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Greening Your December Holidays

Greening Your December Holidays

The Soul of a Blue Rabbit

keknyul hammondI have been waiting all my life, and half of that in Budapest, to see a live soul and funk band. While Budapest has an amazingly diverse and vibrant music scene, these two genres have been sadly missing - - until last night.Read more »

The Good Life in Aggtelek National Park Part XX: Polish Hucul Study Visit in Return

derenk tour with ranger Imre MihalikIn July, 38 staff of Aggtelek National Park visited the Gladyszow breeding centre in Regietow, Poland (http://treehugger.hu/node/1085).Read more »

The Good Life in Aggtelek National Park Part XIX: Bódvaszilas Cabbage Festival

unnepi langosPreparing the winter garden required some serious help from some earth moving equipment. Thursday evening Albert came by to take a last look at the work to be done and first noticed Mihaly mushrooms (I cannot find these in any mushroom lexicon, it must be the local or folk name.Read more »

Meeting the Relatives

wild chestnutWe took a trip to Dombovar last weekend, a city I had never even heard of until I started going out with Kata, and met her sister and friends from her hometown. Dombovar is quite pretty, with a huge number of chestnut trees and beautiful courtyards and gardens.Read more »

Small Repairs

speaker repairStereo Speaker Repair

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ARC Billboard Exhibition

arcGoing for a long walk one evening last week we happened upon the annual ARC billboard exhibition near Hosok tere. Like other years, it was full of interesting and imaginative displays. The difference was the tone.Read more »

The Good Life in Aggtelek National Park Part XVIII: Walnuts, Sloes and Rose Hips

csipkebogyo krumpli vodorWe returned to the house in high hopes of our first bumper walnut harvest. Unfortunately, our lovely neighbours had gotten there first and cleaned us out.Read more »

Wekerle Days

wekerle estateI have been hearing about the architectural beauty of the Wekerle Housing Estate for years but somehow never got out there.Read more »

The National Agriculture and Food Exhibition with Aggtelek National Park

amanda toth competing in national gallopAs part of the team representing Aggtelek National Park at the 76th annual National Agriculture and Food Exhibition, I was at the HungExpo all day last Saturday and Sunday.Read more »