...to consider Moldova.
The country has a rich history. Language and ethnic differences -- Romanian, Ukrainian, others -- weave a complex human texture. In the past two decades, strife and conflict have unsettled the nation. Dire economic factors add to the stress.
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Speaking of grapes, Wikipedia has this to say:
Moldova consumes the highest amount of alcohol per capita in the world.
I would like to visit there or at least float through. To absorb the atmosphere. To drink some of that wine. Think of the wine-brimming conversations! Everybody sociable and smiling, maybe a little dancing. Someone brings up poetry. Recitations of how forlorn it is to be so landlocked. Of how sad and pleasant to sway while dreaming of wine-dark seas beyond the horizon....
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