Showing posts with label csikszereda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label csikszereda. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2016

Small town Romania

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I never write here any more, I guess I've run out of things to say, but from time to time I guess events still have the power to rouse ...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Sportopolis

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I wonder if there is any town that is has produced as many successful sportspeople per head of population as Csikszereda. Novak Edouard...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

Extreme Mildness

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That's about as oxymoronic as it gets, I suspect, but in fact it fits. We are experiencing a very very weird winter. As I may have go...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Health and Safety

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One of the things that the Daily Mail reading knobheads who make up a dangerously large proportion of my countrymen moan about is "h...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Notes from the new front line

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The flag debate drags on and on and ... Political capital is made by both sides in perpetuating it. Easy to whip Romanians into a fury ov...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Sign of the times

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Over the course of the now 8 years since I've been here (8 years!  Lumme), the state of the economy has been visible from observing the ...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

(Girl)friend in a koma

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I went to a christening on Saturday, in which we (and a whole host of others) became godparents (I can only assume that the two actual paren...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Before the fall

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It feels like summer didn't happen this year. May and June were appalling weather-wise, and I spent July and August out of the country w...
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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Greet Expectations

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that there are very few places in the world where the act of greeting someone on the stre...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

That time of year again

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This Saturday is the Pünkösdi búcsú the biggest pilgrimage in Eastern Europe, where Hungarian Catholics from wherever you might find Hungari...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Microclimates

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I occasionally forget that I live in a microclimate. It is well known (at least within Romania) that Csikszereda is the coldest place in th...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Is there a Monoathlon?

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To my surprise I have found myself getting into the Winter Olympics of late. Partly because this is because we have a genuine bona fide loca...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Where is Kauf anyway?

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Csik/Ciuc has a new large, ultra-modern supermarket (in case the title doesn't tell you, it's Kaufland). It's dead fancy, but n...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Le Tour de Ciuc

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I've always been a big fan of the Tour De France. Well, I say "always", but obviously that's an exaggeration, since for m...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Csikszereda: going to the Blogs

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A few weeks ago, I reported on the blog competition that was going on here. Well the competition closed yesterday and the winners were ann...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Local News News

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For many years I have been the English language voice of Csikszereda, the place that people discovered when they searched for English langu...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Best place in Romania and Hungary combined

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I have decided to declare a unilateral ceasefire in my current angry rants on the state of the World's media and their signing up to the...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Four heads are better than two

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So, nothing much happened at the big head-of-state clash here on Thursday. Solyom expressed support for the idea of autonomy, and Basescu s...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Double header

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There are two heads of state just outside my apartment at the moment. Is there a special term for that - a brace of heads of state? A pair?...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Brush strokes

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Yesterday I did some gardening. It's very rare that I've ever been in a position to proclaim such a thing, so I'll just ponder ...