Sunday, December 23, 2007

Compliments of the Season

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Eid Mubarak, Crăciun fericit, and Boldog Új Évet. I'm off line for the next two weeks, enjoying the festive fun and frolics with variou...
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, December 14, 2007

In a round about way

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When I arrived in Romania , which is not that long ago let’s face it, there was, to my knowledge, not a single roundabout in the country. ...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Uninteresting miscellany

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Just discovered through a friend that the Romanian Orthodox Church in London (which actually exists inside another church called St Dunstans...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Reforming Paula

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I'm quite sure there's some pithy quote that is used to make it clear that children are destined to repeat their parents' lives,...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

The Sodden Road to Samarkand

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We had one day off in Uzbekistan, so my colleague George and I decided to go to Samarkand. It is obviously one of the things that nearly ev...
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Friday, December 07, 2007

A Sense of Humor

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A few weeks ago during my lengthy blogless phase, Erika and I went to a meeting in Iasi (in Moldavia in the east of Romania ). I’d been ...
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Train travel in Romania

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You may be wondering why, after a short silence, I posted two things yesterday within about ten minutes of each other. This is because I wa...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007

Airports of Europe

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Over the course of the last couple of years I have been “fortunate” enough to experience some of Europe ’s major airports and thought I shou...

Murder in Samarkand

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Some months ago, I read “Murder in Samarkand” which is former British Ambassador Craig Murray’s account of his time in Uzbekistan, his fight...