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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Like the new thing in Brasov where some street signs show you their former names. Here's the former Molotov

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Is pewage really a word? I'd like to start using it

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you want to know who I'll be supporting in the World Cup final, I hope this picture gives you an idea

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I got here today. Still a buzz. Then at 7pm I walked past one of Orbán's Scruton cafes. Not a soul in it (and at 7pm the day before a 3 day weekend, you can imagine it's a lively evening)

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

So, FIFA investigates discrimnation and racism by the IFA (Israeli football association), and its damning report concludes "the breaches committee by the IFA are of such gravity and seriousness as to merit severe and exemplary sanctions" But instead....

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Here's one of their posters

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Must confess there were a number of moments on the way up that I thought "why do I do this to myself?" This is why

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I learned today that when your home town football team reaches the first division in Romania you can no longer by alcohol in the supermarket (on match days)

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Ok it was here, though now it is only 3 - but it's the only place I know that has it written in Romani (I thought it was 4, but maybe I misremembered)

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I took a photo of it but I can't find it. I'm going to say it is "somewhere" on this map

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I'm squalid and incalculable damage.

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We get this out every May 1st*. My late father in law liberated it in late 89 and then added the actual hammer and sickle at a later date (as a joke. We're not actually hankering for the second coming of uncle Nicolae)

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Farsang in deepest Transylvania

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Valentine's Day books. Very romantic. Bill Clinton and Boris Johnson, people noted for their fidelity. As well as a book about collaboration with the Nazis.

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Looking at the ground while pregnant and Palestinian is a crime worthy of a death sentence from Israel

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Craiova advertising its Christmas Market with a festive Darth Vader. I wonder if it's a nod to Romania's apparent Christmas wish to elect an actual nazi as president

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So, that happened while I was asleep

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Very occasionally one of my management students will use the term "managee" in their essay. I *guess* it makes sense, but once I've come across it, it's very hard not to think of the teachers at their school looking a bit like this...

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

My first time in Brasov airport. Friendliest airport staff I've ever encountered (though this may be because it's basically got no actual traffic)

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

When you walk into this tiny museum in a small scruffy town and discover the biggest intact mastodon fossil ever discovered and these incredible hand painted dioramas of battles from Transylvanian history

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

We took delivery of, chopped and stacked an öl of wood today. I can't tell you what an öl is, because neither Deepl nor Google recognise the word (I think it's archaic like a bushel or something). I'd take a stab at approx 4 cubic metres. Anyway, I'm knackered

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

It's about time students started being useful (seriously, my daughter and I are sitting here trying to work out what the original must have been. Probably Hungarian in the original rather than Romanian, but I dunno "diák hús"?)

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Andy Hockley @adhoc.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

"This is a textbook case of genocide" - the UN high commissioner for Human Rights "The governments of the USA, the UK and much of Europe are wholly complicit in this horrific assault"