What makes Budapest such an incredible place to live? Let's find out!
Budapest is one of the most child-friendly cities I’ve ever visited. Hands down. It’s better than the cities we’re used to in the United States, and it’s much better than other big cities we’ve vis...
2017 July 6/ CommentsWe recently had a guest post published by Globetotting.com (what a great URL, right?). The folks over there were kind enough to publish a list of 10 wonderful things to do in Budapest. Check it out...
2017 May 31/ CommentsThe Budapest Ferris wheel: A fun treat A ride on Budapest’s Ferris wheel, the Budapest Eye, gives a great sense of the scale of this old city. Szent István Bazilika, just a few meters to the nort...
2017 May 25/ CommentsShortly after we arrived here in Hungary, I wrote a post about the cheap food we’d thus-far discovered in Budapest. It takes a lot of food to feed a family of five, so our efforts to eat cheaply ce...
2017 March 22/ CommentsWe moved to the big city, and everything is … small. Before we moved to Budapest, we weren’t exactly city people. Sure, we felt at home in Seattle and Vancouver when we’d trek there periodica...
2017 March 19/ CommentsUnderneath the sprawling Deák tér, in a disused section of the European mainland’s oldest subway line, is the small Millenium Underground Museum, which pays tribute to the history of the M1 Föld...
2017 March 9/ CommentsThere’s always something happening around Nyugati Pályaudvar, a railway station that sits at the confluence of several bus routes, the tram lines 4 and 6, the M3 underground as well as regional tr...
2017 February 28/ CommentsSomething that struck us immediately upon our arrival to Hungary, and which was reinforced by the contrast of recent trips to Spain and Italy, is how supportive this country seems to be toward youn...
2017 February 21/2 CommentsWhy we love the City Park One of our favorite reasons to visit City Park is the Budapest Zoo. The enormous public park is home to many of Budapest’s most famous attractions, including Hősök tere ...
2017 February 20/ CommentsBudapest’s public transportation is already reasonably priced: A standard ticket costs only 350 forint (or, a little more than a dollar), and for my monthly student pass, I pay just 3.450 forint ...
2017 February 19/ Comments
