Military Park

Yet another of my favorite parks! Well, okay, it isn’t really a park by conventional standards. I mean, it’s a parking lot with a few old tanks and planes in it. And some old bits of construction equipment for good measure. I guess the Russians left some broken hardware behind and the Moldovans said, “Well what the hell do we do with this shite?” and they stuck it someplace. But then some wino guy who drank vodka inside the plane’s cockpit realized that occasionally people wandered over to gawk at the tanks and he thought, “By gum, I can say I’m sort of the caretaker here and charge money for this!” and so a park was born. Or a … place, with old tanks. And planes. At any rate. But I mean, you can climb on them! Woo hoo! You can like pretend you are a Soviet soldier, like, sitting in a tank, sort of, drinking vodka and being all cold and thinking, “Damn I’m cold. When the hell do I get to leave this tank?” You know, or kinda.

Okay, it really is fun. For Moldova…

A side note: This place is just across from the “Ptitsa (bird) Market” where they sell pets and hardware supplies, all at one convenient place! And kitty corner is the prison! Happening crossroads that, what what!