I really intended my last post to be the end of Romania here, but Thursday night we were awakened, at 3:25am, by sirens and fire trucks and a blaze, a few hundred yards away. Most of the "clubs" at Vama Veche have been shut down and boarded up for the season, including the Spice Club and the Expirat, but these two burned to the ground Thursday night. Walking past, Friday morning, I encountered a Romanian/American who filled me in on a bit of the back-story.
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Spice Club and Expirat before
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After
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After, again
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These clubs make tons of money just in June/July/August, when the beach holds
5,000 people every night, up to 40,000 during concerts; they are wooden/tiki
affairs, highly susceptible to fire, loose 220v wiring hanging all around, and
thousands of transients... Arson was suspected.
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A bit of excitement...and loss of sleep....
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