Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Friday, February 06, 2009

More tolerance news from Italy

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Piergiorgio Stiffoni (no sniggering at the back, that really is his name, apparently) who is a Senator from the ever-delightful Northern Lea...
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Friday, January 19, 2007

Unwelcome Germans

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Hurricane Kyrill has swept across us this morning after leaving Bavaria. Driving rain and high winds and a stunning rainbow have so far bee...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The unkindest cut

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A Romanian surgeon was having a bad day , and decided to (and you may wish to cross your legs now) chop off some poor bloke's john thoma...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

La Dolce Vita

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Harrowing article from today's Guardian about the plight of migrant workers (Romanians among them) in Southern Italy. Driving through ...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

"What is one more life thrown away in this sad and useless national tragedy?"

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Yesterday I was made aware of the sad story of Malachi Ritscher. The news came through a friend who had met him and himself only learned of...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Most famous Hungarian dies

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RIP Puskás Ferenc. To most non-Hungarians I know, Puskás was almost synonymous with the nation, and for most outsiders (from footballing n...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

Fall Back

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I hate it when the clocks go back. Not the act of putting them back so much, or the day itself (though I also reject this weird conceptual ...
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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 ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Quoi?

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The 11th Francophone Summit is currently on in Bucharest. At this point, you may well be asking yourself why a non-Francophone nation shoul...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Close the door behind you

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So, Romania is in. After much umming and ahhing, the EU has finally given the green light for us and Bulgaria to join. I'd write a lon...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Iskola (2)

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The mayor of Csikszereda, one Raduly Robert, is basically a cretin. His name is more or less a joke in the town, and I've yet to meet a...
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Sunday, September 10, 2006

September Song

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I'm in the middle of a particularly intense teacher training courseright now, so won't be able to do much blogging. After the 12 ho...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

Ease and Wizz

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Marosvasarhely (otherwise known as Targu Mures, otherwise known as Tirgu Mures, otherwise known -by almost no-one- as Neumarkt) has an airpo...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

In the Lebanon

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One of the biggest problems with being stuck at Milan airport for a while, was being able to take a while reading English newspapers and lea...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Gabriel Lambescu

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Just got this link from my Dad, an obituary of Gabriel Lambescu, conservation architect. Have to admit I'd never heard of him up unti...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Back Home

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Got home at about 2am on Monday. You'll be excited to hear that Harghita is now a bird flu zone and presumably other areas of Romania t...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

200th post

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Just to take my mind off my impending dotage, I thought I'd write my 200th post on this blog. Not sure what the average word count per ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

A Statement from the Vice President’s Office

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There has been a lot of criticism of the Vice President’s actions in the shooting of his friend Mr Whittington. The incident was a regretta...
Sunday, February 05, 2006

Sweeping it under the carpet

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No posts for a few days - a situation which I will be in a position to explain in a day or two. For now, I can say that the big scare we h...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

No Joke

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When I wrote a couple of days ago that the pissed up US Marine who rammed into and killed a Romanian rock star might get a slap on the wrist...