Family Life

Today was my last day at work here in Hungary, a relief and a worry at the same time. It has been a good week, simple, with easy-going people, good weather, good food, plenty of sleep. But I’m keen to go home. Debbie and the boys are sick and really need some support. I’ll breathe [...]

Work got off to a slow start this week, but we’ve now hit our stride and it’s all going full steam ahead. Too bad it’s Thursday and my week is over tomorrow. Still, I’ve accomplished most of what I came to do, so it has been a successful week after all. I’ve been drinking copious [...]

I received another lesson in Hungarian today. A standard greeting ends in “eshti”, which is the “And You” part of “How are you today?” “Fine. And you?” You have to be careful not to say “ashti”, which roughly means “Be nice to me (or else)”. The French guys told me that the French expression for [...]

Doors everywhere say H

After weeks of planning, rescheduling and false starts, I’m finally in Gy?r. Yes, it’s impossible to get that double accent on an English keyboard. It won’t even transfer correctly from the Microsoft Character Map utility. The easiest is to copy and paste from Wikipedia. The gy is pronounced like the g in edge, and the [...]