Monday, July 31, 2006

Malpensa? Mal Experiencia more like.

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The flight to Barcelona was not quite as simple as I had hoped. The first couple of legs went OK - trouble free drive down to Otopeni, foll...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

A toast

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I was thinking about what I could post to mark this blog's birthday (Csiki musings is two), and could think of nothing. So I thought to...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Bulgaria

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Firstly, because it’s traditional on this blog, name 5 famous Bulgarians. We drove down to the Romanian town of Calarasi, which, in all hon...
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

National Psychology

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I was wondering recently about the increasing tendency in the media and elsewhere to assign psychological motivations to an entire nation. ...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

It's Tough Kid, But It's Life

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And so begins a month or so of fairly intense travelling. Erika left this morning for Barcelona, leaving me in sole charge of Paula, much t...
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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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