It has been around two years since last dentist visit. In Finland it is rather easy and cheap for university students but now I am in Hungary and working. Based on my previous troublesome experiences with public health care I decided to try out private sector. I have a some kind of health fund from my work place and I have not used it too much previously so paying it myself was not an issue.

I checked some links from my health fund's website and I picked one. They have English speaking dentist and they returned to my contact inquiry swiftly. So, today I had my appointment and it went quite smooth. The place was clean and staff was friendly. Luckily I did not have any serious problems - at least they did not find any - and the only operation was cleaning after inspection.

How much? 12 000 HUF / around 50 EUR. But it goes from my health fund which is otherwise tricky to utilize so I do not mind. With right kind of paper from a doctor one could buy various things like sun glasses or monthly cards for sports facilities. I guess I have to do another visit to public doctor one day.

Last weekend we were in Prague. Instead of flying or using a train we went there by bus. It took seven and half hours but that was bearable as the quality of the bus was pretty good and tickets were relatively cheap. You can check their website - www.cseh-busz.hu to see other destinations and current prices.

Everything went really well in Prague. We had nice accommodation with a good location and weather was sunny most of the time. Even though it was only early March the city was full of tourists. I don't want to think how crammed streets of the old town are during summer time.

Now we are in Miskolc. Today is a national holiday and basically everything is closed also tomorrow as people take Friday off. The unpleasant side of this particular day is the rioting. Budapest is preparing to meet a lot of protesters from opposition and separate groups. As previously, some of these protests are expected to turn violent clashes with police.

Today a light bulb went off from the ceiling lamp. Instead of normal peaceful passing out this particular light bulb decided to explode violently. In addition of causing nasty mess in sense of shattered glass it also tripped a switch from the circuit table.

Strangely, after digging out the remains of past light bulb and replacing it with the new one lights did not work. And there was no electricity in the toilet. Even the oven was cold despite well working cooker just above it.

After some playing with the circuit table's switches without any success I decided to go downstairs to check if the building's electric main room with all those electric meters would provide any clues. Well, there was a red light on the meter of this flat. This flat has three mains coming from basement and each one has its own trip switch. The nasty light bulb managed to trip also one of the main switches off as its last deed.