Friday, March 28, 2008

New Country for Old Man

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So, I'm in Podgorica. For those who haven't kept up with Europe's continued breaking into smaller and smaller bits, Podgorica i...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

East of Easter

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So, it's Maundy Thursday. No idea what that means, but it's the day before Good Friday. At least it is the day before Good Friday ...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Faux Cough (and die)

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Over the past week I have been afflicted by the cough from hell. I have no idea whence it came, but I really wish it would fu-cough back th...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Herbidaceous

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All of Romania was this week in thrall to Costel Busuioc, the "Pavarotti of the Banat" who won some kind of talent contest on Span...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

About a Toy

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I feel like my last few posts have gone a bit much down the nationalism/anti-nationalism path so I thought for a bit of light relief I'd...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

A different perspective on CFR

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Actually this has nothing to with my previous post on CFR . Every now and again I feel compelled by some strange force of habit/cultural u...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

A bit of China that is forever Austro-Hungarian

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This morning (well, it was before lunch, but probably not technically morning), we went to an exhibition at the castle here in town of stere...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

Life as a blogger

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Every now and then for my pains I get a tirade of abuse from some rabid nationalist psycho. This can appear in the form of a comment on the...
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The Great Romanian Restaurant Scandal

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I was going to write something about some US food critic called Anthony Bourdain and how he's managed to upset Romania with his less tha...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Dubai

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(I tried to cram some kind of "Du as you would be done bai" pun into the title here, but just couldn't make it work, even by t...