I was on a business trip in Romania this week, and had to, or, had a chance to spend couple of days on countryside.
We made a round tour, started from Bucharest and the most far city was close 400 km from the capital of Romania.
In these 2 days I had the possibility to see how things really are in the countryside. It is very big gap between the city life and country life. The countryside is very poor. Houses and barns are very old and in very bad shape.
As you can see in my photos, people are still using very much horses to transport some things or just for going somewhere.
What really made me sad was the condition of horses. Most of them looked like they don't get enough food, hair looking like they are not taking care of properly.
People are just using their horses, not treating and taking care of them like they should.
But, there were also horses which were in very good shape. And that you could see about how the horses were acting. These poor horses did not pay any attention what was happening around them, but horses in good condition looking like they are "alive".
One romanian guy was my driver during these days, and he told me something what shocked me.
When the winter comes, gypsy people let their horses go free, because they don't need their horses on winter. And because they don't need them, they don't want to feed them!
Some horses survives over the winter on their own, some are not...
Actually I saw one dead horse stomach open, just left there on the roadside! Terrible!
I think I never can forget that view.
I just can't understand how people can act like this.
