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Hungary by the Danube 多瑙河畔的匈牙利

The middle of August was a perfect time for a trip to Hungary. It’s such a waste not to make good use of the long weekend and the Hungarian colleagues who were having their holidays back home. 八月中有一連三天的長週末,又正值兩個匈牙利同事回鄉度假,正是前往匈牙利遊玩的最好時候。 A Chinese colleague in my department joined me on this trip and took an additional day off before the long weekend. We left for Budapest late at night on 13th August and arrived in Budapest the next day. Our plans for our first day was to visit the Danube Bend region (Dunakanyar) which isn’t too far away from Budapest, in particular the two or three towns recommended by one of the Hungarian colleagues. We had wanted to head off earlier, but the late arrival of our overnight train and settling into our accommodation had kept us past midday before we were ready to go. 我和實驗室另一個中國同事,額外請了一天假,8月13日晚上乘過夜火車,翌日到達首都布達佩斯,打算在火車站附近的旅館安頓後馬上出發往鄰近的多瑙河灣(Dunakanyar)流域,遊覽同事推介的兩、三個城鎮。不過行程剛開始已有點延誤,由於過夜火車遲了個多小時才到達,我倆出發時已過了中午。 Our trip got off to a bumpy start from the city c...

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From far and wide 有朋自遠方來

When I’m not being occupied with my work or travels, there’ll instead be visitors knocking on my door! 最近除了忙工作和忙出門外,也忙於接待來訪的朋友。 The recent influx of visitors started with an Australian friend whom I haven’t met for several years. He arrived into Munich on the evening of 7th June with his girlfriend. The next day, I took them on around town, starting from Marienplatz and ending up in the Englischer Garten where we helped ourselves to a rather hefty meal. Little wonder we felt sluggish afterwards and wanted to do nothing more than lying on the grass to enjoy some sunshine. Just as we thought it was time to move on at 16:00, we saw the sky change its colour abruptly and decided to make haste to our next destination. But apparently everyone else in the garden had precisely the same idea and was all rushing towards the closest exit. The whole scene just resembled a massive evacuation from some sort of an emergency! 先有好幾年沒見的澳洲朋友及其女朋友在6月7日晚來到慕尼黑,翌日帶他們從市中心的瑪利亞廣場(Marienplatz)走到英國花園(Englischer G...