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MAGYAR MINUTE

Magyar Minute follows a former music producer and performer who first came to Hungary in 2001, kept being drawn back, and made it home when his half-Hungarian son was born. It's the Hungary the guidebooks leave out: the small things that explain the big ones.

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Stories from the ground.

01Budapest Doesn’t Erase Its Scars. It Repurposes Them.02Hungary. The Danube. A Reason I Never Saw Coming 03Hungary Just Ended 16 Years of Orbán in One Election

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I started Magyar Minute on my own, but I never wanted it to stay a one-person thing. If you're living your own corner of Hungary, I'd love to make room for your story here: on the site, credited to you, with a link back to your channel. It stays yours everywhere else.

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Learning Hungary by living in it.

I'm an American in Hungary. Magyar Minute is what I'm calling the notes I take here. Some of it I write down. Some I post. Some I'm still working out. If something here makes you slow down and look closer too, that's the point.

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