Yeah…give me the British Isles any day…Scotland, Ireland, England, and Wales…I have ancestry in all those places, plus Scotland and Ireland are so beautiful!
Mmmmm Vlad the Impaler: short version. a show last night that said he and his bro were traded as collateral to the Ottomans. He wasn’t pretty so he was thrown in prison from whence he apparently learned about torture; his brother (Radu the handsome) was pretty and went into the sultan’s young man harem….what ARE those called? Once back in Romania, finding it without any discipline imposed deathly order. One account says Vlad refused to continue sending 500 Romanian boys/year (not merely for military training) to the pedofile ottomans so the Moslems came to extract their due and were very quickly demoralized by seeing Vlad’s forest of the Impaled. Not your normal PBS special.
I LOVE you guys!! Excellent taste :DHah, saw that another Vlad documentary was on. I watched one a few years ago that was more about his methods of torture and that…er, fun stuff. (His bedroom was above the dungeon so he could hear prisoners cries and screams!)
Starbossa_1341 about 12 years ago
Yeah…give me the British Isles any day…Scotland, Ireland, England, and Wales…I have ancestry in all those places, plus Scotland and Ireland are so beautiful!
glendakan about 12 years ago
Vlad the Impaler’s Castle – yes, looks a bit like Cinderella’s Castle – but the forest of the Impaled is no longer.
RoseOtto about 12 years ago
Mmmmm Vlad the Impaler: short version. a show last night that said he and his bro were traded as collateral to the Ottomans. He wasn’t pretty so he was thrown in prison from whence he apparently learned about torture; his brother (Radu the handsome) was pretty and went into the sultan’s young man harem….what ARE those called? Once back in Romania, finding it without any discipline imposed deathly order. One account says Vlad refused to continue sending 500 Romanian boys/year (not merely for military training) to the pedofile ottomans so the Moslems came to extract their due and were very quickly demoralized by seeing Vlad’s forest of the Impaled. Not your normal PBS special.
LadyChel about 12 years ago
I LOVE you guys!! Excellent taste :DHah, saw that another Vlad documentary was on. I watched one a few years ago that was more about his methods of torture and that…er, fun stuff. (His bedroom was above the dungeon so he could hear prisoners cries and screams!)