Budapest Take-Homes: Recycled Retro-Cool Keepsakes

Budapest Take-Homes: Recycled Retro-Cool Keepsakes. Budapest, Hungary. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

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, … Read more

A Retro Walk Back in Time in Present Day Budapest

A Retro Walk Back in Time in Present Day Budapest, Hungary. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved. A Retro Walk Back in Time in Budapest.

“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. I take a retro walk back in time in Budapest. Oh dear, I think … Read more