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How on earth did we end up on Mars?
In 2010, while returning to Budapest from a Toronto trip, I was entering the EU through Frankfurt airport. At the immigration booth I handed the agent my Canadian passport and watched as he...
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Oh, Kanada
(This was originally published in February, perhaps the least favourite month in Canada. I thought it only fitting to post this today; Canada Day. The photograph is French Canadian: it was taken in...
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Stomaching the wide world of cuisine
Some time ago I received a request from a reader for some cooking advice, particularly Hungarian cooking advice. I am not a chef. Nor am I Hungarian. However, having travelled and dined in several...
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Criticism is part of any healthy democracy.
Life outside the fishbowl. I have been told secondhand through a couple of invisible sources that I should be careful what I write here in the Budapest Times. Unacceptable. If you really want to know...
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Of welfare and washrooms
With an ‘earn ‘em and burn ‘em’ approach to frequent flyer miles, there comes a day when one actually has to purchase an airplane ticket with cold, hard forints and I recently had that day. Booking in...
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Words of terror and pressure, pressure, pressure.
It has been brought to my attention my blood pressure is somewhat high. I really must stop reading about Greece and watching the forint continue on its journey to the center of the earth. My increased...
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Money under the bridge
Two and a half percent of the construction costs goes to organized crime. Three and a half percent goes to elected officials and select bureaucrats. Not surprisingly, roads and bridges cost more to...
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A hard cell: How Hungary can make crime pay
Having spent one night in a Hungarian public hospital piqued my curiosity of what it would be like to spend some quality time in a Hungarian prison. As for the hospital stay, the surgeon was excellent...
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Baby it’s cold outside
During winter, many people enjoy escaping to warmer climates to lounge on sunny beaches, drink girly drinks decorated with little paper umbrellas and by evening, retire to their resort room. These...
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