Keeping up standards
Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna
Tempus fugit, and all that. Suddenly, four years have flown by – where did they go? – since The Budapest Times spent a few days at the Palais Hansen Kempinski[…]
Tempus fugit, and all that. Suddenly, four years have flown by – where did they go? – since The Budapest Times spent a few days at the Palais Hansen Kempinski[…]
British film director Carol Reed said of Sri Lanka that “the whole island is like a technicolour film set”. Technicolour isn’t our favourite film stock, being rather garish, and Reed[…]
Slowly, deliberately, a Sri Lankan man is climbing the long thin trunk of a palm tree. Ropes have been tied around the trunk to give him hand-holds and foot-holds but[…]
Sri Lanka lays out its welcome mat as our big bird, flight QR 200 from Budapest, descends to Bandaranaike International Airport at Colombo. The mat is woven from the green[…]
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar … or, in this case, five Hungarian journalists walk into a taverna in Cyprus … It’s not a joke,[…]
Debrecen, Eger, Miskolc, Tokaj and Veszprém are listed as potential candidate cities for when Hungary next hosts the European Capital of Culture in 2023, the country’s next turn after Pécs[…]
It is early afternoon. The sun is gently shining over the azure sea. About 15-20 people are spread around this part of the seaside. They are walking about while busily[…]
I can’t honestly recommend a weekend or even a long weekend stay at this hotel and spa, not because there is anything wrong with it – on the contrary, chances[…]
There are some lovely towns to discover around Hungary beyond Budapest, in any season. This week The Budapest Times visited Kecskemét, home town of Kodály and the horsemen of the[…]
There are some lovely towns to discover around Hungary beyond Budapest, in any season. This week The Budapest Times visited the country’s second-largest city, Debrecen. If you want to know[…]