Budapest is my kind of town. Everything you want is available relatively easily. Because I don’t want to sound like Wikipedia, I was thinking long and hard what to wrote about. So here are some sights you shouldn’t miss when visiting Hungary, my top 5 favourite places in the city. Let me tell you, it was … Continue reading
Travel writing is relatively easy when you go to a country you’ve never visited before; new impressions, unknown culture, stuff you’ve only heard about before. It’s much harder to write about your home country, where everything is familiar, almost like a part of you. I have spent more than 30 years of my life in Hungary and I … Continue reading
Certain activities closely associated with the season, like spring cleaning and spring detox symbolise rebirth and starting anew, and apart from being part of our cultural traditions, they are undoubtedly also useful and necessary. On the other hand this is the first warm day of the year, so I say forget washing the curtains and dusting the picture frames. In my book, … Continue reading
10 weeks is a long time. I know quite a few of you have been reading my exuberant ramblings week after week; this post is just a quick recap on the Mexico series in case you’ve missed one of the posts. The pictures listed below are links taking you to the individual posts. They are … Continue reading
I’m a tad bit worried about my overweight luggage. In my head I’m already preparing explanations to avoid the extra fee, like having 2 kilos of sand stuck to my clothing that I couldn’t do anything about. Or that I have lost weight, about 5 pounds over the three weeks period, and it should be okay because it … Continue reading
Postcards from the Country 