Mircea Bravo filmed a clip at Eforie Nord in which he captures the Romanian coastline which is, he says, “like Romania, with everything”. He made a seaside survival guide that begins with a prayer at a Christian shop: “Lord help me not to get a stake!”
The first survival technique in the Sea involves a prayer. PHOTO: Video capture/Mircea Bravo
Mircea Bravo made a clip at Eforie Nord, in the middle of August, to learn some essential survival techniques on the Romanian coast. “How to get fewer spikes“, he explained.
The vlogger noticed that the Romanian coast offers something you can’t find either in Spain or Thailand – parking spaces on the beach. “There is a limited number of places, but if you come early you can find a place”.
Bravo questioned a policeman about parking spaces on the beach:
– Hello, I’m Mircea. I mean there are people who parked on the beach
– I know, someone from the local (police-n) will come and deal with them.
-I have an Audi Q5, can I pack it here?
– You can’t park, there’s a fine from 100 to 200 million…
– Now I understand that you are taking a Duster out of here, but an Audi is an Audi after all.
– It doesn’t matter.
“God help me not to get a spike”
The first survival technique was identified by Mircea in a stand with religious objects: “You come, you buy an icon, and you say: “God help me not to get a stake. You say it, but if you also have an icon you realize that the protection is probably higher and there are much better chances of it happening. I think you can also go in, briefly, and say a prayer and leave: “God help me not to get impaled”.
“And you don’t give a penny” – he concluded.
“Before you were sure you got a disease from food”
And because one of the most important aspects of vacation is food, Bravo tried to find out how to choose the restaurant or self-catering that won’t give you food poisoning.
The vlogger’s first finding was that “self-service is a concept that makes you not nervous about being served, but automatically nervous about yourself, because you basically served yourself. If you go to a restaurant, you order and it takes an hour. You don’t like the way the food is. He put you a big piece, a small piece…can you be nervous on those people? But when you go there, you see what it looks like and you say “this is where I eat and I want that big one” and he puts it on your plate and you don’t like it, man, it’s your fault. Keep your frustrations to yourself.”
Bravo learned from a magician, who has been coming to Mare for 18 years, that food is safer on the coast lately. “The Romanian coastline has changed for the better. Even food is much safer, that doesn’t mean it’s 100% safe. What if you were sure you were getting a disease before? Now it’s half/half. Where there are a lot of people, you know that the food is changed more often”he explained.
Another gentleman who was waiting in line for something explained to the vlogger that every time he buys food from other restaurants and self-services, but only from where he sees there are a lot of people.
In the bath, in the sea?
However, since it is a holiday at Mare, Bravo also arrived at the beach. First tip – get up in the morning. At 10.15, when the comedian arrived at the beach, he couldn’t find any sunbeds. “I came a little late to the beach for Romania because absolutely all the Romanians had already arrived. And if they didn’t come, they sent one at 7 in the morning to go with 20 towels and block 20 seats so it would be full. There in line ten it’s already full. No, now find a place that’s good”commented the vlogger.
Then it was his turn to enter the water. In the characteristic style, Bravo funny addressed an unpleasant problem in certain areas of the Romanian coast – the presence of E.Coli bacteria in very high concentration in the sea water due to the lack of public toilets. So some tourists end up defecating in the water.
“Where you enter the water is important. People who stare and do nothing, those are the suspects. Try to stay as far away from them as possible, not to have anyone in the area. I caught another phase, if the water is very warm, don’t put your head under the water because it’s probably not from the sun. There are other reasons why the water is cold” – he explained a new method of survival.
“It’s a lot of mess”
Bravo asked some tourists and what they think of the sea.
A two-year-old tourist claimed to have been coming to the seaside for 10 years. “What has changed in the last 10 years?” – asked Mircea.
“The prices. The prices ripped us off. It’s more expensive than in Greece. But we come here because we’re used to it. We also have money…”, – answered the man.
Bravo commented: “It seems to me that the man comes here because he feels rich.” He says: “Well, it’s more and more expensive, but I still come. I think I like to come here to the rich, so that my Romanians can see that I can afford it. In the end, that’s not what it’s about. If I come and it’s still cheap, where do I feel that I’m evolving in life.”
A resident of Brasov who was at sea for 5 days said: “Reach! I can’t anymore, it’s too crowded. I can’t anymore. I can’t wait to go home to Brașov tomorrow”.
The man has not been to Eforie Nord since 2009. “It has changed completely. As for the town hall, I think they do absolutely nothing, it’s a lot of mess. Instead, the services are acceptable, as in Romania. The private ones somehow improved their services, but it’s a mess in the resort, let alone. The beach is dirty, very dirty, and on the ground, on the side of the street, there is a lot of dirt, although there are corners of 30 by 30 meters, I saw them. “
The tourist claimed that it was “end of the line” for him.
After the experience at the seaside, Mircea concluded:
“I feel a spiritually richer person, I even lived a complex experience here, because Eforie Nord is exactly like Romania, it has everything, people at the caterinca, expensive things, with cheap things. It’s with everything”
