Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Recycling in Romania

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At first glance recycling here is practically non-existant. There are no green or blue bins for people, no bottle banks outside supermarket...
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Monday, June 26, 2006

How the other half lives

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Last Thursday, I was privileged to take part in a ritual normally resevred for Romanians, laid on by my own trusty British Embassy. I have ...
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

World Cup Fever

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The first ever blog I did, before I even knew there was such a thing as a blog, or even that such a word existed (and in truth, it may not h...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Why I hate Sibiu: Advice for tourists.

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I hate Sibiu. It's officially my least favourite place in Transylvania, and possibly Romania. This is not because it is ugly - it is i...
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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Unjustice

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On Monday I had my first contact with a Romanian lorry. Shortly afterwards I had my first contact with Romanian justice. I use the last wo...
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Saturday, June 03, 2006

Pünkösdi

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For one day a year, Csikszereda is the second biggest city in Romania. That day was today, when 500,000 people descended upon us for the an...
Friday, June 02, 2006

Pilgrimage weekend

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It's pilgrimage time again in Csikszereda. As I reported last year - go to May 2005 in the archive column, and then scroll down the pag...
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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 ...