Slovenia dreaming
Hotel Grad Otocec, a member of Relais & Chateaux
In a blissful dream, we drive over the border to an enchanted land where we stay at a smart hotel in a charming castle. The castle is on a small[…]
In a blissful dream, we drive over the border to an enchanted land where we stay at a smart hotel in a charming castle. The castle is on a small[…]
Hungary has been in international headlines for months over the government’s hardline policy on migrants, but is not alone in rejecting asylum seekers. On the opposite side of the globe[…]
If you are an Art Nouveau partisan I highly recommend a visit to the town of Subotica, or Szabadka as it is known by Hungarians. This very deluxe town with[…]
Suspects apprehended by counter-terrorism force TEK have no affiliation with Islamic extremist groups, Zsolt Molnár, head of parliament’s national security committee, has said. In November TEK said it apprehended six[…]
Prisoner of war William Ash modestly denied that he was the model for Virgil Hilts, the airman played by Steve McQueen in the 1963 film “The Great Escape”. Ash said[…]
Thirteen Jews survived the Holocaust in Budapest after being hidden in a District VI basement for more than a year in 1944-45 by two employees of the Embassy of Czechoslovakia.[…]
Sixty-five years ago the new airport of the Hungarian capital began operation. The historic event occurred on May 7, 1950, when an Li-2 passenger aircraft flew to Ferihegy from nearby[…]
The Hungarian national ice hockey team has accomplished what only two other Hungarian teams have done over the past 75 years – to qualify for a top-flight international tournament. A[…]
If you’ve been puzzled by the unseemly green fencing sullying the sightlines surrounding Budapest’s palatial Museum of Fine Arts in Heroes’ Square, then you’ll be forgiven for wondering just what[…]
“The Notebook” brings up the discussion, what makes a person violent? Some may say an individual is born that way. It is part of their genes. They were born with[…]