Friday, June 14, 2013

International fame

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Video from the Trans World Sport programme about HSC Csikzereda hockey team.  Some bizarre pronunciations and some very weird historical er...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Climb down

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Sadly, Csikszereda's most famous son,  Zsolt Erőss, (or  Erőss   Zsolt technically) died last week on his way down from the summit o...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Romanian Education System (brief reprise)

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I thought I had finished with this series, but every now and again something comes along to remind me of what a bunch of useless cretins ru...
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Last one on this subject

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Ok, my last comment on Thatcher (probably) It was good to see that the news has finally recognised that there are people who are not really...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Video about this region

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This is worth a watch if you want to see where I live. Though obviously, as with all YouTube clips, avoid the comments like the plague.  Th...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Fire and Traffic interface excitement

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A small coda to my recent post on Vietnamese traffic.  While in  Danang, on a couple of occasions I sat at a riverside bar and watched as t...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Good riddance

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Predictably there's a lot of bleating about how one shouldn't speak ill of the dead, or a plea for some decorum in the response to ...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

The beauty of traffic

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Ha Long Bay. You know the one I've been in Vietnam for the last two weeks, my third visit in the last three years.  It's a gre...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Don't tell me...

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I've been away for two weeks, and am currently writing from an airport on my way home.  Please tell me this flag bollocks has blown ove...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Notes from the new front line

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The flag debate drags on and on and ... Political capital is made by both sides in perpetuating it. Easy to whip Romanians into a fury ov...