Six water tour ideas – Discover Hungary from the water
If you've ever sat in a canoe, kayak, or stood on a SUP board, you've probably noticed how different the world is from the...
Sára Pataki
Learning a new language at the age of 92 – Kató Lomb, one of the world's first simultaneous interpreters
She struggled with German as a child, but a few decades later, a Russian-English dictionary she found in a resale shop sealed her fate...
Krisztián Pomichal
”Like the slave market in the colonies” – Gyula Patasy’s vivid memories of the deportation
If you are lucky enough to live for seven or eight decades, you are bound to suffer the inevitable consequences of history. Among the...
Sára Pataki
Tibor Baranski – The “Hungarian Schindler”, who saved thousands of Jews from death
During the Second World War and the Holocaust, in Budapest, a 22-year-old Catholic priest student saved thousands of Jewish women, children, and men from...
Sára Pataki
"It’s a bit of a miracle that these communities have kept the language, the culture" – the advent trip of young people of Hungarian origin from South America
Camila's parents are Hungarian, but she grew up in Argentina. David's mother is Hungarian and his father is Colombian, and while they live not...
Anikó Wéber
”At the moment of Jesus' birth, the Lake Balaton came to be” – the magic of Christmases past
There were many Christmas customs and traditions in 19th-century Hungary, which are still kept by many families today. What are they? How did young...
Kati Szám
How Katalin Novák is preparing for Christmas and New Year – "I always strive to be truly present where I am"
Advent, Christmas, and the end of the year bring extra joy and extra things to do. We asked Katalin Novák , President of the...
Adrián Szász dr.
”Someone from above writes into my script” – Oscar-winner Ferenc Rófusz sent a message with The Fly: we'll get hit on if we buzz too much
Ferenc Rófusz, the animation filmmaker and creator of the first Oscar-winning Hungarian animation film (The Fly, 1981), recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award at...
Ildikó Antal-Ferencz
Father wound – Male society suffers from a lack of fathers
“It's very good that we are talking about men at all because nowadays we are approaching all issues mainly from the perspective of women's...