Our first year in Hungary, and already we got an invite from the neighbours directly across the street to go away Easter weekend to an adventure park with five families on our street! How lucky are we? They had been in their new house for about a year when we moved in six months ago….
It is something once passed down from mother to daughter starting at Sunday meals. It is the lost art of teaching the kids how to cook. I shared a recipe with a fellow teacher just before the COVID-19 struck and discovered that many of my colleagues here in Hungary who are my age or a…
Lucky indeed! After months of anguish, stress and waiting for the government to bring out the new restrictions about August weddings during quarantine, the country of Hungry lifted the restrictions enough for our friends to get married but we still do not know how long the window will be left open with the second wave…
It is not all glam when it comes to making a TV show. The life of a star is complicated and tiring. Just having a wee taste over the years with makeup and hair, memorizing lines, costume and set changes, I can honestly confirm it is a real job! Not everything that glitters is gold….
Funny thing happened. It’s my birthday today, and my husband and daughter decided to take me out for Christmas shopping Sunday on Vaci Street in downtown Budapest on the walking strip next to the Danube River. We figured we would buy a sandwich and eat on a park bench somewhere during the pandemic. I love…
Alfonz’s project is now complete. These two modern, sleek lined, apartments are full of the high end tiles, flooring and lay-out that our customers come to expect from us! No detail has been overlooked when creating these work/live spaces. It started with one giant apartment and broken into two, Apartment 4/1 – 28.9M Huf and…
We went to see the Banksy exhibition on August 20th, the national holiday here in Hungary. On this day in 1038 King Stephen declared Hungary a Christian state. After his death, he was then canonized, or in layman terms, they made him into a saint… if you believe in that kind of thing… Of course…
I was talking to one of my students about the power of happiness, and our ability to create a happy life just by believing it is so. Recently we watched a TED talk on the science of happiness given by Dan Gilbert about how getting exactly what we want does not mean we will be…
The spontaneous creatures that we be, we set up the bike rack on my Subaru outback, and packed up for a cycling tour around and near Szentendre. Of course we know the town well; we bring students and family here whenever they visit. Alfonz and I decide, just the two of us today, and we…
Most Hungarians are playing it safe and staying close to home. It probably is the reason why Hungary is doing so well handling the COVID-19 in European scopes, with low numbers and limited fatalities. Families have decided to travel around Hungary rediscovering the local getaways and favourite sites that they knew so well when they…