Much to say, but for now: We are sick with some uncivil stomach-bug, which first attacked our friend Grigo after a night of drinking in Sibiel, a little Carpathian village known for its glass icon museum and its local spirits, and has now moved to Aimee and I.

Grigo’s family friend Valerica, who serves as a guide at the museum, is the daughter of a family described by Grigo’s father as the “Johnny Walkers of Transylvania” — orchard-owners, who at one point made a prodigious amount of spirits. She does not drink herself, but as we stopped by the museum for directions to another village distiller’s home, she saw how pale Grigo had become, and told him that if he was sick, the best thing he could do for himself was to take a medicinal dose of plum brandy.

I am on my way to do this now.

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