Restaurant day has come to traditionally mean salmon soup and sweets at the Finnish embassy- and each year a) they threaten us with bad weather and it turns out it’s hot and sunny so the Finns can complain about getting burned while sipping their soup b)the queue is longer (which means the Finns get burned in…
April Random #2
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…
Vienna in April
Vienna is the city I photographed most bar Budapest and my hometown. It is of course closest of all major European capitals- just three hours ride on the MÁV/ÖBB Shinkansen through greening fields and wind turbines. Which I insist on calling windmills, for if Don Quijote saw monsters where there were windmills, I see windmills…
Little Boots @ A38
I often wonder what on earth is in the rambling minds of event organizers when they book a particular pop act for, let’s say the Budapest spring or autumn festivals. Last autumn we had St Vincent and now Little Boots for spring. They both ended up on A38, the only difference from a classic…
April Random #1
There’s no more connecting these shots than the fact that they were taken in Budapest, in April (though I have a slight suspicion the first might be from March).April is that time of year when you can’t trust the temperature much, so some were taken with my fingers frozen to the camera, and some in…
My Own Private Sakura
Of course everybody’s got a camera these days, or at least a smart phone with one, so the Internet is aflood with yay-blossoms-blooming-trees-spring-is-here-yay shots.I have of course already admitted to being week minded enough to not resist a pretty flower, but these blooms are most special to me, because they come from my grandmother’s garden. …
Élodie Frégé @ A38
The advantage of taking a male photographer to the concert of a chanson singer in a tight black dress is that you don’t really have to move a finger to have hundreds of pictures. The disadvantage is that you have to go through all of them and check which one is best. We…
The Budapest Saint Patrick’s Day Parade 2015
Brendan Behan claimed that the Irish do not have a nationality, but a psychosis, which might be correct- and it might also be contagious. No other nation in the world, particularly not a relatively tiny one, with 6 million people stranded on a remote island, could generate such a commotion in a Central European capital…
First Day of Spring
On which it is settled that there is a quiet daffodil crisis unfolding in Budapest (there are much less than in other years, and logically, they’re more expensive), but the trees on Gellért hill are blooming slightly ahead of schedule. The Várkert Bazár is pretty in theory, but still flawed in practice. There are…
One Day in Istanbul
Spending one day in Istanbul and then trying to draw any conclusion from it is like studying a drop of water and then drawing conclusions on the ocean’s flora and fauna. So I won’t attempt anything and just let the pictures do the talking. …
Pocket Diary Budapest 