Not your average expat
Is this Hungary’s last master glass-blower?
Has James Carcass unwittingly become Hungary’s last master glass-blower? The country which once had glass factories in Salgótarján, Ajka, Tokod and Parád now produces only such standard items as beer or wine bottles, with just three small privately-run workshops producing blown glass.
Zsazsa Gabor’s ashes laid to rest in Budapest
The ashes of Zsazsa Gabor were laid to rest on Tuesday in the Fiumei Street graveyard in Budapest, almost five years after her death.
Not your average expat
The house with no address
Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in Australia, the U.K., the Cayman Islands, the San Yuan Islands, U.S.A., Malta and… Vásárosmiske, Hungary. This is just a shortlist of places where intrepid traveller Kristin Cook has lived, taking in several continents and many countries – and culminating ...
Not your average expat
Laying ghosts
There can be few less likely places to meet an expatriate from the UK than in a cemetery in the north-eastern city of Nyíregyháza, some 70 kilometres from Hungary’s border with Ukraine. It is in this extensive burial ground that Nigel works as a ...
Not your average expat
‘We’re going to stay here’
The village of Kisszékely is unlikely to be on many people’s “must-see” list of destinations to visit in Hungary. With its population of just 200, it nestles east of Lake Balaton, bordered by forests and completely hidden among the rolling hills. It is what ...
Not your average expat
‘All I wanted to do is make a difference’
A foray beyond the environs of Budapest to one of the lesser-visited cities in Hungary offers a glimpse of small-town life that has elsewhere been obscured by urbanisation and a faster pace of living. On leaving the M5 motorway, the bumpy country roads conjure ...
Budapest Central European Fashion Week attracts nearly 12,000 visitors
Events of the annual Budapest Central European Fashion Week, held online for the second time this year, attracted nearly 12,000 visitors between March 25 and 28, the Hungarian fashion and design agency MDDU said on Monday.
Interview with János Zolcer, author of “Gorbachev's Secrets”
Former Soviet president reveals private life to trusted friend
Television and film producer János Zolcer first met former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev in Vienna in 2000 and they have been good friends since. One result is Zolcer’s book “Gorbachev's Secrets. Unveiling the 80s, First-hand Stories He Told Me”, now translated from the ...
Polish flag to be hung from Parliament on Tuesday
Ader, Duda in video call on Hungarian-Polish friendship day
President Janos Ader and Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda held a video call on Monday evening on the occasion of Hungarian-Polish Friendship Day.
12 Hungarian Idioms to make you happy as a monkey about his tail
Some humour is needed to get through the gloomy days of the stay-at-home-rather-than-in-hospital coronavirus pandemic. Daniel Csaki offers 12 quite commonly used Hungarian idioms for English-language expatriates to understand and perhaps learn. Use them in day-to-day life, or the next time you end up ...
