Showing posts with label Budapest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budapest. Show all posts

Monday, 22 December 2008

Life in Summary





Nice...5 months of silence. How can that happen? It’s not that nothing has been happening in my life or the world at large - far from it. Here are some items in summary, in no particular order:

  • My second trip to Eastern Europe: youth camp in the mountains of Transylvania; travels in Maramures (northern Romania) in a hired VW Polo; encounters with local people
  • A long-distance relationship with an amazing girl in New Jersey. I thought long-distance relationships were well nigh impossible but it is such an adventure. The advent of Skype was a genius idea!
  • A loooong summer walk through Budapest, enjoying the architecture, the Jewish district, old book shops, parks and the River Danube.
  • A short stay in Bremen, Germany
  • Barack Obama was elected as President of the United States
  • Seeing 2 American robins in my neighbour's garden. The last time American robins were spotted in the UK was in the 1960s!!
  • Hungarian speeches at a wedding in Aberdeen
  • A week long hiking trip at Cape Wrath, northwest Scotland
  • Credit crunchiness
  • Another rainy UK summer