The Danube (2 page)

7 The Kneeling Oak at Karaorman: keeping the Turks safely in the ground – or a place for donkeys to scratch their backs.

8 Alexander's grandmother in Karaorman: preparing a bucketful of carp to last Alexander a week at university in Tulcea.

9 The sweet waters of the Danube mingle with the Black Sea at the southern mouth of the Danube near Sfântu Gheorghe.

10 Babadag – Recep Lupu's wife and mother-in-law. ‘In the Pentecostalist church, you can marry who you wish!’

11 Gypsy girl in Babadag. ‘And anyway,’ Regina adds, ‘if we stayed at school, the boys would steal us.’

12 Mitya Alexi, fisherman in Ghindărești: ‘In my household, money is like the Danube. It flows through our fingers!’

13 Nikita Ivan, fisherman in Ghindărești: unravelling a net the colour of his full beard.

14 Momi Kolev and a camel called Emir, Koloseum Circus, Ruse, Bulgaria. ‘In Bulgaria…we enjoy life!’

15 Air pollution on the Romanian shore. A storm gathers over Nikopol in Bulgaria, site of the defeat of the last Crusade in 1386.

16 The Iron Gates from the water, looking upstream towards the Church Above the Water, which replaced the Church Beneath the Water.

17 Danube dawn at Eselnița, looking downstream towards the lost island of Ada Kaleh, across the storage lake formed by the Iron Gates dam.

18 Siege damage on the water tower at Vukovar: The doves of peace have taken over Vukovar's war monument.

19 Wetlands at Kopački Rit. ‘They [hunters] have to realise that now they have to move over, and make way for the nature conservers’: Tibor Mikuska.