Dec
29
We meet Budapest fashionista Dora Henger in the café of design hotel Lánchíd19 where she has virtually set up a temporary office until she opens her first boutique next door. The daughter of entrepreneurs and a product designer by training, 29 year-old Dora is one half of the duo behind online store, Our Style (www.ourstyle.hu). …
Dec
28
It’s rare that I devote an edition of Take-Homes to one shop. In the eleven months of our grand tour, I’ve done it just three times before, in Ceret (La Boheme, a shop keeping traditional Catalan fabric alive), Bali (Threads of Life, a fair-trade textiles and crafts co-op), and San Miguel de Allende (Ave Maria, …
Dec
28
“What period do you think we are speaking about when we talk of ‘Retro Budapest’,” my guide, Bálint Horváth from Unique Budapest asks me. “Um, the 1950s and ’60s…?” I suggest. “No. Not really… not for us. It’s the 1970s and ’80s,” he says. Oh dear, I think to myself, I am getting old. Born in 1967, …
Dec
27
We first visited the Terror Háza Múzeum or House of Terror in Budapest a few years ago and were so impressed with its cutting-edge exhibits – more akin to art installations than museum displays – that we had to return this trip. We’ve been avoiding the top 10 sights and must-do monuments on our grand …
Dec
26
Food writer Carolyn Bánfalvi was our guide for our Markets Tour in Budapest. Her knowledge of the local cuisine was so fantastic that we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to ask her a few more questions about eating and drinking in Budapest and get some tips for culinary take-homes from the city. Carolyn has lived …
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