Mád, Hungary is little more than a dab on the eastern Hungarian landscape – a tiny town among hundreds of time worn villages sprinkled across rural Hungary. We came to Mád to visit the beautiful and distinctive baroque synagogue. Little… Read More ›
Day trips from Budapest
Gödöllő Palace, Habsburg Opulence in Rural Hungary
A day trip to Godollo, Hungary to view the opulent Hapsburg palace and hunting lodge.
In Search of Serbia in Szentendre, Hungary
As the HÉV train rumbles through the increasingly rural countryside north of Budapest, I read about the history of Szentendre, ‘Saint Andrew’. Hungarians climb aboard and then depart again, ladened with the purchases of their Saturday morning errands. Come summer,… Read More ›
Óbuda: A little bit communism, a little bit ancient Budapest
During the last century, adjacent towns across Hungary joined to form cities. And so it was with the formation of Budapest; a city created from the piece parts of Buda, Pest and Óbuda. Óbuda, literally translated as “Old Buda”, is… Read More ›
Vac, Hungary: The lesser known Danube Bend town
The Danube Bend is the area north of Budapest where the Danube River jogs abruptly left making a 90 degree turn as it heads west to Bratislava and Vienna. Most tourists stay on the hilly Buda side of the river… Read More ›
The World In Between 