Rita’s Hungarian Delicacy: Amazing chimney cake, lángos and goulash at the Channel Islands

Have you ever heard of the Channel Islands? It’s an archipelago in the La Manche channel, and one of its bailiwicks is Guernsey. A few years ago a Hungarian gastronomy lover, Rita chose Guernsey as her new home, where she…
The interesting story of Aleksey Torubarov, who’s been waiting for his political asylum in Hungary for two years

According to index.hu, the owner of the Russian restaurant chain that was doing well a few years ago has been waiting for two and a half years to get a political asylum in Hungary. Despite the fact that he’s been…
“You have to tend to the patients no matter what” Dr Anna Jakkel, from the new host centre in Körmend

It’s barely been a week since the first shelter-seekers arrived in the host camp at the yard of the technical college of Körmend from the host centre in Bicske. The institution has been through the first scandal since then. However,…
Are Hungarians impossibly neurotic?

Napi.hu writes that, out of all the European Union member states, Hungary shows far the biggest controversy in the judgement, acceptance of the EU and the huge EU supports coming in. The Irish are at the opposite side of the…
Hectic state asset management can be expected in 2017
Napi.hu writes that 2017 is going to be a hectic year concerning state asset management: hospital sales are coming, but there’s going to be a need for buying new buildings for new governmental offices and ministries. Asset management is also…
Great success: Tímea Babos beat Venus Williams in Rome!

The talented Hungarian tennis player beat the iconic Venus Williams in the second round of the Rome Masters. Despite the fact that Timi lost the first set, she was able to come back and win the second and third set.…
An immigrant Syrian woman was shot in the back at the Hungarian-Slovakian border

Index.hu writes that the Slovakian customs officers were checking cars close to the Medve – Vámosszabadi border crossing point when, not too long after midnight, they decided to start following four cars going very closely and then, stopped them at…
New accessible pathway in the Jeli Arboretum famous for its rhododendrons

The second section of the new accessible path of the Jeli Arboretum was inaugurated last Thursday in Vas County, close to the village of Kám. Travelo.hu writes that the workers of forestry involved the representatives of the blinds in the process,…
6 must-see places in the Balaton Uplands area

Travelo.hu thinks that Lake Balaton is still in fashion nowadays, especially the Balaton Uplands area. It could be because it’s going through a touristic revolution, like the one Budapest has been going through, which brings by the uprise of standards and a…
9 things that shock a foreigner in Hungary

If you’ve had the chance to spend a few weeks somewhere abroad, you’ve probably experienced “culture shock” already on occasion. But what kind of culture shock hits a foreigner in Hungary? According to hataratkelo.blog.hu, the Californian Colm Fitzgerald moved to…





