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Dated and eventually married a Hungarian woman. So we make fairly regular visits to this small landlocked but absolutely fascinating central European country.

“This Is HansinUngarn, from Pécs Hungary…”
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“This Is HansinUngarn, from Pécs Hungary…”

ByGarf

“…playing his favourite music, I hope you like it.”

These are the first words you will hear when you connect to the internet radio stream of Radio Pécs International. And I recently had the pleasure of meeting the man behind the show, Hans Randau. His station is located in a small basement room in his lovely home, which overlooks Pécs, a Mediterranean style town about 200km south of the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

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Hungarian rebels against the “Microsoft Tax”

ByGarf

[Reproduced from DEOSS ] Seems that Micro$haft’s corporate enslavement permeates far beyond the English-speaking world. A long and complex legal battle is currently raging in the former Eastern Bloc state of Hungary. APEH (the Hungarian Tax Office) has decided that all Hungarian businesses now have to submit their tax returns on-line. This would not be…

Traubisoda
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Traubisoda

ByGarf

Traubi or traubisoda is a brand of soft drink flavoured with grape juice. It is produced in Hungary, Austria and Croatia. Before 1995, in Hungary, it was made by a factory called Traubi Hungaria located in the village of Balatonvilágos. The company produces the drink from a special type of Hungarian grapes, called saszla. The…