Walking around an interesting, obviously non-conformist part of Bucharest

Views from the Basilica in Budapest

the viewpoint at the top of the St Istvan Basilica provides a different perspective on the city with views stretching over the rooftops of the 5th District and beyond

Jurassic Balsa Budapest

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The joys of learning speaka la linga

With a Hungarian lesson looming tomorrow morning and the prospect of Katy and I doing battle over pronounciations of phrases like " 2 tickets for the ballet, please" (admittedly unlikely that I will ever utter that gem, but none the less, I found an interesting piece on the joys of learning Hungarian - written by someone with a far better understanding and journalistic bent than myself

Learning Hungarian

The end of the world is nigh

Summer storm this afternoon in Budapest and needless to say, the outlook is pretty grim!! it is dark enough to be 9pm and the whole office has suddenly become very gloomy - now is when you realise that cycling to work was not the brighest decision of the week.

needless to say, it was bright, bright sunshine till about 40 mins ago and now it looks like the opening credits of some disaster movie - I wonder if this can be blamed on Iceland as well!

Oh, and rugby training is cancelled as well for obvious reasons

Summer storms and Cicadas

After several hot and sticky days, a proper bit of crack and thump seems to be hitting the city as I land from Prague. The Buda hills seem to be basking in massive strikes of sheet lightening which really makes them stand out as some sort of weird 2D silhouette.

However, none of this seems to have upset the cicadas who still seem content to male their cheerful late evening chirping reverberate through any green area in the city - almost provencal in its sound as I came past nepliget and FTC's stadium

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Funky street light holders in Riga