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 ...

Travels after the pandemic #4: east Slovakia

’Nowhere’ was undeniably ’somewhere’ for Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol once quipped that he "came from nowhere". While it is simple enough to look up a biography and discover that he actually left the womb in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 1928, his parents had lived in the east Slovakian village of ...

Parliament to vote on new accommodation rating system

All tourist accommodation in Hungary will be classified from one to five stars on the basis of uniform criteria, the CEO of the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTU) said on Saturday, outlining a bill being submitted to parliament.

The capital with the eye of an expat

BBQ at the Kis-Balaton

With the advent of the summer sun, the annual exodus from Budapest is in the offing. Visitors to the city during July and August are often surprised at how empty it is of Hungarians. While Parisians head to the coast and Milanese head for ...

Austria lists Hungary as low-incidence country

Austria has listed Hungary among the countries with a low incidence of coronavirus infections, the operative body responsible for handling the epidemic in Hungary said on Wednesday.