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The stereotype says Hungarians are cold, even unhappy. After years of greeting strangers across Budapest, an American found…
A life built on the absence of routine starts to crave it, somewhere between visa paperwork and a…
Hungary is landlocked, so it made a sea of its own. A closer look at Lake Balaton: the…
May 1 brings Hungary to a standstill. Munka ünnepe is really three holidays stacked on one date: a…
Follow a two-year-old through Budapest and the city rearranges itself. On playgrounds, green Buda afternoons, and the small…
Lake Balaton is Hungary's sea, and Siófok its summer capital. A look at the southern shore beyond the…
A touring musician walked into a Siófok nightclub with a camera and walked out a producer. How an…
Hungary's disznótor, the communal pig feast, is less about the meat than the gathering. From an annual feast…
A capital is a front door, not a house. Why the real Hungary, and the case for spending…
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