Dodo Nita’s first meeting with Tintin was in 1983, at the French library in Craiova, where he read King Ottokar’s Sceptre. It was the beginning of Nita’s journey into the world of Tintin, a journey that eventually brought him back to Romania. In this new, revised bilingual edition (English-Swedish) of his publication Tintin in Romania he demonstrates that Hergé’s Syldavia was partially inspired by Romanian history and geography.