Beautiful and useful. Practical, but gives you a new perspective. Here you’ll find stories from Budapest and across Europe — reports from events, glimpses of everyday life, and reflections that place it all into cultural context.

Three Times the Start - A song to make words flow again

Between two cigarettes and a sea of used hankies, I dragged myself to the piano. I hadn't written anything real in nearly twenty years. I was a freshly heartbroken single mum of two, sitting alone in a Budapest flat, with no idea what I was doing. What happened next changed everything. This is the story of Three Times — and of what it costs to mute yourself for two decades, and what it feels like when the words finally come back.

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Budapest: Love Affair by Candlelight Supper

What is it like to live in Budapest right now? A candlelight supper on the Pesti Rakpart shows the city’s resilience, community spirit, and evolving identity. A little story of a night of candlelight that Hyacinth Bucket herself might even approve of. :)

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Dragons in the Swampy Castle - Rethinking Behaviour in Hungarian Schools

Gold stars, red dots, black points—tiny marks that once decided who we were in class. Many of us still remember that quiet pressure to be “good.” In Swampy, Castles, and Classrooms, we take a closer look at how to turn punitive behaviour systems into something constructive—by placing trust in our children and reframing the old, harmful stories we grew up with.

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