Farewell

It was nice to be here, for 4 days - pity, that the weather was not as good as usual. Here there are Gina, Cristi (ARIN volonteers) and the dog Iza.

Overview

Overview: House From Mulberry Tree, Main House and landscape to South.
The fountain is no more useful now (unappropriate quality of water) but the drinking water in the touristical complex comes from a capture of an underground spring and is better than any drinking water in any town!

House From Mulberry Tree - outside

Also, I like this house because... there I'm the Lady Of Cellar :D

House From Mulberry Tree, inside

The House Under Mulberry Tree is the ideal romantic place for 2 persons :D
Inside, in a small place, there are also the facilities as shower and toilet; people can sleep down on matrisses, wihch in fact is really comphortable.
There is my favourite place - but I suspect this was in fact the hen-cop :D

Sleeping place - Corn Crib

Pity that the hay flavour can not be smelled, in the movie :)
You can see, also, from another angle, the "House Under Stars".

Corn Crib

The corn crib (or hay crib) is arranged for sleeping in hay (up); down there is space for firewood or other things.

House Under Stars - view to NW

On the other side of House Under Stars there are places for the morning coffee, smoking or... for drying equipments :) When we were taking the images, a group of speologists camped in the tents, next to the house.
The view is to the NW side of Apuseni Mountains, Codru Moma.

House Under Stars - inside

There is the most comfortable of the houses: a large room, a large bed, a sleeping place up-floor and a bathroom with all the facilities (hot water etc.). The heathing is ensured by a wood-plant, common for all the places.
The traditional aspect is kept as much as possible (including objects). The small house (with an excellent view) is wonderful for a family with children.

House Under Stars - outside

There is the exterior, 1st part; all the restorations were done in respect for tradition, with old materials when possible (the materials were treated, of course, with special non-toxic solutions).
Gina (from ARIN) is our "guide" in this series of short movies ;)

House Under Stars, backyard

The House Under Stars were in the past the pig-pen. In the backyard of the house there is a small platform for wastes, untill they are taken away. There is respected the principle of "waste separation".

Hay barn, outside

Outside the spaces were arranged in order to offer a minimum of hygienic facilities when there are many persons accomodated around (including tents): washstands and toilets; also, there are some other depository spaces.
Between the Hay Barn and the New House there is a playground for children - but children have anyway lots of trees, to climb in and eat local fruits ;)

Hay Barn, introduction

This is the former hay barn; after renovation is used to be a sleeping place; right now, it kept the sleeping place up-floor. Down there is a depository space for different tools and also a space for leisure in the rainy days. One of the walls (opposite to the stair) is a climbing wall.

Main House

Part of the entrance and the kitchen, in the Main House; the modern facilities of the kitchen were integrated in the old place, together with as many as possible old tools

Good practices example

Here is a series of short movies with an example of "good practice in renovating an old farm, in order to offer eco-tourism services". Place: Rosia, Bihor County, Romania. First movie: general presentation of the place. You can see the old houses (which kept their tradional aspect), the places for eating when the weather is good and the place for barbecues.
Also, you can see Cristi (ARIN volonteer), Iza the dog, nea Mitica (the chef) and... Trompi, The Very Wild Carpathian Cat (saved from one street in my town - and very happy, now, with his host-friend ;)
In the Main House there was the meeting place for the EDU-MONT team - can you believe that there met and there worked 21 persons? :)

Needs assessement survey, for ARIN

You can find here the "needs assessement" (of education for and in mountain area) questionnaire, in Romanian language, for ARIN stakeholders.

http://www.arin.ro/index.php?pgc=survey

Untill Jaunary 2011, 201 persons answered.

The ARIN survey was promoted on Internet, on the website of ARIN and on different Romanian e-groups. The other Romanian partner (Origini Verzi) had its own survey but mainly on printed questionnaire.

The integrated results of the survey (for all the partners) will be published in June 2011.

Eurosite

... and a very good site with news and information about environment (especially biodiversity):

http://www.eurosite.org/

You cand find here announcements like this:

http://www.eurosite.org/en-UK/content/sustainable-tourism-protected-areas-building-bridges-seeking-solutions

... that could be very useful for each partner in our project and for our beneficiaries, too ;)

European Mountain Forum

Another very interresting place is European Mountain Forum - I think that each of us (the partners in EDU-MONT) could join it, in order to offer better information and training for our stakeholders and... in order to countinuously improve our staff skills ;)

http://archive.mtnforum.org/europe/index.cfm