ALASTAIR + LALEINIA

Hungary has become one of my (Alastair) very favorite places in the world to visit. Budapest is a beautiful city and I’m starting to want to know more about the country, its history, etc., especially as I’m part Hungarian. It is something that I haven’t really thought about all that much. As a kid, the only thing I remember knowing about the country was that my grandad was from there and that their national team goalkeeper wore sweatpants and looked like he was playing Sunday league.   Anyway, it was great to spend Thanksgiving there, especially because Hollie came out and joined us there! Budapest is one of our favorite cities, and I have been trying to learn a little more about my grandad and his time there before he left and came to England. I have always had a lot of admiration for him, without knowing loads about him and his life. He died when I was quite young, but I’ve always known about his work ethic and ability to fix and create things. As I prepared for consult

I'll spare you the history of the Athens marathon (which every Athens marathon blog seems to always include) except to say that it starts in the town of Marathon, goes to Athens, someone died, and it is the original. Ever since I got back to Barcelona after the Geneva marathon I've been looking forward to getting to Athens to do it all over again! Luckily, this time Lain and Emre came with me, which made for an enjoyable trip. We got to see a few sights in Athens over the five days that we were there, including the Acropolis, which was really impressive, and a bunch of other temples and ruins. Also, the food was pretty good! Lots of meat plates and decent pasta (especially the day or two before the race!). A few days before the race we went to the expo and as we were walking around (buying running gear), we saw a Kenyan guy who was being followed by a camera crew. He took a shine to Emre and ended up holding him and ended up passing me his phone to take a picture o