Showing posts with label hungary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hungary. Show all posts
Monday, August 19, 2013

Miccsoda?

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What can you learn from a single line on a menu?  Well, at times, quite a lot... The picture is the specials at the "grill" b...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Politics week - Part 3: Hungary

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So, the UK now has a Tory prime minister and basically a Tory government. (On a side note, I discovered yesterday that I am older than both ...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Weird and unfriendly

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So, just to follow up on my last post, Solyom did end up coming, but he travelled by car (obviously as an EU citizen Romania can hardly stop...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Aye, there's the dub

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Hungarian TV is dubbed. Not all of it obviously, some of it is originally in Hungarian anyway, but foreign language films and series are dub...
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Sunday, September 02, 2007

I would drive 500 miles

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and I would drive 500 more... Friends from Budapest had booked their holidays in Brela, Croatia, and suggested that we join them. Having fin...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Munkácsy in Transylvania

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Csikszereda has been playing host to a much hyped up and amazingly professional exhibition this year (it finished last weekend). This was a...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

October 23rd

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Bit of a busy week, round these parts as I am in sole charge of the little ones, but we'll see if I can get through a quick post about M...
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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Links

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In the absence of any content from me today, I'd like to point everyone in the direction of Dumneazu's post about the peasant marke...
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

National Psychology

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I was wondering recently about the increasing tendency in the media and elsewhere to assign psychological motivations to an entire nation. ...
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Saturday, December 17, 2005

Who comes at Christmas?

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How is a Transylvanian Christmas? Who comes and gives out presents? What do they give? And what other features are there? These, I'm s...
Monday, December 06, 2004

Hungary and the referendum

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It didn't pass. Only 37% of Hungarians bothered to vote on it which means that it didn't have a quorum. Of those who did vote yes b...
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Friday, December 03, 2004

A mixed bag of stuff

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Bureaucracy day 2 First up, an update on yesterday's farcical tale of bureaucratic hilarity. Having completed all the relevant paperwork...