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A Day with the Dead: Taking your Kids to the Cemetery
Cemeteries are great places to hang out. And, I would argue, great places to take kids. I’ll spare you the jokes about people dying to get in, or being able [...]
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A Day at Kerepesi Cemetery
A couple of weeks ago we ran an article about taking kids to cemeteries. Well, my mother is here visiting from the US, and we spent the day at Kerepesi [...]
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Buda Castle, Where the Bull’s Blood Flows
The Buda Castle Wine Festival is right around the corner, this year taking place September 12th – 16th, so it’s time to start making your plans. Pair the words “Hungary” [...]
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Tihany, Hungary: Lake Balaton’s Most Alluring Village
If you’re staying in Hungary long enough to venture outside of Budapest, Lake Balaton may well be your next stop. You should be aware that Balaton is a schizophrenic body [...]
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The Hungarian Natural History Museum
Was pretty lame when we first visited it. The museum had moved into its current location, the repurposed and renovated Ludovika Military Academy, in 1996, and it seemed ill-at-ease in [...]
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Dog Shit on the Danube: A Poopy Plea to the Citizens of Budapest – and the World
Twenty-three piles of dog shit. Twenty-three separate, individual piles of poo, in various states of rain-softened slurry, in a one-and-a-half block section of one Budapest street (Wesselenyi utca). A...
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Word a Week Challenge: ‘Garden’– The Need for Green
I pined, I yearned, I whined. A small garden plot, that’s all I wanted. Not much to ask, just a sunny spot, maybe 3×5 meters. I ached, chafed, coveted, craved. [...]
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Pacifism 101
There is a citadel atop Gellert Hill in Budapest called aptly – if unimaginatively – enough, The Citadel. It’s a squat, unlovely building, hunkered upon the highest point along the […]
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Someone Around Here’s a Guerrilla
A little while back I posted an article about guerilla gardening. Well this weekend we were out and about in the city, and I noticed that somebody had been doing […]
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World-Class Wines in a Little-Known Corner of Europe? Yup.
When people think of Hungary they probably don’t think about wine. Any familiarity with Hungarian wine generally comes from the bottoms of supermarket shelves, where acrid and awful ‘Bull’s Blood’ […]
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