Halloween in Hungary 2025: From Barely There to Big Deal
When Pumpkins Arrived in Budapest When Andrew and I first moved to Hungary eight years ago, Halloween barely registered on the cultural calendar. You might find a small display of plastic bats in a supermarket or a lonely pumpkin or two at the market, but that was...
Hungary Property Law Hits Balaton: New 2% Fee for Buyers
We’ve just come out of a long weekend of remembrance for the 1956 Revolution, and I ended it with something more joyful – celebrating my mother’s 80th birthday at DNB Budapest, surrounded by family and the kind of food that makes you grateful to live here. The...
Making Hungary Home: Free Residency Webinar
A Season for Home – and a Webinar Worth Joining It’s late October in Budapest: fog on the Danube, roasted chestnuts by the trams, and flags already waving for the long weekend marking the 1956 Revolution. My mum’s birthday falls on the 21st (Happy Birthday,...
Small Business in Hungary? Get 3% Loans
Autumn in Hungary is when entrepreneurs start reviewing the year -balancing invoices, planning winter budgets, and facing the familiar dance of tax filings and supplier calls. Andrew and I are right there too. Between his home technology architecture company, which...
I’m Anikó Woods, a Canadian-Hungarian who’s been knee-deep in life here since 2017 - bureaucracy, culture, and everything in between.