by budedawnadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | article
On Fat Thursday in Krakow, you eat Pączki (filled doughnuts) as people run around with box loads of them. They are of heavy consistency, filled with sickly sweet-scented rose-flavoured jam. Some are better than others, and some of the jam is better than others, too!...
by budedawnadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | article, Uncategorized
As it was recently Holocaust Memorial Day, it seemed pertinent to include my writing from my first visit to Auschwitz. Back in the mid-1980s, I was in Linz when my friend told my partner and me that she was going to take us to a place we would never forget. She was...
by budedawnadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | article
Now we have Brexited, I’m resurrecting a few blog posts set in Europe. Belgium is seriously underrated. With its reputation as a boring country with little to commend it, the question on everyone’s lips if you visit is: why? The question on my lips is why does...