Chess-Cookies: Transylvania Drymouth!

Two Dartmouth pals jump to Transylvania for winter-logs and encounter an 'alien' detour.

A 'foreign' tale inspired by the very fun movie Transylvania 6-5000 (Jeff Goldblum). Enjoy, 

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Amlan/Raki traveled from JFK to Transylvania via Tarom and were inspired for a winter adventure after reading a special world-aesthetics feature in Vanity-Fair about the experience of modern media-world travel logs and complements of real-life experience onto the social-media culture.

They'd never been to Transylvania, though they both attended Dartmouth (New England) and were familiar with isolated winter environments of great idyllic landscapes and therefore felt somewhat confident of how they'd experience this 'alien' country and wanted iPhone-shots for a cyber-mosaic about living-culture through travel and journals.

AMLAN: I hope we meet incredibly interesting Romanian women here, pal, and absorb the 'alien' worlds.

RAKI: Yeah; there's a 'fantastic' bakery in Transylvania that should 'adorn' our Facebook-mosaic about this travel-account.

When in Romania/Transylvania, the two Dartmouth-pals decided they'd take-in the charms/flavors of the iconic bakery/sweet-shop which had become a 'mainstay' of local life and experience and decided to request the baker/owner he make them special 'chess-piece shaped' cake-cookies after getting a taste of the master's delicious and pungent pastries/cookies!

AMLAN: I want to find some vampire here and challenge him to chess-play, promising a stalemate-intrigue for culture-sharing.

RAKI: Yeah; they have very unusual chess-boards/pieces in Transylvania, you know.

AMLAN: I hope actually we don't meet any violent vampire lurkers; rather, some 'artists' of the chess-domain, eh?

RAKI: Yeah, yeah, right.

Instead of a vampire, the two Dartmouth-pals met a strange man in an insect-dragon 'Xenomorph' alien costume that winter-Xmas season in Transylvanian streets and played him 2-on-1 chess and used a rook-bishop counter-plan to match his 'stunning' queen-knight piece offensive displays and achieved a stalemate peace. Afterwards, they told the 'alien' in Romania, "You're sure more interesting than Dracula, good sir," to which the stranger eerily replied, "I'm actually a Martian, good chess-sports of Dartmouth."

BAKER: Here's those fantastic chess-cake cookies you specially-ordered, Amlan/Raki.

AMLAN/RAKI: Wow, this is the perfect 'accent' to this Transylvanian 'alien' experience worthy of a Facebook-tale of secrets!

They didn't meet beautiful Transylvanian women as they'd hoped but did meet some gorgeous pair of women in Manhattan upon return to the United States with whom they shared an exciting evening walking in the snow and sojourning in their Wingate suite and afterwards disclosed to them their 'Romanian' secret about the 'stranger' in a Xeno-alien costume who claimed he was from Mars. The two women shocked them when they stated/claimed the morning after their romance-adventure, "We know...we're his sisters (Elena/Diana), and we're Martians too, dummies."

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