Below, photographs of Hungary and Romania, taken during the summer of 1998. Click here for pictures of my 1995 trip to the Island of Rhodes, Greece.

All © 1998, Charles Kendrick Cowdery, All Rights Reserved

Haystacks in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, near Suceava. Most agriculture in Romania is still manual and has changed little since the middle ages.

Sfatului Plaza, the center of Brasov, Romania, a fortified city in Transylvania founded by Germans in the 13th century.

Entrance to Statue Park on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, ironic repository of displaced Communist-era monuments