Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
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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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Whinging Poms

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Or is it whingeing? The Internet seems divided . Last week some friends and colleagues ran what I can only describe as a fantastic week-long...
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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Stories from the apocalypse

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If you rely on the UK media for your news you may be under the impression that the current volcanic dust problems are affecting (a) holidaym...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Ash Thursday

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So, today I have managed to check off the "get delayed by volcanic ash" item from the "Things I must do before I snuff it...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Contradictions

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The two stories below are connected but seem to contradict each other in some small way. See if you can spot the well hidden paradox: 1. La...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Round the Bloc

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I have had a fairly long period in Romania since my last trip (without really working it out, I suspect the longest uninterrupted period in ...
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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, December 02, 2009

An authentic must-read post

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Spent the kind-of-semi-official-4-day-weekend* in Budapest, enjoying a weekend with Mrs H (and without children), and generally having a goo...
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Monday, November 09, 2009

The trip from hell (pt 2)

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Two weeks ago, I started telling the story of my multi-legged trip across the globe . After Bucharest from where I posted that update, thin...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

The Melbourne Cup

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I never finished writing about my mega trip across the globe, and it actually did take on some extra twists and turned before it finished, b...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Onwards, upwards, downwards (repeat x5)

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Currently, I am on the mother of all trips. Was in Riga (that’s Latvia in case you don’t feel like looking it up) for the last two days, an...
Monday, October 12, 2009

5 places that tourists to Romania often visit but shouldn't really bother with

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1. Bucharest. Let's face it, it's a dump. OK, it has almost certainly the best nightlife in the country, and great cultural even...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

5 places tourists to Romania should visit

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1. The monasteries of Bucovina. Absolutely stunning places. If you have to pick only two then I would recommend Voroneţ and Suceviţa. R...
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Saturday, August 08, 2009

Police 2.0

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Just got back from two weeks working in Barcelona, from where comes this heartwarming story of modern day technology in action... One of the...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Paper View

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I have a nascent theory of the "it came to me while lying awake one night/while I was drinking a beer" variety, that you can judge...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Greeced Lightning

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Back from our too-short holiday in Skala Potamia, Thassos, Greece. Lots of sun, sea, sand and errrm, well that's it for obvious words b...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Crete is the word

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So, I'm in Crete. Crete is ace. Crete is the word, as they should have sung (not that Greece in general is in any way shabby or unplea...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Facts about Munich

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Six things you might not have known about Munich: In Spring they have a mini-version of the Oktoberfest called the Frühlingsfest. It's ...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Welcome to Romania

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Flew back into Romania yesterday afternoon after a project meeting in Munich. We'd parked at the airport (which will remain nameless, b...
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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