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smokingbootAn easy city to enjoy. It's my first sight of the Danube. Live music sounded every night on the shores, people dancing/drinking/having a good time while lit up ships sailed into the night of East and West. One might have expected it to be raucous, overwhelming even, but it wasn't. Quiet could be found if you wanted it. The city was clean and alive with astonishing architecture; Baroque, Art Nouveau, Gothic, Neo-Classic, all sorts blending together,rooftops unlike any I have seen elsewhere, some looking almost beaded, others domes of polished metal. Here's a little of it all, though these barely scratch the surface.
After 5 serious incidents with choking food, uncountable less serious ones, several ambulances, a lot of embarrassment, and poor demi-uncle Antonio's fatal example, I had to start looking at dental surgery. This is prohibitively expensive in the UK*. Actually it's quite expensive in Hungary but the clinic has a very good reputation. We are looking at a lot of work over a fair amount of time. I don't really want to spend the money, but the truth is if one of these incidents occur when I'm alone, there's a strong chance of my meeting Antonio's fate. I have to just accept the privilege of being in a position to do this.
Because the opportunity rose quickly, I had no chance to arrange a postal vote, and have therefore missed the entire debacle of Scotland's GE and the rest of the UK's local elections. I know very well that Nigel Farage is a grifter, with less personal knowledge I am aware that Zak Polanski is also a grifter. They are reflections of demographics who feel rather than think. It's useful for their voters to see them in local government, because from what I can see, the only things they know how to run are their mouths.
*I could get angry thinking of how people in the UK suffer on account of extraordinary pricing for dental work. To get the non-cosmetic, potentially life saving work of the kind I need would cost an average of £18,000 per jaw. You could argue that if you look after your teeth and you don't have any extraordinary circumstances/hereditary conditions that harm them, it's not a problem. But if you do? Suck it up. Literally.
After 5 serious incidents with choking food, uncountable less serious ones, several ambulances, a lot of embarrassment, and poor demi-uncle Antonio's fatal example, I had to start looking at dental surgery. This is prohibitively expensive in the UK*. Actually it's quite expensive in Hungary but the clinic has a very good reputation. We are looking at a lot of work over a fair amount of time. I don't really want to spend the money, but the truth is if one of these incidents occur when I'm alone, there's a strong chance of my meeting Antonio's fate. I have to just accept the privilege of being in a position to do this.
Because the opportunity rose quickly, I had no chance to arrange a postal vote, and have therefore missed the entire debacle of Scotland's GE and the rest of the UK's local elections. I know very well that Nigel Farage is a grifter, with less personal knowledge I am aware that Zak Polanski is also a grifter. They are reflections of demographics who feel rather than think. It's useful for their voters to see them in local government, because from what I can see, the only things they know how to run are their mouths.
*I could get angry thinking of how people in the UK suffer on account of extraordinary pricing for dental work. To get the non-cosmetic, potentially life saving work of the kind I need would cost an average of £18,000 per jaw. You could argue that if you look after your teeth and you don't have any extraordinary circumstances/hereditary conditions that harm them, it's not a problem. But if you do? Suck it up. Literally.
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