Gypsies / Roma

I have met some of the roma also know by the term gypsy in Hungary...they are an amazing musical, creative and artistic peoples... But i never had a chance to see one of their caravans until the Czech republic....and as you can see from the painting of Vincent van Gogh of a Gypsy Camp near Arles in 1888, their mode of transport has remained basically the same with the passing of time... the roma or gypsy's are a nomadic peoples and have been horribly persecuted since the 12 th century.. currently the Canadian government has slapped visa requirements on the Czech population (even though it is a EU country) because they thought that the Czech government was dumping the Roma into Canada... so of course the Czech government slapped visa requirements on Canadians... which makes it hard for Canadians to stay for extended periods of time in the Czech Republic... As Aja and I continue our nomadic travels I hope for a time when the world wakes up to the fact we are all citizens of one planet and forgets this tiresome tribalism...