Cigarettes and alcohol

Well, living in two places, you start to get a handle on what’s cheap where (though I struggle to think of anything that can actually be described as cheap in London).

Anyway, I …

There’s always a song

Over the new year I spent some time, with a friend, dipping into Second-Hand clothes shops, of which there are many (oddly often identified by Union Jack, and sometimes Dutch, flags). Anyway, in …

Sliding doors

It’s a funny thing living it two cities, one week here, the next week there. As I walk to work in London I think ‘was I really living Budapest last week?’ and vice …

New = Good?

When you live somewhere you get used to the order of things and the value you put on them. So, in a new place, it sticks out when something messes with the order. …

Why?

I came to Budapest to fall in love. Not with a girl (though it’s wise to keep your heart open to such things, and it happens to be the city where that last …