Presumably, it was intended to be funny. Well, it is just embarrassing. I do not want to bore you with the details of the Hungarian home politics, but it is worth noting that TV2 is one of the two leading commercial channels in Hungary, which was bought by the well […]
Earlier I posted two professional pictures of Lake Pécs (some say Lake Orfű). Ferenc Kálmándy’s photos were taken in autumn and captured the mystic aura of the lake. Last week I went to the lake with my extended family. We had lunch at Muskatli Restaurant (it is said to the […]
If you want to get the real taste of the Austrian capital, spend a couple of hours at this open air market. We did it.
Professional photographer Zsolt Czegledi took this photo on 27 February 2016. In the picture you can see a shadoof („Gémeskút” in Hungarian) in Hortobágy at sunset. Hortobágy is a huge, romantic flatland in East Hungary, one of the national symbols. This flatland with its fauna and flora is called „puszta”. […]
According to the Hungarian traditions the bear can predict when the winter ends. February 2 is the day of bear watching. People believe that this day the hibernating bear comes out of its cave to check the weather. If it is sunny, and the bear sees its own shadow, it […]
First in Buda Castle, then in Houdini House.
It could even be a new extreme sport. On 24 January, László Bajza swam 27 meters under the ice of Kavicsos Lake in Mezőkövesd, Eastern Hungary. The 41 years old man – who is a professional diver at the fire department – wore only swimming trunks in the water. Bajza […]
It is 72 years since the soviet troops liberated the ghetto of Budapest where 70 thousand Jews were living in horrible conditions. Many of them had died of starvation, freezing cold and illnesses, the dead were lying on the streets unburied. The ghetto in the old Jewish quarter was established […]
The „Gateway to Space” is open until 15 March.
On January, 2016, the map of the Hungarian toll roads changed a little. Two new speedway sections entered the pay system: the M43 motorway between Mako and the Romanian border and a new M85 section in west of the country. It means that presently the official Hungarian toll road map […]