We put up a poster near the bar and asked everyone the same thing. Where are you in your Hungary story? By the end of the night it was covered in answers, and a good half of the crowd could not squeeze themselves into a single box. That is the HOW TO HUNGARY September...
I have lived in Hungary since 2017, and until last Friday I had never once set foot in Memento Park. My sister has been several times. Her husband is a serious history buff. I had simply never gone. Then an invitation arrived for Up Reds, Whites!, the Memento Park...
The HOW TO HUNGARY September Social takes place on Wednesday 16 September, 18:00 to 21:30, at KLUSTER Budapest, right by Astoria in the fifth district of Budapest. Early bird tickets are 15% off with the code EARLYBIRDSOCIAL, valid until 16 August. I've already sold...
As I write this, Hungary is wrapped in fog. Thick, lingering fog that refuses to lift. It has been an unusually heavy winter here. The kind that makes you understand why some cultures don’t simply wait for spring to arrive. At the same time, the eastern seaboard of...
Dog Adoption Budapest: A Heartwarming Mikulás Day at Szimpla Kert Are you new here, or just stumbling across my blog for the first time? Welcome! If you love dogs or have ever thought about dog adoption in Budapest, you’re in the right place. I don’t just write about...
Last night’s HOW TO HUNGARY session at KLUSTER proved that nothing packs a room faster than immigration anxiety. Budapest has moved firmly into winter, and yet people arrived early, notebooks in hand, ready to understand Hungary Immigration: The Price of Staying in...
It’s a cold autumn morning in Budapest, and I’ve just finished my second coffee while trying to work out where Andrew and I might escape to for a quick winter break. Living here means every conversation eventually turns into a debate about airports, trains, and which...
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, Mummy, if...
September always feels like a fresh start. In my family, it’s when we swap lazy Balaton days for the sharper pace of city life. This year brings something new: HOW TO HUNGARY @ KLUSTER. From mid-September, KLUSTER - a collaborative team house in the heart of Budapest...
It’s August, and while Andrew is still tinkering with projects at our Balaton house and I’m trying to keep the garden from crisping under the late-summer heat, the calendar has me looking ahead. Not to heating bills (yet), but to an entirely different challenge: the...
I’m Anikó Woods, a Canadian-Hungarian who’s been knee-deep in life here since 2017 - bureaucracy, culture, and everything in between.
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