British Ambassador Paul Brummell recited "The Lake" poem by Mihai Eminescu near Ipotesti, on Monday, in celebration of the National Culture Day. In a video recoding that the British Embassy in Bucharest posted, Brummell explained where he is: near the village of Ipotesti, the place where Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu spent part of his childhood, near the lake which is said to have inspired this poem.
"It's a romantic poetry, it's a poem about a young man who daydreams besides a lake, he dreams of a beautiful young woman appearing to him from out of the lake," explained Paul Brummell in the video recording, before reading the poem "The Lake" ("Lacul" in Romanian - editor's note) in Romanian language.
Mihai Eminescu's birthday was on January 15, which is also the National Culture Day in Romania, with many cultural events being organized in Romania and abroad on this occasion.