• Going into the monks’ cave

    September 1, 2025 in Moldova ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

    I am not super tall, but all of the doorways in the old buildings are very short and I keep bumping my head. Watch your step. Watch your head. An acrobatic skydiver in his 70s told me he holds onto the bannister on stairways, so now I do, too.

    Going down into the cave where the monks live. I’m starting to think maybe there’s just one monk. The guy in the cave looks a lot like the one I saw walking up the hill yesterday…but maybe they all look like old monks. And then upstairs there was a steaming hot meal looking through the window in the dining room. And it looked like a meal for one.
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