Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Random observations on Lithuania

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Lithuania used to have an empire which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. That’s something I never knew. In the supermarket I saw ...
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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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Monday, May 22, 2006

More bafflement

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Back by popular demand, the continuation of the alphabet of baffling things about Romania. I suspect it will go slowly, and possibly never ...

Eurovision

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Lithuanians are really, really into the Eurovision Song Contest. On Saturday night I went out into the old city with Richard, an English b...
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Friday, May 19, 2006

Update

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I can exclusively reveal that moving house is hellishly exhausting. I've never done it before, or at least not properly. All my moves ...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Moving

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Sometime this week we will be moving (By sometime, I mean Satrurday. Or Sunday, if things fall behind schedule). We have been lucky in tha...
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Monday, May 08, 2006

Magyarisms

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English has, I’m told, 6 words which come to us from Hungarian. One or two of these words are only used to illustrate Hungarian concepts or...
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Thursday, May 04, 2006

May Be Cold

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April was very springlike and warm. May, so far, has been cold - at least here, May 1st, we celebrated international workers day in Marosvas...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Romanian Accent

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Romanians are very cavalier with their accents. By accents here, I mean not regionally diverse ways of speaking, but diacritical marks on l...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

Nasal Octopus

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This has been a bad couple of weeks healthwise. Bogi came down with mumps (conveniently "mumpsz" in Hungarian) while I was away. ...
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