March 15


March 15 is a major holiday here in Hungary. It commemerates the victory of the Hungarians over the Austrian Hapsburg's. It was a short lived victory - one year, because the Russians teamed up with the Austrians to overturn the Hungarian victory in 1849. This holiday is unusual in that most of the revolutions that are celebrated here ended in almost immediate defeat. On this holiday you wear the national colors like the pin above. There will be a lot of flag waving and political meetings in the town centers. Everyone also gets to enjoy a nice long weekend.

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Hi MJ, I finally took time to read all these posts! You should go into your blog settings and give people the chance to email your blogs to others. Eg. I would love to email the one with J and me to J for her to see. Great stuff! I'm going to send your blogspot to TF for him to get a better glimpse of what is happening! Excited to see what HE will do in ALL of this!

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