Archive for March, 2008

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Goodbye Budapest, for now…

Today is my last full day in Budapest, tomorrow I leave for London. I will be staying at a friends house in London, and bright and early Wednesday morning I leave on my tour of Western Europe. After my two week tour I will have one more night in London, then will be coming home […]

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Adulthood

Back home, I’ve always been friends with people either my age, or younger. Here, in Budapest, all my friends and co-workers are older then me, this has forced me to look at myself in a new way. Before, I would judge myself on my younger, often less mature friends. Here, I judge myself on older, […]

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Almost at the end of line


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Monday, March 17th, 2008

National Holidays in Hungary

Whats is the national holiday like in Canada? Fireworks, Lame Stage Performances, some teenagers smash some things, but all in all a pretty dull holiday. What is the national holiday like in Hungary?
Rioters smashed cars, injured journalists and fought with police following a demonstration by the Hungarian Self-Defence Movement on Blaha Lujza tér Saturday evening.
Violence […]

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Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Soviet Pigeons

Hungarians pigeons are crazy. They have no fear, obviously they still have some Red in them. One of the Soviet Pigeons walked in front of me as I walking towards it today and it didn’t move out the way - I had to walk around it, I had to get out of the way of […]

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