Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Anthem for my Romania

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In my ideal world, the one in which multicultural traditions and roots are recognised and celebrated, rather than fought against and rejec...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Cosmopolis

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(Posts on this blog are like buses, you wait months for one and then two come along at once) This weekend (the weekend recently completed...
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Hay ewe

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This article from National Geographic is excellent and tells a very good story of what life is like and how things are changing around he...
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 ...