Benefits of a Hungarian Passport: Mobility Without Drama
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...
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,...
Hungarian Citizenship Process: How to Make it Official
The rain is coming to finally break Budapest’s summer heat, and the city feels alive again. September always has that “back to school” energy, even for grown-ups like me. It’s also the month when my inbox fills with the same question: “How do I actually get Hungarian...
Hungarian Cultural Differences: A Canadian’s View
I’m a dual citizen. My parents are Hungarian, and I grew up with the food, the family stories, and just enough language to think I might have a head start here. I didn’t. Because while I thought I understood Hungarian cultural differences, I was frequently wrong. When...
I’m Anikó Woods, a Canadian-Hungarian who’s been knee-deep in life here since 2017 - bureaucracy, culture, and everything in between.