IMG src="PICT0005.jpg"> <P>In Serbian village the cheapest drinks and a palinka that tasted good?! </P> <P> <IMG src="newmonkey2.jpg"> <P></P> <P>Watch out!! Monkey!!</P> <P> <IMG src="Mini -peolpe in Belgrade.jpg"> </P> <P>A couple of little Serb colegas carrying big bags. </P> <P> <IMG src="Austria1.jpg"> <p>Slovene countryside<p> <IMG src="Map-Sarajevo City.jpg"> <P> <IMG src="Hotel now-Sarajevo.jpg"> </P> <p> Repaired Holiday Inn in Sarajevo <p> <IMG src="Hotel before-Sarajevo.jpg">&nbsp; <p>Holiday Inn - International Press lodgings during war <p> <IMG src="Fotos no !! border in Croacia-Bosnia.jpg"> <P> <P>NO NO NO NO NO NO No photos! No visa! No chilenos! No americanos! No VW Golf! NO NO NO NO NO NO <P>for details of border crossing trouble see Appendix C <P> <P> <IMG src="Bibiloteca Sarajevo.jpg"> <p> Library in Sarajevo where 3 million books where burned. <P> <IMG src="Belgrade.jpg"> </P> <P>Belgrade mainstreet </P> <P> <IMG src="Chupacabra.jpg"> <P>Watch out! Cupacabra! </P> <P> <IMG src="IMG_4147.jpg"></P><P>Dutch life</P> <IMG src="IMG_4407.jpg"><P> <P>Romanian life</P> <IMG src="Market in Zagreb-Croacia.jpg"> <IMG src="IMG_4142.jpg"> <p>Amsterdam canal <P> <IMG src="IMG_4145.jpg"> <P> <IMG src="Rotation of PICT0130.jpg"> <P> <IMG src="IMG_4290.jpg"> <P>Fekete Laszlo and Madonna discuss Carpathian wolves. </P> <P> <IMG style="LEFT: 1px; TOP: 21425px" src ="IMG_4307.jpg" > </P> <P></P> <P>colors and expressions somewhere</P> <IMG src="IMG_4311.jpg"> <P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="500"> <TR> <TD width="500" align="left"> This is a german in leather who stood at the end of a stage at a concert smelling his finger for a long period of time. I did not meet him or request any further information about him, Matteus van der Velden might know something more. </TD> </TR> </TABLE><p></TR></TABLE></CENTER> <IMG src="PICT0194.jpg"></CENTER> <CENTER> </CENTER> <CENTER> </CENTER> <CENTER>I am sure this Romanian truck has only the best quality radioactivity containment equipment. </CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER> <IMG src="IMG_4349.jpg"> </CENTER> <p> <CENTER>This year the Balkans&nbsp;have gone&nbsp;absolutely insane about boot fashion, especially sexy white boots.</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER> <IMG src="PICT0012.jpg"> </CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER>Romanian Don Quijote ballet</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER><IMG src="PICT0075a.jpg"></CENTER> <p align=center> animal of leisure <p> <CENTER> <IMG src="PICT0052.jpg"> </CENTER> <CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER>More drama and dazzle at the Romanian Don Quijote ballet.</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER></CENTER> <CENTER> <IMG src="PICT0072.jpg"> </CENTER> <CENTER> no comment.</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER> <IMG src="PICT0075.jpg"><p> <IMG src="PICT0134.jpg"><p> <IMG src="Rotation of PICT0093.jpg"><p> <IMG src="Rotation of PICT0112.jpg"><p> <IMG src="Rotation of PICT0129.jpg"><p> <IMG src="IMG_4276.jpg"> <p> Fiona went on a drinking rampage after this photo, allegedly because of a dispute between Aleg Cherp and Kofi Annan. <p> <IMG src="Rotation of PICT0024.jpg"></CENTER> <CENTER> and the next chapter dawns...</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER></TR> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER> <p> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="400"> <TR> <TD align="middle">Appendix A: Typical scenes of the Balkan roads, things that happened to a poor VW Golf.<p></p></TD> </TR> <tr><td><p><p><p></p></td></TD> <TR> <td><p> <CENTER><IMG src="IMG_4316.jpg"> </CENTER><p> This is what happens in a german car if the gasoline gauge gets anywhere near empty. NO reserve! empty is empty! This, the third time I ran out of gas was because there was an accident on the Hungarian highway which stopped us 3 kilometers from the gas station. We had to wait an hour for them to clear the accident and finally we turned around and tried to go back the other way. This was the wrong decision because we got stuck on the dark foggy Hungarian highway. Luckily MvdVelden knows some Hungarian truckers. <p> <CENTER><IMG src="PICT0122.jpg"></CENTER><p> The end of a VW Golf.