Programs

Alright, let’s get this straight. You could have come any week. You could have picked a quiet, sleepy week when the city is just getting back to its post-summer routine. But you didn’t. You, my friend, with your impeccable, if…

SZIN-sational Festivals, Roman Legions & Wine Spritzers Szervusz fellow culture vultures! So you’ve finally decided to escape the tourist circus that is Budapest? Brilliant. Because while everyone else is queuing for overpriced lángos on Váci utca, Hungary’s countryside is throwing…

Look, let’s be honest here. August is usually when cities start winding down, tourists begin their exodus back to reality, and locals slowly emerge from their summer hideouts blinking like moles. But Budapest? Oh no, Budapest had other plans. The…

As a Budapest local and the writer behind HungaryUnlocked, I’ve seen it all. I’ve seen tourists try to order goulash soup as a main course (a cardinal sin), I’ve seen bachelor parties bravely descend into the labyrinthine world of ruin…

Let’s be honest, we Hungarians have a reputation. We’re seen as a bit pessimistic, a nation of inventors who created the Rubik’s Cube just to have something new to be frustrated about. We don’t exactly “jump for joy”; we’re more…