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Sunday Family Lunch Date Sunday Family Lunch Date

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 …

Raising children in a connected world Raising children in a connected world

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 …

Chauffeur services Chauffeur services

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 …

Season’s Greetings Season’s Greetings

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.

Trendy Christmas Cards Trendy Christmas Cards

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:

Escape to the Balaton! Escape to the Balaton!

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 …

Welcome from Erika Welcome from Erika

‘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 …

Rózsakert adjusts their price Rózsakert adjusts their price

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.

Birthday’s in Budapest Birthday’s in Budapest

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 …

Café Provence (kid friendly!) Café Provence (kid friendly!)

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 …

Something fishy Something fishy

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

Vaccination schedules Vaccination schedules

Whether you are moving around a lot, a little or having children outside of your home country, you need to be aware of your home and host country’s vaccination schedules. One thing I never thought about until having kids outside of American, my home country, is what schedule would I put my kids on.

Spring Clean – ‘Lomtalanitás’ Spring Clean – ‘Lomtalanitás’

If you live in Pest and have noticed the massive piles of junk accumulating on street corners, don’t be alarmed, it is the annual clean up day for the 7th district.