<p> <CENTER><IMG src="IMG_4328.jpg"></CENTER><p> <CENTER><IMG src="IMG_4331.jpg"></CENTER><p> Here is the fourth mechanical fix in action. There was a problem with the radiator fan in Marseille causing the car to overheat. (Thanks to Remi we found a secondhand part to fix that in Nice. We stayed with Remi in Marseille. He had studied to be a Math teacher but then we he began teaching he realized he had no authority to control the children so he went back to school to study Sociology.) Then the electrical system died as we drove from Florence to Bologna causing the car to shut off on the dark and foggy highway sometimes in tunnels with no way to pullover and big trucks all over the place. Next the Romanians had a turn at fixing the alternator. And finally Enzo and Mateo replace a battery. Notice the dent and broken light caused by a Romanian hit and run sucker. This is the dent that Romanian border guards were very unhappy about. Also, there was a rearview mirror that some Bosnian pranksters smashed. <p></p> <td></td> </TR> </TABLE></CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER>Appendix B: Don't take a Serbs parking space</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="600"> <TR> <TD align="left"> Serb attacks car with a hammer over parking space <p>One day we had a minor dispute with several men who came out of a money exchange office because they did not want us to park in a small side street in downtown Belgrade. That day we did not park the car there but later that night the street was empty so we parked the car there. The next morning when we went to move the car I had to move the sign for exchange rates a little in order to move the car. The men in the exchange office noticed we had parked there and were a little angry, particularly a big big fat guy with a shaved head. As Popescu started to move the car another big guy with grey hair and a white jacket says something to Popescu in Serbian from a second storey window. Popescu answers him something in Spanish. As Popescu continues backing the car out of the street the big fat shaved head guy shouts a little and slaps the car a little but I can tell he is just threatening us so we don t park there again. Then the grey hair guy comes running out of the door with a hammer! I stand between him and the car waving my hands saying No no no no no and he raises his hammer to pretend he is going to hit me but he doesn t and someone shoves me out of the way. Then he goes to the car and grabs at Popescu through the window and raises the hammer again but the big fat shaved head guy and some others are by now trying to keep the hammer guy from doing any harm. So I get in the car and we escape the tense situation.</p> <P> And then the Serb police. They were on every corner! I got a speeding ticket, Popescu got a ticket for turning the wrong way, we got a parking ticket, and then another time they pulled me over and they were about to make me do a alcohol breathalizer test but a friend convinced the cop that I was just a dumb foreigner and didn't know how to drive (which was true because they were giving me bad directions and I was driving poorly.) The cops were fairly nice though. <P></P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER>Appendix C: Border trouble</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER>&nbsp;</CENTER> <CENTER> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" width="600"> <TR> <TD align="left"> Romanian-Hungarian border parts 1-3 <p> Part 1<p> Popescu and I were rejected at the border because the car had a dent in the fender and the plastic cover to the headlight was broken. The border guard demanded that we return to Arad (the closest big city) to obtain a police report describing and registering our accident. This accident happened sometime in a parking lot in Bucuresti in the last day before we left but we didn t notice until we left. <p> Part 2<p> We covered the dent with mud and drove closely behind another car to hide the dent in the car at another border crossing& Romanians let us cross border. On the Hungarian side the car and luggage were checked twice for I don t know what. I was asked three times if I had any heroin or cocaine. I said I did not. Popescu is rejected from Hungary because his passport was expired. He wanted to go to Budapest because his new passport which was already in Barcelona could be sent faster to Budapest than to Bucuresti. He failed. We went back to Arad and he took the night train back to Bucuresti to initialize bureacratic processing. Enzo had to proceed onward. Later Popescu decided to remain in Romania permanently, maybe it was the sexy white boots. <p> Part 3<p> The next day Enzo proceeds, at the border solo, the third border crossing attempt. The Romanians again this time were very unhappy with the dent in the car but were not too hostile this time because atleast the car was very dirty and so they let me pass. The Hungarians were very bored because I was the only person at the border that day and time and all 6 of the border guards checked my pockets, luggage and car for two hours looking for who knows what. They even looked at my photos and were very suspicious of some flower seeds I had. They decided that some herbal pills that I was carrying were certainly some kind of drugs so they took me into the office and performed 7 tests for different drugs on my Kava Kava and St. Johns Wart. For some time I was getting scared because there was a brown color in one of the test tubes and one of the guards was convinced that the test revealed that my Kava Kava was an amphetamine. So then the sent me to a Turkish prison for life...just kidding, they granted me entrance into the bloody European Union and that was that.</p> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML>