Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Katalin Varga (film review)

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So a couple of weeks ago we watched Katalin Varga, a film made by a British director, set near here and filmed in Hungarian (mostly) and Rom...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

(Girl)friend in a koma

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I went to a christening on Saturday, in which we (and a whole host of others) became godparents (I can only assume that the two actual paren...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Along the Enchanted Way (book review)

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William Blacker is an Englishman who lived in Romania for 8 years from 96-04. This book is part travelogue, part autobiography, part love ...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Small coincidences

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Couple of little coincidences happened this week. Firstly I was sitting in the garden reading William Blacker's " Along the Enchan...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Before the fall

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It feels like summer didn't happen this year. May and June were appalling weather-wise, and I spent July and August out of the country w...
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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Greet Expectations

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that there are very few places in the world where the act of greeting someone on the stre...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Words don't come easy

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When Bill Bryson moved back to the US (to live not far up the road from me, in fact) he wrote a book of his experiences as a long time expat...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Picking a team

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At this time every 4 years I like to hunker down and gorge myself on as much football as possible. I've never exactly been a fan of Engl...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

That time of year again

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This Saturday is the Pünkösdi búcsú the biggest pilgrimage in Eastern Europe, where Hungarian Catholics from wherever you might find Hungari...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Whinging Poms

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Or is it whingeing? The Internet seems divided . Last week some friends and colleagues ran what I can only describe as a fantastic week-long...
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