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Sounds like travelling is getting a lot more flexible than I expected

I also do collect coins, but my idea is to have a coin and/or note of each country where either I have been.

If I stick to that rule my collection would be kinda sad Only Uruguay, Spain and France. If we add country air space I could add Brazil, Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara... but that's cheating

That is the disadvantage of living in such a huge country. I live just 20 km away from the Slovakian border. Hungary is bordered by 7 countries, landlocked, just 93.000 sq. km2s.

Somewhat the same regarding coin collection vs. the unity of the European Union. I do not make a difference between Euro coins originating from different countries. I do not collect Euro coins. I pay with them if I go/ride/drive/fly/travel abroad.
(However, I remember a cashier guy in Slovakia who stared at the Euro banknote he was given by me (originating from Cyprus/Portugal I guess... I guess it was somewhat suspicious to him, being unfamiliar...)

Btw, the country list of my coin collection is listed above, it hasn't changed recently. Argentinian peso, Omani rial change coins and Saudi Arabian riyal are partly mine: promised to me, though, never seen.

My recent idea: it could have been an interesting ISA/IRC track (less strict OWOOT rules, Indy).

@Alan Rotoi

As I mentioned, 1 coin from a country is well enough for me. At least it is much more valuable for me to get a coin from a new country than to get the coin set of a country from which I already have a coin (I consider Usrin's peso to be already mine). My goal is to increase the number of countries where I have at least one coin from.

The Most Wanted Coins for me are the ones which existed in the EU before they changed to Euro. Of course I have some of them, but I really miss for example the Finnish markka, the Portuguese escudo and the Slovenian tolar (other missing ones from this group: Latvian lat, Lithuanian litas, Estonian kroon, Maltese lira, Cypriot pound, Luxembourg franc, Irish pound). I don't have coins from Canada, but from there, my real dream would be this 5 dollar banknote: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/new-banknote-1.5795421 A 500 JPY coin would be also interesting since it is rare to see such a high value coin (I know, 5 CHF has a higher value).

@Usrin

Yes, I know. But two of my usual destination countries still insist on their rules. With two Sputnik V vaccines, I still can't enter Austria and Italy. I don't visit Germany too often, but I still can't go there either.

(Recently lifted all measures: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia; 2 Sputnik V is eligible: Serbia - these make me a bit happier.)

I think tracks like this favour Alan Rotoi. IMO he is the favourite on all of the tracks, but this time he is even more the favourite than usual.

Even if CTG skips this track, we can have a good race.

1 Alan Rotoi
2 Duplode
3 Akoss Poo
4 Dreadnaut
5 Kylie
6 Usrin
7 Overdrijf
8 Zapper
9 Frieshansen
10 Cas

It was not meant to be a funny type of track (I'm not intending to win the best track of the year contest this year), and the possibilities were quite limited this time.

I like the original cars + the Melange (maybe +the Skoda Felicia Kompressor, but we haven't been driving this track for long years). I want to race on my track, so I must try to build a track which will be driven with an original track. Two possibilities: a GTO power gear track or a P962 track (+percentage modification of course). I chose the latter one, but I had to be cautious: I had to avoid early powergear (which Afullo mentioned as quite technical, excluding the Countach possibility as well) and I then had to build a longer fast section (which Rotoi mentioned as Akossish) to avoid the opportunity for slower cars.

But I guess after this track, slower and non-original cars will have great chance of being the car of the month (though GTO power gear can also be close).

[Argentina]

there are no travel restrictions in many target areas: Slovakia, Slovenia, Transylvania, Argentina.

Nice! You'll be welcome!

BTW if you give me an address I could send you a set of coins from here

Well, thanks.

IMO the value of my coins set depends on the number of countries they originate from. Since I have an Argentinian peso promised to me by Usrin, I don't think it would be necessary to pay a pile of money for the postal fee of sending some coins from Argentina to Hungary. My wife (Kahdra here) works for the Hungarian Post Service, and we know about cases when money doesn't manage to arrive at the addressee's...

Now as corona laws getting less strict, it is available for me to access most of the bordering countries. Austria would need a third vaccine. Ukraine is a no-go-zone during the war. Serbia: 2 Sputnik vaccines are enough. Croatia has lifted all border-related COVID measures recently.

