Europe is know for its many speciality foods, but you might not realise that the various European countries have several popular liquors (or liqueurs, I never know for sure). Of course, souvenir shops in the various tourist hotspots, as well as the airports, carry plenty of the stock, but I thought I’d point out my [...]

  Hungary’s capital city, Budapest, is a charming and bustling European capital full of baths, shopping, and sightseeing.  My favourite stop of all, though, was wandering alongside the waters of the Danube river, which separates the city into its two halves:  Buda and Pest.  You can go during the daytime or at night, but you’ll [...]

With some Budapest hotels offering free nights over this winter, it might be a good time to pop by and then you can follow up my tip: a swim in the Gellert Baths and Spa. You might be starting to think I’m obsessed with Hungarian baths after I raved about the Heviz Thermal Baths but [...]

The Hungarian National Tourist Office is running a Winter promotion where some Budapest hotels offer the third night free you if you pay for 2 nights or the fourth night free if you pay for three nights. More than 60 hotels are taking part in the promotion. Unfortunately I couldn’t ascertain which hotels had which [...]

The Heviz Thermal Baths are the kind of magical place that force me into pretty, alliterative headlines like this one, but I promise there’s good reason for it. I wasn’t expecting to really get into the thermal bath culture that’s so prominent through central and eastern Europe but by starting out visiting Hungary’s Heviz baths, [...]