Re: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

Cornel,
  So I was wrong on the out of bounds ?
   It was an adventure anyhow.
   But my remark did some good.
     It got a good story out of you.
     Specially it brought back Norma with the mini shorts .
Hardy
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From: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
To: "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "'CZERNOWITZ-L'"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>; "'Arthur von Czernowitz'"
<vonczernowitz_at_aim.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:00 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

> Hardy...just for once you are wrong!! Czernowitz under the Soviets was
> difficult to get to,but it was certainly possible. In 1964 I took my car,a
> Russian-born colleague named Pavel Kornianski...(who became a well-known
> psychiatrist in Melbourne under the name of Paul Kornan)..and 3 girls and
> drove from London. Via Czechoslovakia and through Cluj,where we had an
> amazingly good local version of Mamaliga with cheese and fruit
> built -in,and
> we gave the waitress a tip which made the waitress start kissing us! It
> was
> not much for us but we later worked out that we gave her about 3-4 weeks
> pay.We had booked everything through Intourist. The border between Romania
> and Ukraine was a wide ploughed strip of land..so they could check for
> footprints of illegal bordercrossers,and watchtowers with armed guards on
> the Soviet side. Photography was strictly forbidden...so we sent out one
> of
> our female travellers named Norma,wearing short shorts and a tight
> sweater,and while the binoculars were focused on her our cameras got very
> busy!! Intourist had us staying in a sort of Youth Hostel which was
> actually
> quite comfortable..and there were places to eat.We got friendly with some
> local talent and got taken swimming at the Valya Kozmy,and there too was a
> "budke" with nice food. Interestingly,we met some elderly Jewish people to
> whom I spoke in German, and when Paul asked how come they spoke such good
> German the answer was" aber naturlich,wir sind doch Oesterreicher!! And
> this was a few years after 1918!!!! Cornel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-6112994-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-6112994-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of HARDY BREIER
> Sent: 17 July 2010 05:37
> To: CZERNOWITZ-L; Arthur von Czernowitz
> Subject: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz
>
> http://pics.livejournal.com/whasup/pic/00rf26gs
>
> The sidewalk cafes business in Cz. is booming.
> On the Herrengasse alone 8 cafes are now in operational.
> The name "cafe" is misleading : they are restaurants in all respects.
> And this on Herrengasse alone - there are many more around.
> I remember tales from tourists from the Soviet era where stray
> tourists didnt find a single restaurant in town. There were'nt any.
> There were some workers canteens (stolovaya).
> Czernowitz was restricted area - out of bounds for tourists.
> If some locals read this post - please tell us more about this period.
> Arthur too visited Soviet Cz - please give us the story .
>
> Hardy
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