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Silver-haired bearded bartender with a big smile wearing a white shirt with sleeves rolled up underneath a grey vest, squeezing what might be a lemon into a cocktail glass.

A Christmas tipple

It’s Christmas. The season of goodwill. And giving. Lots of giving. Mostly giving stuff that people don’t want or won’t use or have no need

Elderly man in a white shirt and vest holds a glass of wine as he stands in a wine cellar with wine barrels in the background

Sparkling Somló

While I rarely get excited about anything, I have three underlying passions that bubble to the surface on occasion: stories, traditions, and wine. When octogenarian

Scary stuff

It’s the time of year when ghosts, ghouls, and goblins roam the fringes of reality scaring the living daylights out of kids and adults still

A group of people sit around a table, chatting. They're blurry. In the foreground is a white canvas shopping bag with the Hungarian words Ebben a táskaban esély ban.

An opportunity to change

The villages of Bag and Dány in Pest County lie about 26 km apart, both a little more than 40 km from the country’s capital.

The only certainty is uncertainty

Well, the past couple of months in Hungary have certainly been eventful. The demise of the Kata taxation system has sent many budding entrepreneurs to

Who’s Margaret?

‘We’ve never been to Margaret Island.’ It was a simple statement of fact, not a complaint. My many-time visitors had never, ever, been down to

Mammy chicken and baby chick sitting on a nest of straw

Kids and what they can teach us

I have issues. My issues have issues. But I have no issue. Don’t you just love the English language?

Smiling woman with dark shoulder length hair stands behind a grey wooden fence. To her left, sitting on the fence is an Asian girl about 5 in a read gingham uniform. To her left a blonde-haired boy wearing black shorts and a red t-shirt. Standing in front of the fence is a five year old girl from India with long black hair and a red gingham dress. All are smiling.

The English Garden

Sam Cartwright arrived in Budapest in 2002 with two small kids and a husband. Fed up with life on the hamster wheel in Liverpool, she

Rev. Dr Frank Hegedüs - Anglican priest in Budapest standing smiling with arms folded

Isten hozott

Many lifetimes ago in Edinburgh one Sunday, I made for the nearest cathedral to get Mass. I thought all cathedrals were Roman Catholic. I knew

Andi Gal drinking MadDog cider with Keith Mahoney looking on

How about them apples!

Way before I learned to appreciate a glass of wine, cider was my drink of choice. I’d get particularly excited when friends came back from

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