Our blog’s lazy(ish) co-photographer has been convinced that his view of Istanbul is also required for the completeness of our incomplete impressions. And as you can see, he has a keen eye for details, half eyed felines, vintage newspapers, street art, Küçük Emrah and felines with both eyes in place who might or might not…
Bits of an Istanbul Summer
I loved both geography and history as I child (and I still do today, for that matter), so by the time I got around to travelling more seriously I had a well formed mental and emotional map of Europe, with places I felt I already knew and loved, places I wanted to discover and others…
June Random #2: The North-Western Turkey Edition
I have always been clumsy to infernally bad at reading maps, and orientation in general- it took me a year or so to get proficient at navigating the Blaha square underpass, and, occasionally, after 13 years of living in Budapest I can still waver for a few seconds when in the middle of it, not…
June Random #1
June should be about getting used to summer, but this year it arrived in Budapest insisting very much that it’s all about scorching, hot summer, giant icy lemonades and cocktails, people lounging in the shade and windows open to all the noises of the night. I always felt there is a change in the texture…
Harcsa Veronika & Gyémánt Bálint @Puskin u. 15
The fact that Budapest’s courtyards hide many secrets may not be a secret to many .(My excuse for this horrible pun is Monday, of course.) Usually you need to be on the lookout for them, eyes wide open, and maybe just maybe you stumble on one. But sometimes, quite rarely, to be frank, the secrets…
Look Who’s Coming to Sziget
Well, erm, it’s Robbie Williams. And Robbie out of all people even has one of the special pre-festival days dedicated to his artistic endeavours- kind of a far cry from the times when he was my favourite ’take that’ based on the simple fact that he looked most clueless. (Insert here perusal of old Take…
Flowers and kittens
I was thinking it’s high time for a post of great importance and weight, touching on subjects totally relevant to our times and offering much food for thought.So here it is. Flowers and KITTENS. …
May Random #2
Not necessarily chronologically the second part of May, because procrastinating also has the blessed side effect of creating confusion, and I might have mixed up the folders just a little. The essence is the same of course- it’s spring, I drink coffee here and there and occasionally take sweeping shots of a Danube skyline, because…
May Random #1
The plan was, as always, to post the shots nicely in order as they happened, but then this project, as many others, somehow went up in smoke. So there goes May, with various flowers, books, coffees (yes, I’m predictable like that), lots of architecture porn (time to discover the nooks and crannies of Budapest I…
The Island when it’s not the ISLAND- Spring Edition
So now the Island pretty much looks the part- though, of course, by mid August the sun will have burnt the greens into submission. We even found the Csónakház open, so we could soak up the sun with some beers in tow, which is of course a very Sziget feeling if there was any. The…
Pocket Diary Budapest 