longharddayatwork,.butitwasallworthwhile.IlearnedanewandveryusefulwordinGerman:

Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit

it mans a food allergy.. means  

 

ya’ just gottalove a language that can build a word like that !

 

nite all.nite sam

-me

 

almost 2 am.. my ears are ringing and my smile muscles hurt.. Just came back from a Gogol bordello show at the Tonehalle.. you gotta understand..this.. Gogol bordello is one of my favorite bands.. and they’re leader.. Eugene.. sis one of my favorite people.. even though he’s completely crazy ..  I first got hooked on this band in 2003 .. I was walking down the street  at 1AM in Austin Yexas when I ran into a friend of mine from high school.. pretty strange because neither he nor I lived in texas. He told we  I had to check out this band.. gogol bordello. at the club Emo .. ..   and the rest .. as they say .. is history. 

 

after a particularly demanding day at work.. I met my friends Jesus and Luka .. and we went to the show.. This is what happened 

 

first through; a going away part for nina,, she’s adopting  a tiny gitl 

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and tehnhangingout with Eugne !

 

ok.. missigthe fun even as they post theres,. hoe you;re night was fun ti@

 

ok,. must sleep..

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

 

spent last night and all of today in Budapest.. one of my favorite cites in Europe.. first time I was here in the late 70’s.. I remember (vaguely 🙂   getting woken up by a policeman with machine  gun for camping on a park bench on the Citadela.. It was a very different city then.. it’s still got remnants of that faded last century. but the city is really beautiful …elegant and so friendly..

 

 

 

 

arrived last night to find all the streets downtown blocked.. this morning woke to find police everywhere.. there was a meeting of 14 prime ministers.. including the PM of China, gathered here.. they were taking no risks..   the streets were so blocked that it took us 30 minutes to cross the street to catch a cab. 

 

 

Peter was my host.. 

 

 

and Elvira was my ‘handler ( ewhere ever I go in the world i have a wonderful communications person like elvira with me to say “what John REALLY Means is…. 🙂 

 

we hafd a crazy busy day.. first a meeting with the minister of transport.. then a meeting  with media.. then a presentation at a major trade show.. then a client meeting,.. then round table with professors and Budapest university.. then a talk for students. It was great being back at the university.. I was here n 2012 and 2013 .. this is the3 home of Gabor Denes.. the inventor of the laser.. in fact there are more Nobel prize winners per capita in Hungary than any other country !

 

I loved all of it.. 

 

 

the student talk was my favorite..  thye were a wonderful group !!!!

 

then a quick visit to the funky airport lounge. 

 

and now back in my hotel in Munich.. 

busy.. and fun.. 

very busy fdays ahead.. more from the future tomorrow.

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

Just got to Munich this morning.. now headed to Budapest. I️ love that city . Can’t find they need first visit in 1979 when I️ was chased from my camp site on the Citadela in Pestb by guys with machine guns

I’ve been there several times science but never as fun as with machine guns

Hope you get to visit this town

Nite all, nite Sam
-me