Monday, April 27, 2009

Welcome to Romania

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Flew back into Romania yesterday afternoon after a project meeting in Munich. We'd parked at the airport (which will remain nameless, b...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Piece of crap jailed

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So, I go away for a couple of weeks and all hell breaks loose. Moldova turns into some kind of mini-Ukraine, and apparently Romania is to b...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Ceausescu's excrement

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I'm in the UK this week, and probably not likely to be here much, but I just wanted to mention that on Saturday night just after I arriv...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Putting on the breaks

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OK, so I’ve had a go at Hungarian TV and its love of dubbing , and now it’s the turn of Romanian TV. Not for dubbing (they don’t, they subt...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Between the Woods and the Water

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Ages ago, a friend of mine urged me to read “Between the Woods and the Water” by Patrick Leigh Fermor, which is the second volume of a three...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Muddy ethics

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Vármező (Campul Cetatii) is a small village of no great interest (mostly famous among vaguely local people as being the location of one or t...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Spring springs

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Spring made a brief appearance here back in early February, decided it didn't really like being out so early and went back in to hiberna...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Sign of the Times

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Setting: The playground in the local park. A 10-year old boy has just heard me speaking English to my daughter and has bravely approached m...
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Weird and unfriendly

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So, just to follow up on my last post, Solyom did end up coming, but he travelled by car (obviously as an EU citizen Romania can hardly stop...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

The perils of translation

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The president of Hungary, Laszlo Solyom, was due to visit here this weekend, as part of the March 15th (national Day of Hungarians) celebrat...
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