My parents were chalets managers and I spent my childhood with the tourists in the mountains at Poiana Neamţului’s chalet near Avrig.The schools in Bucharest and Sibiu showed me the rigor of mountains’ life and the temptations of the city.At the beginning of the seventies, as a student in Bucharest, at the Faculty of Foreign Trade I was part of the golden generations of Romania’s guides who have actually built the offer of international tourism during the years of tourism’s glory in Romania.