To enter Argentina, I would need to travel by plane. I would also need flight transfer. I would have to meet the COVID rules of each country I enter. However, I have a dream, which is sometimes nearer, sometimes farther from me: to obtain my PhD degree. I decided - and promised to my wife - to travel to an exotic destination if i succeed. If everything goes well, I think about a.) South America (Tierra del Fuego, Pampas, Andes are preferred, Argentina and/or Chile, but any other place would make me happy) b.) New Zealand (/Australia). To see the Southern sky, the Southern Cross (Crux). To see the other half of the Earth. To meet different cultures. To see areas way too distant but similar (moderate climate, Spanish language spoken).

Present state of my coin collection:

I'm keeping three coins (Argentinian 1 peso, Omani 50 baisa and 25 baisa) for your collection.

Still keeping them, now together with 1 Saudi riyal and 2x25 halalas (old and new version).

Oh, thanks. Now would be time to meet once when there is no fear of COVID. It is a better coin collection when the coins are at hand instead of lying in a Norwegian wallet/drawer etc.

Interesting facts:
- I closed the "Live beside Stunts" section by mistake, I could not see the new posts in this section in the past weeks.
- I also wasn't aware of JTK and KHR having grown up in Namibia.
- I almost met Usrin in October last year, I missed the Omani and Argentinian coins just because of fear of COVID (emergence of suspicious symptoms).

I travelled less in the past 2-3 years.

Reasons:
- COVID (fear of the disease, non-suitable Sputnik vaccine, lack of an EU certificate of recovering from COVID because there was no PCR test conducted, only a rapid test)
- mechanical state of our previous car
- my old boss died, no more trips to USA (the visited company has also gone bankrupt since then, reason: COVID) and to Transylvania since then (now we rather write articles instead of attending conferences)
- my currect boss did not let me go on a holiday last year (I could take most of my holidays only in December)

Most of these problems are solved. I still don't take the booster vaccine, but there are no travel restrictions in many target areas: Slovakia, Slovenia, Transylvania. We bought a newer car last autumn. My boss admitted that it was a mistake that he did not let me go on holiday.

But in the meantime:
- I got older
- a war has broken out in a neighbouring country
- we want to buy a house, even the first steps take a lot of time.

Happy? Excited? Not happy? Rigged? Going to storm the Országház? Fleeing to Ukraine?

The German sight of the Hungarian election outcome:

My sight of the Hungarian election outcome:

Most of the people I know thinks the same (including myself)... I truly can't believe the result (especially the overwhelming difference)...

I also still have the T-Shirt. Despite it's quite worn out, sometimes I still wear it. Up-to-date pics attached.

Yes, please! 

Should be gone. If you still see it, you might need a hard refresh (Ctrl-F5) or to clear the browser cache.

Works. Thanks.

Well, I think we should change the small Z icon of the main website... it's quite ambiguous.

In the end, 1 gold and 2 bronze medals for Hungary, 20th place on the medal table.

Summer Games, Tokyo, 2021. 6 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze medals for Hungary, 15th place on the medal table.

Considering that in Beijing there were 109 events, in Tokyo, there were 339, there is surprisingly little difference between the summer and winter performances of my country. Our highest mountain is only 1014 m high and we don't have too much ice rinks...

where distances do not really matter anymore. Chances may be slightly better for the South American pipsqueaks.

Well, I would ask Norwegians whether they chose Stavanger or Debrecen airport to stay at in this case. Or to drive M3 highway in Hungary or some Southern Norwegian highways.

Let Ukraine alone both of them, NATO and Russia.

With this perception, World Map would be totally different than you could see now.

Oh, yeah, let ethnic Hungarians, independently from Czech/Romanian/French/British/Russian interests, come back to be annexed to Hungary or at least let them found the autonomous state of Erdély/Vajdaság/Felvidék...

Unfortunately, World Map isn't drawn by ethnic and religious borders. That is the driving force of New World Order.

Everyone safe? Nobody bombed by Putin yet?

Should we be making plans for surviving WW3?

Maybe I am the one here who lives the closest to Ukraine (border ~150 km away), but I am safe, fortunately.

Bolt

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