Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Lightbulbs

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How many politicians in Romania does it take to change a light bulb?   One or two to sign the contract handing over billions of dollars o...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

A 100 year old mirror

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Recently, I started reading what seems to be widely regarded as "The Great Transylvanian Novel", which is Miklos Banffy 's ...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Romanian Vignettes

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There is a system of heating and hot water in Romania, whereby for the (many) blocks of flats, there is a centralised building where they h...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Democracy and Rosia Montana

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There has been a big story in Romania for years now - that of the proposed gold mining operation at Rosia Montana.  Anyone in Romania can ...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Miccsoda?

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What can you learn from a single line on a menu?  Well, at times, quite a lot... The picture is the specials at the "grill" b...
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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...