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FLEA MARKETS | Budapest | Petőfi Csarnok

24 April 2019 ♦

STORIES

If a flea market exists in a city, I’ll find it. On Saturdays in Budapest, the Petőfi Csarnok in City Park fills up with vendors selling everything from bric a brac to shampoo, with some antiques thrown into the mix. It’s a colorful mix of merchandise…and characters. (more…)

Style Moment | Art Gallery, Budapest

23 August 2013 ♦

STYLE MOMENTS

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Belorussian-French artist

COOL HOTELS | Budapest | Hotel Palazzo Zichy

19 August 2013 ♦

DON’T MISS

I have learned that a hotel can set the whole mood for the experience in a foreign city. Hotel Palazzo Zichy, in Budapest, is a perfect example of a “great experience” hotel. The 19th century building was the former home of Hungarian noble, Count Nándor Zichy. In the brief biography…

The World in a Little Blue Book

27 December 2012 ♦

STORIES

My passport is full. Each of the stamps on those little blue pages represents an encounter, an adventure, an education, an accomplishment, a story. I had to go to the passport office to have new pages inserted, and as I sat there waiting, I flipped through, and remembered. These are…

Eye on Design | Budapest | Műcsarnok Kunsthalle

7 January 2012 ♦

EYE ON DESIGN

From the outside, the building on Budapest’s Heroes’ Square looks like a big old traditional art museum. Don’t be fooled. (more…)

Style Moment | Budapest train station

9 July 2011 ♦

STYLE MOMENTS

“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d’être. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d’être, which lives on in itself.” André Kertész (1894-1985) Hungarian-born photographer

Budapest | Healing Waters

5 July 2011 ♦

DON’T MISS

People travel for miles across Europe to partake in Budapest’s thermal waters. The locals all recommended the Széchenyi Bath & Spa, in City Park, so that’s where I headed. (more…)

Budapest | The Pest Side

30 June 2011 ♦

STORIES

Pest (pronounced “pesht”) is the nerve center of Budapest. It is both contemporary and old world at the same time. There are many curiosities about this unique city…trams that go both ways on the same track, currency with an exchange rate of 183.84 to the dollar (figure THAT out when…

Budapest | The Buda Side

27 June 2011 ♦

STORIES

The golden age of Buda castle was in the Renaissance, during the reign of King Matthias. Today it is a tourist destination…a chance to wander the cobblestone lanes of Budapest history, and to look over the Danube River to the stunning view of Pest. (more…)

Buda + Pest = Budapest

22 June 2011 ♦

STORIES

Budapest is an enigma. It’s a city rich with architectural history, but still emerging from its communist past…so it feels like it’s a work in progress. (more…)