Comments on: Târgoviște http://thetarpit.org/2019/targoviste "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:14:13 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2019/targoviste#comment-3884 spyked Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:01:04 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2019/targoviste#comment-3884 <blockquote>Long story short: Târgoviște is a clean little town, fulla young ones and plenty of stuff to see. It takes more than a day to see everything, but even if you plan to go there for a short trip, the second one isn't really worth it.</blockquote> About... what? three-four years later? I've actually made the second trip and all I can say is that I was wrong. I wasn't wrong in my observation that the town is slowly turning into a cheap copy of Bucharest, which it is, <a href="http://thetarpit.org/2022/brasov-yet-again?b=I%20swear&e=.#select" rel="nofollow">among others</a>. I wasn't wrong in my observation that there's plenty of orcs roaming around either, but this ain't much of an observation, given that most Romanians fit the description. Beneath this superficial layer, however, there lies another. The Chindia Tower not only still stands, but it even looks better than last time. Moreover, the food downtown is miles better (and sans pretense to "fine dining") than the one in Bucharest; and more importantly, the smart folks in and around town are connected and they're presently working to reject the unsmart ones. It's not an easy job and it comes with heavy costs, but the costs are slowly rebalancing as some of the new kids grow unimpressed with the <a href="http://thetarpit.org/2021/on-technology" rel="nofollow">technologist</a> mumbo-jumbo and as they are otherwise inclined to learn from their betters. Thus <a href="http://thetarpit.org/2020/but-do-yall-really-still-believe-in-coincidences?b=Mangalia,&e=be.#select" rel="nofollow">the prediction</a> holds... so far.

Long story short: Târgoviște is a clean little town, fulla young ones and plenty of stuff to see. It takes more than a day to see everything, but even if you plan to go there for a short trip, the second one isn't really worth it.

About... what? three-four years later? I've actually made the second trip and all I can say is that I was wrong. I wasn't wrong in my observation that the town is slowly turning into a cheap copy of Bucharest, which it is, among others. I wasn't wrong in my observation that there's plenty of orcs roaming around either, but this ain't much of an observation, given that most Romanians fit the description.

Beneath this superficial layer, however, there lies another. The Chindia Tower not only still stands, but it even looks better than last time. Moreover, the food downtown is miles better (and sans pretense to "fine dining") than the one in Bucharest; and more importantly, the smart folks in and around town are connected and they're presently working to reject the unsmart ones. It's not an easy job and it comes with heavy costs, but the costs are slowly rebalancing as some of the new kids grow unimpressed with the technologist mumbo-jumbo and as they are otherwise inclined to learn from their betters.

Thus the prediction holds... so far.

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