Showing posts with label romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romania. Show all posts
Friday, November 01, 2013

A 100 year old mirror

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Recently, I started reading what seems to be widely regarded as "The Great Transylvanian Novel", which is Miklos Banffy 's ...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Romanian Vignettes

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There is a system of heating and hot water in Romania, whereby for the (many) blocks of flats, there is a centralised building where they h...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Going back in time.

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Romania, as you may be aware, has suddenly been transfixed by political shenanigans. As I mentioned a couple of months ago , the previous g...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

It's all gone a bit victor-y

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Another (insert large period of time) has passed since I last wrote here, but hell, you get what you pay for, I imagine. Two weeks ago I ...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Romanian Education System (brief reprise)

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This is a sort of coda to my post on money in the Romanian education system  (or rather the lack of it). I still have to write the third in ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

My Hopes for Transylvania in 2012

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It's the New Year, and I have a dream, and all that... I have this utopian vision in which people get over their need to be intoleran...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

A post!

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In fact like buses, I'm hoping that after there has been none along in months there may even be two in very short order. The second one...
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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Bucharest redux

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Many many years ago, when I was keen and enthusiastic and actually used to write things in this blog, I wrote about my first real trip to Bu...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Singing in tongues

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Look! I exist! I blog. Therefore I am? It has come to my attention that more and more Romanian pop bands/singers/"projects"/entiti...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Politics week - Part 1: Romania

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It's going to be politics week on Csikszereda Musings (taking over from the last few weeks during which there were clearly a series of ...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Not thinking things through

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According to the survey data reported here , among the depressing findings that 91% of Romanians would like to reintroduce the death penalty...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Sign of the signs

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A very important addition to the Romanian road side. Particularly for people who are not familiar with the fact that driving through any vi...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Beer news

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Romanian beer is decidedly average. The best of the mass produced stuff is Ciuc, made here (and I don't say that because it's a loc...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Romania in the grip of violet flame conspiracy

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Just to balance the last post I made, at least in the sense of showing that the British system isn't the only one that is built on a ste...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

More media coverage of 1989

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Obviously I could just list a bunch of articles here, but I've tried to handpick the most interesting ones The BBC: "Eljen Laszlo ...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Climate, weather, and revolutions

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Happy Anniversary Today is December 16th, which means it's the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the revolution here, which began on ...
Wednesday, December 09, 2009

The Romanian Elections - FAQs

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Idly flicking through the news today around the net (does one "idly flick through" websites or do I need a new phrase here?) it is...
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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Dirty Tricks

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Everyone got an anonymous card in the mail this morning here, with a quote from Basescu (in Hungarian) saying that there would never be auto...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The political divide

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Interesting map of how the country is divided: Orange counties voted for Basescu (basically Transylvania, Bucharest, the coast), red ones vo...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The morning after...

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As predicted below, the Presidential run off in Romania will be between (incumbent) Traian Basescu and Mircea Geoana of the PSD. So basical...
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