Bled

Bled

Wednesday 31 December 2014

So This Was Christmas



It started with Easter weather, but went on to become quite polar. The cats did not break the tree, hard as they tried, but the little one tested her first snow. The red star shone on, and I can still find a store or two that sells Christmas candles for dinosaurs like me. All in all, a great success.























Wednesday 24 December 2014

The Christmas Post

Crăciun Fericit! Boldog Karácsonyt! Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël Buon Natale! Hyvää joulua! Frohe Weihnachten! Feliz Navidad! God Jul! Срећан Божић! Bon Nadal!











Wednesday 17 December 2014

December Sunday in Bratislava

I kind of failed to properly make it to any of the Budapest Christmas fairs this year, don’t really know why, it seems as if December just shrunk into something like half a week instead of being one whole proper month. And I still refuse to do Christmassy stuff in November. Vienna on the other hand is wonderful but one more Asian tourist sticking their minute camera into my grog and I won’t assume further responsibility for my deeds.

So we said let’s give Bratislava a try. Well Bratislava herself didn’t try all that much, and kept on being a tiny Prague. And that includes good beer. And good beer is success even if I can safely conclude that for the hot wine you don’t really need to move out of Budapest. Which means the Hungarian railway company won’t double your travelling time because..well, they felt like it, I guess, but that of course isn’t Bratislava’s fault after all.