Showing posts with label transylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transylvania. 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, 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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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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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Katalin Varga (film review)

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So a couple of weeks ago we watched Katalin Varga, a film made by a British director, set near here and filmed in Hungarian (mostly) and Rom...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Along the Enchanted Way (book review)

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William Blacker is an Englishman who lived in Romania for 8 years from 96-04. This book is part travelogue, part autobiography, part love ...
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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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Thursday, February 25, 2010

I'm trying to run a hotel here

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This is typical. Absolutely typical... of the kind of... ARSE I have to put up with from you people! You ponce in here, expecting to be ha...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Between the Woods and the Water

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Ages ago, a friend of mine urged me to read “Between the Woods and the Water” by Patrick Leigh Fermor, which is the second volume of a three...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Spring springs

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Spring made a brief appearance here back in early February, decided it didn't really like being out so early and went back in to hiberna...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Csikszereda in the Indepedent

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Just got the following link thanks to Lucy Mallows (who wrote it, and has a fascinating blog on Budapest here ) - it is a potted version (...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

Going for a song

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Who among us has not pondered listlessly on what a traditional Szekely peasant house looks like? Who can honestly say that they haven't...
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Friday, July 04, 2008

Milking it

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A couple of years ago, I pondered on the impact that EU membership would have on the small farmers of Romania. Just to clarify, the farmer...
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Friday, May 02, 2008

Spelunking Today

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Well, yesterday, really. We spent our May 1st holiday underground in a cave not too far from here called Sugo Barlang (where barlang means ...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Two legs better

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There's a famous story, or parable I suppose, which I'm quite sure you've heard before, but I'll repeat it anyway, because I...
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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Transylvaniara

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When one arrives at Luton airport to take the plane to Cluj, there is no mention of the city to which the plane flies - the departure boards...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Dracula

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I had been meaning to re-read Dracula for ages. It was probably 20 years ago when I first read it, and ever since I moved to Transylvania I...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

Csikszereda's annual moment in the sun

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Once again it's that time of year, the weekend when Csikszereda briefly takes centre stage and becomes the most vibrant city in Eastern ...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Random links, tags, and swearing

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While I think about all the things I should write about (the Basescu suspension, more on Autonomy, the Rosia Montana gold mine, blah blah et...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Blog of a Death Foretold

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So, yesterday we went to Gyergyószárhegy, which is a village about an hour north of here to witness the funeral of the Farsang. [Szárhegy, a...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

"Subjective Transylvania" - a review

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Recently (at the end of a fairly fractious exchange in the comments section of my post on the Romanian Orthodox Church's attempt to Roma...
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