What Lies Beneath is the title of the column I write for the Budapest Times, the city’s monthly English-language magazine. My remit is pretty broad. I get to write about people I’ve met, places I’ve happened upon, and life in Hungary as I see it.
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If I am alone in a room, I am a person. If a woman enters, I become a man. And the more of a woman is the woman who enters, the more of a man I become. Frigyes Karinthy
Having fun with money and strangers
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To smell or not to smell
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Bamboozled into buying a bottle
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Give a little - get a lot
A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and scientist
Putting the foot back into footpath
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