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  • A Weekend for Pig Killing

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    A few weeks ago, we ate at one of our regular neighborhood restaurants.  The manager is always solicitous, ensuring we understand the non translated list of specials.  On this particular Saturday, all related to the tradition of a Slovak pig… Read More ›

  • Home to Budapest

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    The last few weeks have been filled with the stuff of moving: packing and hauling and unpacking; cleaning, and purging and buying anew; connecting our cable and figuring out where to buy the best produce.  We crossed a border along… Read More ›

  • A weekend at the spa in Piestany, Slovakia

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    “Your medical consultation is at five.”   I dreaded this part, but it was a prerequisite to the treatments at the Thermia Palace spa..  “Thanks, that’s perfect.”.  Besides, a quick blood pressure check seemed a good idea after 18 months of eastern European fried… Read More ›

  • Taking the water cure…

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    Water treatments are scattered in my literary memory.  My Austrian babysitter read to me from Heidi.   In the opening pages, Heidi’s Aunt Dete takes a job in the baths leaving Heidi to live with grandfather in the Swiss alps.  Heidi’s invalid friend, Clara, visits… Read More ›

  • Three Days in Copenhagen…

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     Our daughter, Taylor, visited in January and wanted to go “someplace new”.  She’s a well travelled 20 year old – and unfortunately, the south of Europe was largely in the “been there, done that” category.  “What about Copenhagen?”   In the pros column were the 59 euro… Read More ›