When I started this blog, almost ten years ago now, I called it 55 Days with Gwen. It was only meant to last for the duration of a two-month Balkan holiday with our neighbours and friends, nick-named Jay and Waddie to preserve their anonymity to a wider audience. I didn't have many followers then, but … Continue reading Who Stole September?
Garrulous Gwendoline
Hungarian Parliament Building
Hungarians consider that their civilisation dates to 896. In the next 1000 years the Magyars went from being a nomadic Central Asian tribe rampaging through the Continent, to a legitimate power, helping the Habsburgs rule one of the mightiest empires Europe had ever seen (according to Rick Steve's guidebook). The millennium celebrations of 1896 were … Continue reading Hungarian Parliament Building
The Reluctant Retiree 