Yep.  It’s that time of year again.  As a seasoned expat who’s spent thirteen years in Budapest, it’s safe to say I’ve had my fair share of farewells.  Each year, I cry through at least one big tissue-box-worth of goodbyes. 

A new water fountain has been created on the south side of Szabadsag ter, in district V.  It is a fun interactive fountain that is surely going to bring much joy to children through the summer, and those young at heart as well.  The fountain has sensors that detect when someone is near and stops …

Recently, our family (we have three children under the age of nine years old) has started to enjoy eating out on Sundays. There are lots and lots of fantastic Sunday brunch options in town, however, we are more of a breakfast OR lunch type of family. It has become something that my husband and I …

Recently I have noticed my 3rd grade son’s peers are popping up with email accounts, Facebook accounts and/or mobile phones. Sometimes I feel a little old fashioned with allowing my son (or his two younger sisters) to have access to any of these communication tools. It’s a conversation I have talked to with other parents …

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 …

Recently we ordered our holiday food delivery from the Intercontinental Budapest. I’d like to share my wonderful experience with all of you Budapest expats.

Other than the UNICEF Christmas cards you’ll find at a lot of the Christmas markets, this year you can be lucky enough to buy off of designer, Diane Kappa:

This weekend my husband and I took our 3 children ages 8, 6 and 3 to the Balaton. I knew a lot of developments had been made since we last visited years ago and we wanted to go and see them for ourselves. We narrowed down the area we wanted to visit between …

‘Tis the season when we are all getting back into the swing of things, including getting the kids settled back into school. In my case, my 3 ½ year old has just started and has been in floods of tears every morning until… voila, yesterday! I’m so thrilled she is finally okay and has even …

Due to the global recession, Rózsakert Medical Center has recently announced a price adjustment to 270 Hungarian forint to 1 Euro. For more information please visit Rózsakert’s website.

It’s not always easy to bake our children’s birthday cakes. It seems that each of our 3 children end up getting three birthday cakes for each birthday: 1 for our family celebration which is always eaten after their dinner of choice on their actual birthday; 1 for their class at school and 1 for their …

Ever since I moved into district 2A (off of Hidegkuti), I have been waiting for a place like Café Provence to open. It’s a fab neighborhood place for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Very casual with a wonderful garden that the kids can run around in. For indoor eating there are lots of toys and space …

Here are two places that do fish delivery:
www.hollandfishfood.com
www.rozmar.hu
www.oceanbargrill.hu