Sziget Festival visitors can choose from an array of different places to stay during one of the biggest musical weeks in Europe this summer, and for a supplementary fee you can camp on the island itself. Óbudai Sziget (Island), which hosts the huge pop music jamboree, has an extensive camp site. This year a festival… Continue »

This is a lengthy, scholarly work – though in the main it is not difficult to read. It deals with a serious and disturbing issue that has come to the fore in the past half-dozen years – the increasing manifestation of anti-Gypsy hate speech and anti-Gypsy (often violent) actions. With no “homeland” of their own… Continue »

Surely it cannot be possible to run through 2,000 years of history of the Carpathian Basin and the 1,100 years since the Hungarians occupied the Basin in just 30 minutes. Yet former top manager, owner of the two restaurants Casablanca and Imperator, kung fu master and book author Fredrick Rothhaar says it is. From this… Continue »