OH, THE JOY OF IT ALL!!!!

IT took years, in fact a decade and a half, but courtesy of Debreceni VSC Peter and Frances are getting ready to enjoy some Champions' League football matches - without having to travel more than 10 minutes on the Budapest metro.

Yes, folks. The big time is coming to us - Liverpool, Lyon and Fiorentina. All it took was three hours of queuing with other footy fans a week ago.

Its round ball heaven for footy tragics like the Scotts.

BUDAFOK WINE FESTIVAL

ITS grape harvest time in Central Europe, time to taste the new wine, the sweet muscatel, which is exactly what we did at the Budafok Wine Festival on the southern edge of Budapest last Saturday.

But, even better than the wine was the rich, smoky taste of the calf roasted on a spit.

TALL TALE AND TRUE

LIKE they always say, opposites attract each other. Here's living proof of it - Fran, in the middle, with our two new Serbian basketball players, Danijela Utvic (left 197cm) and Jelena Budimir (193cm).

We wish both Dani and Jeca a very successful season in 2009/10.