Christmas in Pécs
Spending Christmas and New Yerwith my girlfriend’s folks in Christmas in Pécs, Hungary. Spent most of today in the town, wading through the snow and drinking hot coffee and brandy in a café.
Wandering around Pécs Other days Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 You are here: Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 Part 16 Part 17
I found myself in my wife’s old hometown of Pécs, a small university city and former Roman settlement about 200 km south of the Hungarian capital Budapest. She kindly organised a visit to the Pécsi Sörfőzde or the “Pécs Beer Factory”. This is the largest brewery in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It also has…
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For some time now, this little fellow has frequented our garden. We have a sort of hedgehog highway behind the shed. And because we have no cats or dogs, they hedgehogs are free to pretty much come and go as they please.
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I am slowly becoming accustomed to infrared photography, with the “full spectrum” Lumix µ4/3 camera that by Protech Photographic recently converted for me. I’m finding that near-infrared images can make even very boring ugly things look quite interesting. So I decided to pop out to what is generally reckoned to be the ugliest of Havant’s…