Hungary
Blogging from Budapest
I have to say that I really love Web 2.0. This morning I have been enjoying the benefits of being able to check my email through an Outlook browser interface, read through my RSS subscriptions with Google Reader and bookmarking several sites using my del.icio.us account. Here I am on a friend’s computer in Budapest, [...]
Hungary is on my mind
I took this picture last March while visiting Budapest, Hungary . It is a memorial to the 1956 revolution against the Soviets in Hungary. This October marks the 50th anniversary of that failed revolution. I did a paper on the revolution when I was in college.
I find it ironic that as we [...]
Hungarians the least happy people
A survey released in October by market research company GfK NOP found that Hungarians are the least happy people. This only serves to support what I have observed in over 16 years of ministry involvement in Hungary. The survey sites some of these factors as reasons why Hungarians are not happy:
the worst tobacco death rate [...]
In Search of a Hungarian Train
I have now been to Hungary 6 times in the last 16 years. One “souvenir” that I would like to have but have not yet acquired is a model or toy Hungarian train (like the real one pictured on the left).
During my first visit to Hungary in 1990, I rode trains up and down the [...]
Budapest Mission Trip
I returned late Monday night from my mission trip I took to Budapest, Hungary. I really enjoyed the week. I had a couple of opportunities to take pictures, which is one of my hobbies. The picture to the right was taken on March 15 which is an important holiday in Hungary. All the bridges were [...]