Winter time means ice skating time. Here are some rinks:

If you are at a lose end these holidays with the kids, you could do worse than an afternoon at the cinema.

With all the excitement of moving to a new country and setting up a new life, it can be easy to overlook things that are common considerations back home. One of those is the issue of fire safety.

Many times we either go out without the intention of having a drink or we have our car because we’d rather not have to drive it all the way home before a mid-week dinner / drinks get together. In Hungary, the drinking and driving tolerance is zero per cent! Many of us moved here from …

Expat Echo has put together a list of useful Hungarian phrases for the festive season!

Most expats relocating with a company have health insurance as part of their package, but does this insurance cover you outside your current country or residence? Here is a simple table with all the major insurers listed

As is the trend over the last few years, mineral water in Hungary comes in a seemingly endless jubilee of different varieties. A trip to the supermarket just adds to the confusion, now that the supermarkets all seem to have various water aisles.  Here, for the first time, is as definitive as is possible list …

Ask any expat, and one of the things they say they miss most from home is TV. There are of course ways to watch telly from home, but some of the methods are somewhat legally ambiguous, and its often not worth the hassel. However Channel 4, the UK Government owned commercial channel, which screens shows …

There is a wide variety of private healthcare options in Budapest. Expat Echo weighs the options…

Surprisingly, dialing in Hungary is not as straightforward as one might assume. Expat Echo provides the details on digits.

So, you’re here, in Budapest, in a lovely new house, but the furniture is, well, not to your taste. Don’t worry, Budapest has plenty of places to bag a bookcase, snare a sofa or procure a pouf.

Occasionally, an expat might complain about “bad” Hungarian driving, when in reality the problem lies with the expat not fully knowing the local rules of the road.

Nowadays, the health conscious often opt for bottled water over tap water. However, few are aware of the impact their choice of H2O tipple has on the environment. Bottled water consumption has more than doubled globally in the last six years and is greatly taxing the world’s ecosystem.