It was a pleasant surprise to see that I have been added to the list of contributors to the last version of Rough Guides’ to Budapest, and now I really want to do another trip to Budapest. In fact, I haven’t been to Budapest this year at all! A mini-weekend would be perfect. Well, I bought the last version of the guide and I hope to read through it the following weeks and do a trip to Budapest afterwards. I would be very happy with being able to contribute to the next version of […] Continue reading →
Funny how the media in Norway again fails to report on the flood along Donabe in Austria and Hungary. Newspapers only manage focus on one topic at the time, and the last week have been about Michael Jackson (only). I have just watched the TV news from MTV (Magyar TV) and googled for some pictures. Soldiers and volunteers are doing walls of sand bags on some parts of the river to protect buildings and roads. As so many times social media these days are a better place to search for […] Continue reading →
Norwegian has been flying Gardemoen – Budapest for years already, and have until now been alone on flying direct. Norwegian will also be flying Rygge – Budapest from upcoming spring. Their planes on the first route has always been more or less full, and the tickets have cause of this become a bit more expensive. But from next summer this might change, as the Hungarian low fair airline Wizz Air will start flying to Torp on June 26th. Here is some lines from their press release of […] Continue reading →
Just days after Schmap asked for permission to use a picture I took at Kampen for their Oslo guide, they turn to me and ask for permission to use another three pictures for their Budapest guide. Of course, also this time I gave their my permission. The pictures were taken last year when Steinar and me stayed there for 2 days, running around taking pictures mostly from the Cow Parade that was visiting town. […] Continue reading →
When Steinar and I were visiting Budapest this summer, Steinar bought the best travelling guide I have seen for Budapest so far and I have seen a few! It’s the “THE ROUGH GUIDE to Budapest“. Rough Guides has managed to build up a community of travellers reading their travel guides and comming with suggestions for improvements and corrections to parts that are outdated. And for a big city as Budapest, there will always be things in travel guides that are outdated. As the […] Continue reading →
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