It’s Exactly Like Hollywood… But Completely Different.

My daughter (Peri) is really into saying oddly paradoxical things right now. She’ll come in and say things like, “she’s my best friend, but she’s not”, or “this tastes really good, but it doesn’t”. In that same vein, Brasov is JUST LIKE Hollywood… but it’s not. In fact, in virtually every way that I can think of, Brasov is NOTHING like Hollywood except that they have a giant sign for Brasov just like Hollywood has for its name set in the hills. It was kind of far away, but maybe you can see it here. It was completely ridiculous. They don’t make movies here in Brasov. There’s no “glitz” either. It’s a town left over from the Soviet era that never really grew out of it. There are no Ferrari’s here either. Or tasty local restaurants that I have seen. There’s no massive influx of tourists (just a few crazy outsiders like me), and no Figueroa or Vine. There’s no skyscrapers, no multi-lane roads, no Pacific Coast Highway (in fact, there’s no large body of water for another 100 miles or so). So, having said that, I can say that Brasov has a sign “just like Hollywood”, but in every other way, you might as well be comparing apples to oranges, or…well… Hollywood to Brasov.