Monday, September 29, 2008

Transylvania Cliche Watch (1)

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This week sees the visit of Chelsea FC to Transylvania to take on CFR Cluj in the Champions League (Chelsea aren't actually champions, b...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

How many Romanians does it take to change a light bulb?

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I have been changing light bulbs for the best part of 30 years, now, and for around 20 of those I have been the primary light-bulb-replacer ...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Aj em fajn tenks

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The title to this post was taken from Bogi's school notebook (or copybook as it seems to be called). She is, you see, now learning Engl...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Curious Case of (The Football Team From) Timisioara

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Over the last few years a very strange story has been played out as regards the main football team in Timisoara. I'd give you their nam...
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With friends like these

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I've recently been perusing English language blogs that have the word Romania in them for research/laughs. It's quite remarkable ho...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Inglia

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In the second of our holidays this year (hark at us, two foreign holidays and owners of an out-of-town estate for weekending. Fancy bastar...
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Alacant let go

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What can I say about Alicante/Alacant? On the negative side, it's a pretty ugly place. There is a castle on a hill in the middle of th...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Le Tour du Monde

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Way back when the Internet was new to me, I happened upon a website which was following something called the Whitbread Round the World Race....
Friday, September 19, 2008

Alacant post

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Am currently in Alicante (or Alacant as it's known in Valenciano, the local language/dialect of Catalan) working on a European Union pro...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Beyond the Palin

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So, to sum up: The USA looks quite likely to elect a man as president who's main qualification appears to be that he spent part of his y...
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