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Maybe it’s because I’m not a Londoner, that I love London so. I grew up in Sussex just an hour away from the capital, but the journey on the train was always so expensive that the only opportunities I had to experience life in the big city were when my parents would take me to watch sport. My Dad and I used to lose our voices singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" at the Twickenham rugby 'Sevens' each spring, and bring fleeces and flasks to watch cricket at Lord's or the Oval every summer. My Mum took me to the Olympia horse [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 1st 2009 | 308 Views | [diary=342979]

London: a wonderful city.
Fun in the sun.
Rainy street.

The best answer to why I haven't written anything since August is "I've just been too busy": when the law firm where I was working finalised a merger I found myself doing three jobs - translating, editing and proofreading - for two companies. I worked late most nights before going straight home to bed. It was a stressful autumn, but there were good moments: sipping hot chocolate with Ana on Saturday evenings in the Shokoladnitsa café on vulytsya Chervonoarmiyska; finding a homeless puppy at the entrance to our building one Friday night and taking care of it for a few days; [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 1st 2008 | 500 Views | [diary=338892]

Dynamo Kyiv fans celebrate a goal against Arsenal
St. Michael's monastery
"Coffee House"

I haven't got around to writing much since my trip to Hungary last summer. I would be lying if I said I haven't had the time - it's more a case of me having lost my mojo, now I'm not able to scribble my ideas down in lunch-hour long bursts and without Mr. Volkov's coffee machine to boost my imagination. Perhaps one day an article about Budapest will materialise; I still have my notes, and some of them even make sense. The Hungarian word for 'flowers', virag - written on florists' windows across Budapest - sounds like the Russian word for [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 13th 2009 | 250 Views | [diary=308956]

Cherubs.
Budapest panorama.
Budapest skyline.

I haven't got around to writing much since my trip to Hungary last summer. I would be lying if I said I haven't had the time - it's more a case of me having lost my mojo, now I'm not able to scribble my ideas down in lunch-hour long bursts and without Mr. Volkov's coffee machine to boost my imagination. Perhaps one day an article about Budapest will materialise; I still have my notes, and some of them even make sense. Below is the beginning of a story I wrote about my journey from Hungary to Ukraine: [i [View Full Entry]

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Published: February 17th 2009 | 115 Views | [diary=308955]

Pest street.
The Basilica.
Pest street.

Buda Square.
Buda Square.
Budapest.
I haven't got around to writing much since my trip to Hungary last summer. I would be lying if I said I haven't had the time - it's more a case of me having lost my mojo, now I'm not able to scribble my ideas down in lunch-hour long bursts and without Mr. Volkov's coffee machine to boost my imagination. Perhaps one day an article about Budapest will materialise; I still have my notes, and some of them even make sense. Below is the beginning of a story I wrote about my journey from Hungary to Ukraine: "An hour [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 16th 2008 | 240 Views | [diary=308953]

Statue, Buda.
Budapest panorama.
Shoe memorial - for those who were killed during the Second World War.



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