2016

Serendipity, the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way, is alive and well and a resident feature of my

As the week draws to a close, I’m officially confused. Even more so than usual. Back in 2009, I went on a road-trip to Eastern

I always knew what I wanted to be when I grew up: a primary school teacher. I gave little thought to my second and third

I parked Ime on the grass inside the gate. I was basking in the glory of having off-street parking when my neighbour dropped by to

When you go to Sunday mass in a small village where everyone knows everyone, you’re bound to stick out if you’re not a local. When

Art confuses me. I know what I like and what I don’t like, but when it comes to what period came when and which artist

Hungarians puszi puszi. Americans hug. I did neither. My inner jury is out as to which took me longer to adjust to. When I first

For years I lived too far from home to visit very often and had to make do with a three-week trip every 18 months or

My first car was a Ford Fiesta. I had no say in the colour, the make, the size, the year, the price. I’d been talking

Back in 2007, someone told me that there were 23 000 flats in Budapest owned by absentee Irish landlords. I had no idea how realistic

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