Water levels remain high across the majority of Hungary’s rivers owing to snow and rain. I’m ok, but each morning starts with reading the water levels around the country. Flooding is expected to raise from this week as temperatures warm and snow melts, the National Water Authority has warned. In parts of the country the Government has stated third level emergency preparedness (the highest). Up around the smaller rivers in the west and the north-east of the country people are […] Continue reading →
Yesterday Google announced that they had updated their maps for 10 countries and regions in Europe: Andorra, Bulgaria, Estonia, Gibraltar, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. I had a quick look at “my area” of Hungary, and indeed the maps had improved a lot! Of course, updates are not without problems. So it didn’t take long before I noticed the first error and used the “Report a problem” tool in the lower right corner of the map. […] Continue reading →
It’s already been almost four years since I wrote about the 20 villages in Hungary, that got delivered a total of 4.000 tons of rubbish from Germany! According to the county police of Bács-Kiskun Megye the trash (especially electronics and waste from private households) was unlegally imported in a period from July to December 2006. The trash was brought to Hungary from Bavaria and Baden-Württenberg. About 25 tons ended up in Mindszent. Today I could finally read that next week […] Continue reading →
It’s been some time since I wrote about the German unlegal trash export to Hungary. The Hungarian newspaper has today an article and one last week that follow up on the issue. As I wrote back in 2007, it takes two to tango and that a few Hungarians became filthy rich. I guess justice will never be made. 19 Hungarians were put on trial, but only one got sentenced to prison. The mayor of Kunbaja got sentenced to 1,5 year in prison and to pay a 500.000 HUF fine. The mayor also lost the […] Continue reading →
On Thursday I came back to Norway after having been two weeks in Mindszent, Hungary. Two weeks with beautiful spring and temperatures as high as 26-27 degrees most of the time. It was also two weeks spent with family and friends. Lots of photos were taken, and they are now all available on my Flickr account as two photo sets: Julia and Mindszent 2009. As you can see from this blog entry, I spent some time on getting to know my SLR camera and Lightroom. Home in Oslo I yesterday visited […] Continue reading →
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