Bottlehugger Ben and I were very happy to get an invite from Xpatloop.com to attend their wine tasting with Izabella Zwack last night (June 30) at the Radisson SAS Béke Hotel on Terez Krt.Read more »

I have hated and despised Siofok since coming to Hungary. If you love gich and techno music and feeling like a sardine, it is the place for you, but not for me. This weekend, thankfully, was different. I went down to a rented house near Siofok in Balatonszeplak with Bottlehugger Ben, his family and several other families.Read more »

Why are we trying to save Hunyadi ter from the corrupt and idiotic 6^th District Council and Mayor’s Office? First and foremost, it is the only green lung left downtown besides Nagymezo u. (which the 6^th District is likewise aggressively trying to deforest). The playground is always full of kids, and the old plane tress are lovely.Read more »

Dear fans and friends of Treehugger Dan's Bookstore Cafe:Read more »

At the gym yesterday there was this beautiful and very fit woman on the treadmill, just hitting it for an hour. She later got into an easily-overheard  conversation with someone, saying that she is so terribly bored in Budapest that she comes to the gym 2-times a day to run for an hour. How can one be so bored in Budapest?Read more »

Returning back to Pest after out swimming in the outdoor 50m pool at the Csazar Baths next to Komjadi yesterday, I passed by Jaszai Mari ter. There was a minivan backed up at the end of Falk Miksa u. onto Szt. Istvan krt and it was selling milk fresh from the farmer for 180 huf/litre. Maybe you can bring your own refillable bottle - not sure, but worthwhile to ask.Read more »

May 28th saw the premier of Ignite Budapest, the first time in fact an Ignite! event has been held in Central and Eastern Europe. If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? This is the concept behind Ignite, an evening of short talks on various topics by different local speakers.Read more »

Niall Connolly promised me he would make me cry again, and damn him he delivered, tears of joy again. The Voice & the Verse rolled into town again on June 3rd, marking the 6th(?) time they have now performed at Treehugger Dan's.Read more »

This weekend I had the pleasure to attend the first national NGO Gathering for Kosovar environmental NGOs. The real pleasures came at the beginning and the end.Read more »

For the past 2 months or so I have been going to the gym again. I am tired of playing squash, skiing, cycling, or even just getting out of bed and hurting my back, knee, calf, whatever. I trying to get into shape, and as a goal, with my friend Kevin, we are aiming to do the Balaton Swim this summer. There is the 3.4km version across the bay, and the longer 5.4km swim which we will be doing. So far we are up to 2.5km a day in the pool, but it is very different in open water.Read more »