Updates, Live: Vâlcov, a Little Venice Hidden in the Danube Delta

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreizackreisen/page13/)

Как бы мне сейчас хотелось в Вилкове вдруг
Очутиться!
Там - каналы, там - гондолы, гондольеры .
Очутиться, позабыться, от печали отшутиться...

(Булат Окуджава - Вилковская фантазия)

(video by acinletux)

Gica, a great friend, brought today on a chat list of words&palabras a splendid presentation of nine Venices: firstly of course the Pearl of the Adriatic, followed by Amsterdam and Giethoorn (the Big and the Little Venice of the Netherlands), Hamburg (the large Hanseatic harbor), Bruges (the Flemish city resembling to a dream), Stockholm (disputing the title of Venice of the North with some other harbors from this enumeration), Suzhou in China (it is said that before going to Heaven we have the chance to see the Paradise in Suzhou), Udaipur (the most romantic place in India), and Sankt Petersburg (the only Venice that I have seen, at least so far).

Well, Gica forgot one: there are ten Venices on the Earth! Or maybe more: but ten are those I know about.

The forgotten place in the above enumeration is Vâlcov, the little Venice hidden in the Danube Delta.

(http://community.livejournal.com/travelua_com_ua/tag/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5)

My father told me firstly about this small town situated on the Northern side of Chilia Arm. My father went there several times: by that time Vâlcov belonged to Romania. Now it is part of Ukraine, together with all Southern Bessarabia. In Ukrainian language the name of the town is Вилкове.

Some years after my father passed away I found among his photographs a postal card with the image of Vâlcov.

I found today on the web other images and some videos. The place is great. I would like to go there sometime. So far the only place I have seen in the Danube Delta is Murighiol.