Ostrava is hosting a highlight of the summer with 300 performances and headliners Rudimental, Kasabian and Björk. As a warm up for Sziget, we decided to go this year for Colours of Ostrava too. Day 1 We had a lot of troubles getting all the 6 tickets we needed for 2 people to enjoy this […]
Author: Katechka
Experience: taking the night train EN 477 from Prague to Budapest
Are you planning a Euro Trip and wondering how to move efficiently around Europe? Why not to take a night train? There are many options to get from A to B while having your beauty sleep. So what do the European railways offer and how does it feel to be in a sleeping car of […]
Infographics: Status Quo of Migration to Hungary in 1H 2015
Illegal Migration to Hungary Hungary has been experiencing a huge influx of illegal migration in the past half a year with an average of 1,000 people a day coming in the last weeks. Majority of them are arriving to Hungary through the common border with Serbia. To stop them, Hungary will erect a fence and […]
Photo report: Trip to Bekescsaba!
Coming to Hungary and want to explore a bit more than just the capital? Planning to go on a voyage outside of Budapest? Why not to go to Bekescsaba! This is a photo report from my June adventure trip to Bekescsaba. City, which is located in the South East of Hungary, close to the Romanian […]
Hungary: From illiberal democracy to pornography. Viktor Orban speaks.
The prime ministers of Visegrad countries (Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic) were participating in a Q & A session at the Globsec 2015 conference. Hungarian PM, Viktor Orban managed to embrace reference to pornography, Christianity and family making in his answers. He also referred to Hungarians as discussion addicts (more about the all […]
Anti-Immigration Billboard Campaign – If you come to Hungary…
Hungary has been over the past month struggling with a huge influx of refugees that amount up on average to 400 people/day. Being the gateway to Schengen zone, while it is being encompassed by 4 non-Schengen countries (Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia). Guarding more than 1000 km has become lately more and more demanding. Hungarian Prime […]
Everything you need to know about Sziget
Since 1993, every August, Budapest holds the Sziget Festival, which attracts over 400 thousand people during the week of the event. What it feels like to be at Sziget? What makes it unique and unforgettable? This mini-series about the cult Sziget experience should reveal you answers and aims at giving you valuable insight to make […]
Everything You Wanted to Know About Hungarians – part 1/2
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Hungarians: But Were Afraid to Ask There are around 14 million Hungarians in the world, from which around 9-10 million live in Hungary. But how are they? What do they like and what impression do they make on outsiders? What are the specificities that make Hungarians truly exceptional? […]
Ups and downs of living abroad
It has been over a year since I made the decision to leave my home country and as I describe it on my Twitter, emigrate from the Czech Republic in search of a worse country, currently residing in Budapest, Hungary. But what did the past year bring to me and what did I lose? And […]
Why everybody should go to Canada at least once in a lifetime
Back in the 90’s there used to be a very silly joke circulating gaining popularity when we had a huge migration wave of Czech Roma to both UK and Canada: How do you say in the Romany language close? — Calais! And how do you say far? — Toronto! Thanks to this migration wave, the […]