by Liz | Mar 15, 2020 | History and Inventions
March 15th is a national holiday in Hungary, designed to commemorate the events of the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution. There are typically huge celebrations all around the country as well as all around the world. Celebrate wherever you live and learn a bit about what...
by Liz | Feb 14, 2020 | Wine & Kitchen Conversations
Let’s talk about Kifli! But to set the stage for this discussion, let’s talk about the game Telephone! If you have ever played this game, you know that someone starts it off by one person whispering a sentence very quietly to the person next to them and...
by Liz | Feb 14, 2020 | History and Inventions
A couple of years ago, I was able to visit Mohács, Hungary during the Carnival season. Carnival — Farsang, in Hungarian, marks the end of winter. Some of the celebration is connected to fertility as well as the destruction of Old Man Winter. There is a lot of...
by Liz | Feb 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
The focus of my international traveling experience involves exploring Hungary and Transylvania, the area of Romania with a larger concentration of Hungarians. Here is a little bit of what have I learned during my frequent trips over the last several years. Look Up and...
by Liz | Feb 10, 2020 | Holidays and Traditions, Uncategorized
We spent 8 nights in Hungary exploring! Here is a little sampling of what we did!
