Stories from travels in

Hungary

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Edward de Bono once joked with me that I could have a case for the Court of Human Rights. He reckoned that between the whole

Forgive? Forget?

Sometimes when we least expect it, the universe conspires to remind us of stuff that should never be forgotten. I can see the merits of

The signs are there

A day off for me is one on which I don’t have to make any decisions. Tell me where to go, what to do, when

Meat on Mester

I’d heard rumours that there was a … not a butchers in the Irish definition of the word and not a meat market in the

The other five million

Of the 11 million said to have perished in the Holocaust, five million were not Jewish: they were Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses, university professors from the

The graveyard school of life

A dead man here. Another one there. This one in his 60s. The other in his 80s. Beloved father, husband, son. An inevitability. Yet to

A slice of Communist pizza

I’m all for quirky. Give me somewhere different, with a twist, over conventional design any day of the week. Throw in some good pizza and

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It’s very easy to get into a rut, to do the same thing day in, day out. Comfort zones are attractive because they are …

Budapest – I’m sorry

I like theatre. I like the stage. And I’ll even confess to liking musicals. When I lived in London, I went twice a week. I

No foolin’

I managed to get through the whole of 2013 without succumbing to the many invites from Young Malcolm to join one of his IHBC hikes.