How on earth did we make it to May already- complaining about time flying by fast is a sure sign of getting old, I guess, but this April seems to have been particularly good at happening really intensely. We hardly had any daffodils and tulips around, and then out of the blue it was flowers…
Category: Hungary
Friday After the Rain
Budapest’s been lately seeing snow for hours or so- just as the English summer is half an afternoon of sunshine in June and the storm, Budapest winter is half a morning of snow in February and the rain. But at least the pavement is shiny in the evening light, if that’s any kind of consolation….
Le Snow!
Though, taking into consideration usual Budapest conditions, the snow will most likely either be gone by tomorrow morning, or turn into hideous brown slush, it’s here and it’s quite wonderful.
Raiding the Archives
Here comes me deciding to put my photo folders in some new yearly order- my resolution being not to have resolutions, but actually do stuff. The giant risk is of course getting lost in the whole process, checking out old albums, getting all nostalgic and suddenly switching to tumblr or something. But given that…
The Christmas Post
Crăciun Fericit! Boldog Karácsonyt! Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël Buon Natale! Hyvää joulua! Frohe Weihnachten! Feliz Navidad! God Jul! Срећан Божић! Bon Nadal!
Triggerfinger @ A38
For a country teetering on the brink of de-country-fying itself one of these days, Belgium is doing quite fine on the musical front. Not only did they produce the sublime dEUS, but they’ve also unleashed Triggerfinger on the unsuspecting continent, prompting us to immediately google their home town of Lier- it’s close to Antwerp, mind…
The island when it’s not THE island
It might be a bit surprising that in 10+ years of living in Budapest I’d never been to the island when it wasn’t THE island. I guess I never thought of it as anything else than a loud, hot, beautiful chaos of people and sounds. So it was quite startling to see it as, well,…
Time for Those Foggy Mornings
Every year people complain that winter comes suddenly: there’s Indian summer and then the freezing winds of the Arctic, and you can’t ever really wear your autumn jacket because you’re either too hot or too cold in it. I am coming to think that the famous transition period- probably should be October-never really existed. It’s…
Budapest Says No
We don’t always protest, but when we do, it’s because we must. There’s many silly things Hungary’s current government has done, but taxing the Internet is probably the silliest. Not necessarily because we couldn’t live with another 700 forints a month sent to the state’s already greedy pockets, but because access to information for everyone…
Pocket Diary Budapest 