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
World record-breaking Hungarian talents – two high school students from Budapest win the Oxford Schools Debating Competition twice in a row
Two Hungarian high school girls have broken records, winning the Oxford Schools’ International Debating Competition in two different categories last year and again this...
Henrietta Vadas
"Painting eggs was love at first sight" –Ildikó Fekete decorates eggs under the spell of angles and symmetries
Ildikó Fekete was captivated by the art of wax-dyed eggs from a very young age: she has been making them since she was 16...
Zsuzsanna Bagdán
Budapest's best-known fortune teller, who consulted in cafes – the story of Boriska Silbiger
In the early 2000s, the director of a cultural institution said to a prominent radio journalist, " Only Silbiger Boriska can give you some...
Mariann Háver-Varga
"Our legs are the most honest part of our body" – Body language is worth reading and mastering
In Hungary, relatively few people deal with body language, and psychologists and trainers use it as a supplementary topic at most. However, Nóra Bíró...
Anna Petz
Let the family discover the city together! – ‘Budapest with Kids’ map published
Cool, shaded parks, tucked-away bookshops, family-friendly confectionery shops and cultural hubs exciting for children as well. The ‘Budapest with Kids’ map published in early...
Fanni Fekete
„I share the hopes and concerns regarding migration” – Exclusive interview with composer José Cura
José Cura composer-conductor-tenor's first own opera will be performed at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. The „Montezuma and the Red Priest...
Nóra Streit
120 volunteers working for children – InDaHouse in Hernádszentandrás
Hernádszentandrás is a village with a population of barely 400 located in the Hernád Valley, where schoolchildren starting the year are greeted not only...
Lívia Kölnei
“What else is worth investing in but the children of the future?” – In conversation with Katalin Novák
At the turning point of the Old and New Year, we talked with an energetic politician who thinks in broad social perspectives while at...
Szilvia Németh
Dr. Dóra Vesztergom: “The ovaries cannot be botoxed”
Warning! The following interview contains phrases that are likely to disturb the peace, with intent. We aim to sound the alarm bell and make...
Ildikó Antal-Ferencz
“A normal birth does not require medical intervention” – in conversation with obstetrician-gynaecologist Balázs Bálint
Balázs Bálint is one of the most popular Hungarian obstetricians. Expectant mothers queue up for him. He continues – as a legacy of his...