(In praise of active vacations)     Seriously. Take a break and do it. Your will enjoy a week of healthy exercise, excellent meals and wine, the opportunity to see peaceful and prosperous old towns and the landscape along the ever-present majestic Danube. How can you go wrong? There are two main…

Haho hallellúja képzeljétek ékezetekkel tudok irni...megha idöm lenne meg valami okosat is irhatnák de nicsen, igy csak képzeljétek el hogy tudnák...ha akarnák...Magyarországra érkeztünk, Funyi tegnap megnéztük Tatát, nagyon szép volt meg jót ebédeltünk a tó mellet.Persze betüket keresni kell meg,…

1                    What is the Camino? The Camino Santiago is a network of 1000 year old pilgrimage routes (trails) in Spain leading to the provincial (Galician) town of Santiago del Compostella. Here in the grand cathedral the remains of Apostle Saint James are kept. Santiago is close to the…

Most people take pre-packaged beach vacations when going to Mexico. While I do not doubt the fun and care freeness that this involves, we prefer individually planned vacations. The latest took us to the area north of Mexico City. After landing we boarded a bus to Queretaro, a provincial capital, 3…

1                    The first day: It takes 8 hrs overnight from Toronto to land in Rome, one sleeps next to nothing.  We landed on Palm Sunday close to noon. After taking the dedicated train from the airport to the Termini railway station, we’ve bought a week-pass for the public transportation and…

Egy arizonai utleiras angolul: Spring is a good time to go; you leave Canada’s extended winter behind and arrive into a perfect summer. On Good Friday our flight from Ottawa connected via Detroit, where a regular snowstorm was brewing, delaying our departure by 2 hours and undoubtedly making the…

Tango and Bossa Nova…a brief trip to South America It takes slightly less that 11 hrs of non-stop overnight flying to get from Toronto to Buenos Aires, but there is only one-hour time difference, they are on Halifax time. Sometime in the morning the plane flies over the equator and the Amazonas…time…

Blogjaim angolul vannak irva, mert kanadai baratoknak irtam oket. Ezert elsosorban bocsanat. Hungarian Restaurants We ate out almost every day, many times with friends at places recommended by them and occasionally in establishments that I researched on blogs and in guide books. One has to be…

Before I start let me say that the week we have spent in Thailand does not do justice to what this country offers. We did not visit the beaches of the South and there are lots more to see. Thailand is one of the more prosperous countries in the Far East; it is safe to travel here. During winter…

A téma számtalanszor előfordul saját posztjaim hozzászólásainál és máshol is. Megfogadtam hogy össze fogom foglalni az erre vonatkozó gondolataimat. Elöljáróban kijelentem hogy írásom nem tárgyalja hogy miért is alacsonyabb a munkabér Magyarországon mint pl. a szomszédos Ausztriában? És miért…