2020-01-30 08:39
Some news stories are depressing in the extreme (and seemingly there are an increasing number of these). But once in a while one comes along that is so depressing that it makes me desp… Read More
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My life in and around CsÃkszereda, also known as Miercurea Ciuc. A small town in the Ciuc Depression, Romania. I reserve the right to go off topic and talk about anything I damn well like.
2019-01-30 10:18
I've reached the conclusion that trying to fight for and advocate what is best for the UK now has to take second place to advocating for what is best for the EU. And clearly what is best for… Read More
2016-10-21 06:24
I never write here any more, I guess I've run out of things to say, but from time to time I guess events still have the power to rouse me from my apathy...So, here's the story...I am involve… Read More
2015-03-05 17:27
Lumme. I haven't posted here since the day I made it clear that Victor Ponta would win the presidential election. What a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. I'm very familia… Read More
2014-11-11 16:01
We are now firmly in the endgame of the presidential election, with Victor Ponta facing Klaus Iohannis. Regular readers of this bog will have a fairly good idea as to where my sympathies lie… Read More
2014-10-03 07:29
While the number of people in Romania continues to drop like a stone, the number of people who want to be the President of those who are left seems to be rising just as fast. At some p… Read More
2014-08-12 06:54
Anyone who is connected to me on facebook will have noticed that of late my updates have tended to be ones of support for the people of Gaza, and horror at the actions of the Israeli s… Read More
2014-07-09 03:38
There will come a time, in the not too distant future, when those who seek to justify Israel's destruction of Gaza will be looked upon as craven and disgraceful as those western communists w… Read More
2014-07-01 09:13
So, I wrote last week about the important tests for 8th graders which go a long way to deciding their next 4 years. I mentioned then that I don’t believe in testing in general, because… Read More
2014-06-27 12:34
Yesterday, I learned while watching the news, was "The Day of the Romanian Flag". WTF is that? There's also a day for the national anthem, and a day for the constitution. I am not yet… Read More
2014-06-25 09:51
Customer service in Romania is frequently (though by no means always) a haphazard affair, with there still being a significant number of places where your custom is seen as more of a burden… Read More
2014-06-23 11:40
This week is exam week for the 8th graders of Romania. Essentially, they have 2 (or 3 - see below) big exams, after which their futures (or the next 4 years of those futures anyway) ar… Read More
2014-06-16 13:39
My neighbour has just come home from Sweden. She's been working there for a month or so picking asparagus. She came home early because she started suffering from a heart condition and… Read More
2013-11-01 10:52
Recently, I started reading what seems to be widely regarded as "The Great Transylvanian Novel", which is Miklos Banffy's Transylvanian trilogy (or Banffy Miklos's if you prefer). Period lit… Read More
2013-09-30 09:28
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 heat the water and pump it around the buildings, pro… Read More
2013-09-12 06:19
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 skip the beginning of this since you all know t… Read More
2013-08-19 05:51
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" by the swimming pool at a hotel in Hungary. Each day a d… Read More
2013-07-09 12:26
In my ideal world, the one in which multicultural traditions and roots are recognised and celebrated, rather than fought against and rejected, this would be the national anthem of Romania.Ro… Read More
2013-07-03 12:37
(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, if my use of "this" is confusing), Csikszereda sudde… Read More
2013-07-03 08:29
This article from National Geographic is excellent and tells a very good story of what life is like and how things are changing around here. Csikborzsova is just up the road, and Gyimes is t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Sometimes I ask myself what I would have done if I had been German in the 1930s. I am imagining that most liberally minded Europeans have asked themselves the same (what they would have done… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
397 British MPs are so desperate to be seen to be doing something that they have decided to see how many innocent people they can kill in response to innocent people being killed. What's tha… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Romania has a new technocratic government. With politicians either corrupt or assumed to be, there is a logic to that, and the idea of having experts running the various ministries makes a l… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I was away recently, and while I was away, Hungarian prime minister came to Tusnad (near where we now live) to make a speech at the annual "Tusvanyos" event. This was the venue last ye… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I wonder if there is any town that is has produced as many successful sportspeople per head of population as Csikszereda.Novak EdouardI have gone on before about the ice hockey team and how… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
That's about as oxymoronic as it gets, I suspect, but in fact it fits.We are experiencing a very very weird winter. As I may have gone on about at some length, Csikszereda is a very cold pla… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
One of the things that the Daily Mail reading knobheads who make up a dangerously large proportion of my countrymen moan about is "health and safety". You know, how people are much safer now… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
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 of taxpayers money to a massive multinational corp… Read More
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