Found on linguaphiles

In older Dutch literature one comes across these quaint names for the months, which I find rather charming:

January:- Louwmaand (the month in which tanning, looien, is carried out)
February:- Sprokkelmaand (meaning dry stick month I think)
March:- Lentmaand (springtime month, the days are lengthening)
April:- Grasmaand
May:- Blooimand (blossoming month)
June:- Zomermaand (summer has come at last!)
July:- Hooimaand (hay-month)
August:- Oostmaand (harvest-month)
September:- Herfstmaand (Autumn-month)
October:- Wijnmaand (Wine-month)
November:- Slaghtmaand (slaughter-month, i.e. when animals were slaughtered for the winter food-supply)
December:- Wintermaand

I like the idea of October being "wine month". Not so sure about "slaughter month", however. :c)

Vacation Report - Hungary

In the last installment, we had just left Zagreb. We made camp in what I think was the only camping site in the area (Autocamp Plitvice), which was little more than a grassy parking lot. We ended up parking right across from a family of Rom, who were fascinating to watch.

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Next stop, Budapest! :c)

For the new people, here are my previous installments:

http://torenheksje.livejournal.com/250308.html
http://torenheksje.livejournal.com/250685.html
http://torenheksje.livejournal.com/251353.html
http://torenheksje.livejournal.com/257096.html
http://torenheksje.livejournal.com/275869.html