It was always fashionable, nay necessary, to find a new place every year where to flee from the brutal cold of a Canadian winter. Getting to Florida was easy, so it was first...
Montreal is a cruel place in winter: cold, and snowy, with people in thick coats and heavy boots on streets that are hard to navigate. I was getting older and less and...
When you examine a twenty-five cent Canadian coin closely (we call them “quarters”) you’ll find the image of an animal on it that looks like a cow with horns on its...
I was forewarned before I emigrated from Europe to Canada that winter was to be very seriously taken in Montreal so I purchased a pair of galoshes (in North America they were...
Yes, Amerika with a “k”. That’s how we spelled it in Budapest after World War II, idolizing the United States, looking up to it as the shining hope for democracy world-wide....
My Hungarian friends are big-time foodies. They think, talk, write and worry about food all the time. Of late, they have begun campaigning for me to visit Slovenia because – in...
The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe, (2,850 km) after the Volga in Russia. It flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest south into the...
In the early ‘90’s I foresaw that, for Mergers and Acquisitions professionals (my specialty) the Hungarian Government’s decision to start privatizing the businesses ...
My buddy Bill turned seventy a couple of days ago and we decided to host a serious dinner in his honour. The event turned out to be a great success, mostly, I suspect, because I...
Iceland is a small country (forty thousand square miles – about the size of Hungary), an island in the North Atlantic between Europe and North America. It is peopled...
