Showing posts with label ice hockey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice hockey. Show all posts
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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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, 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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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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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Grandstand

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Time for a short Transylvanian sporting update. Starting, obviously, with Ice Hockey, since that's what Csikszereda lives, breathes, and...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Sporting update

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A couple of pieces of sporting news to report today. Most relevant to Csikszereda is the news that Steaua Bucharest ice hockey team (not to...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Ice, Sun, and Shopping

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We won! When I say "we" of course, I mean Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc, who finally triumphed in the Romanian ice hockey championshi...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

The Mikulás

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The Mikulás is coming. I think he's due on Wednesday. The Mikulás, in case you're not up to date with these things, is known in En...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

I'm still here

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Apologies for the huge lack of activity here of late. Been pretty busy writing stuff, driving back and forth to Cluj (for some reason the N...
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Local news

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There's an awful lot of construction going on at the moment here. I mean it's not Dubai, but things do seem to be moving (not sure ...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

The World in Csikszereda

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It's not often that your town gets to host a World Championships in something. Well, it probably happens daily if your town is New York...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Move along now, nothing to see here.

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Back from a quick visit across the Carpathians to Bucharest, but since I didn't get home till about 3am, I'm a bit spaced out today,...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Titbits

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Half way through a long and difficult to write post about the big health scare of last week. Maybe I'll get it done tomorrow sometime. ...
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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Weekend cancelled

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The weekend got cancelled. Well, not literally obviously, since I'm typing this at the weekend. But in the sense of our romantic trip ...
Sunday, March 13, 2005

Greece is the Word

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Not really a proper blog post, as I'm in a cafe, and don't have the time, wherewithal, or desire to spend a long time writing. Howe...
Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Random Bollocks

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Ice Hockey Update A breathtaking weekend in Csikszereda saw the home town heroes crush the Bucharest scum 3-1 on Friday night. This brought ...
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Monday, February 21, 2005

The curious incident of the dog in the minivan

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I realize that I haven’t spent a lot of time talking about the weather. A serious omission for someone of my background I realize. And as I ...
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Monday, February 14, 2005

Of Ice and Men

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The Romanian ice hockey “Superliga” consists of 6 teams. (I’ll leave it up to you to guess whether that’s because it genuinely is a superlea...