My life before My Expat Life in southern France.
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. — Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care Hungary is the long way round for Alfonz, and in many ways he is returning to the start of his journey. Myself, well although…
A day at the zoo on a glorious summer day! Why not? Kittenberger Kálmán Garden and Zoo in Veszprem is where we spent our last day on Lake Balaton. What a lucky shot of a lemur and a tortoise. Housed together, giant old turtles roam and lemur swing from trees entertaining their roommates. The Zoo, founded in…
Granola is an adjective to describe a Canadian who is uber health conscious, left-winged, open minded and possibly a hairy hippy, but not necessarily. Often confused with the pot smoking hippy; a hippy can be granola. Granola people are predominantly environmentally aware…
Living in Budapest part time does not give me any credentials on the economy, the politics or anything of that sort. What I have noticed as someone that frequents Budapest since an early age is that since they became a part of the EU, money has been invested, making some noticeable changes. Top Changes #1…
These photos were taken up by Sunnyside Park the night of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, here in White Rock, BC. The strawberry moon turns up 3 times in 100 years. It lasts 100 minutes, and the central eclipse, when the moon passed through the centre…
Yay, it’s market Day! Each morning we go out and buy our daily fresh foods, but usually we don’t make it as far as the Great Market Hall, with ABC, Tesco Express and Spar markets, all on our city block. On special days, where I might crave a fresh Langos, (fried bread) or…
The secret to all my yummy Hungarian Food!Start off by browning some onions and maybe a little garlic, a fresh tomato, a bell pepper, add salt and pepper, 1 tablespoon Hungarian paprika, stir the whole time, add your chicken, pork or beef cover and turn down to med-low for one hour and you have the base for Hungarian…
‘To have another language is to possess a second soul.’ Charlemagne France and Hungary have the lowest English proficiency rates in all of Europe. The question becomes what are they doing wrong when it comes to teaching English? France and Hungary may as well be Mars and Venus in relation to each other, neither having…
When we are not living here our apartment rents out. I love the old feel of this home, the high ceilings the low windows. One of my favourite things is to sit in the window sill as I drink a cup of coffee in the mornings. The sounds of the rushing daily life carries to…