SZIGET Festival has started today in Budapest. This time without us because with a 6 weeks old baby we do not fit the environment. Some later guys.:)
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Snétberger Music Talent Center
Sárközi Lili and Sárközi Józsika students of the Snétberger Music Talent Center are performing in the Ráday street. The Center supports talented Roma youngsters to improve their skills in jazz, classical and world music. The initiative was established by one of my favourite Hungarian jazz guitarist Ferenc Snétberger.
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Winter’s Special Protection | Mihály Vörösmarty
Downtown Pest. Here’s where the Carrara marble statue of Mihály Vörösmarty can be found. If you are a tourist visiting during this time, you see it only in this manner. Just because in Winter, this statue is protected in this ‘bubble-like’ special protective material.
Ede Kallós and architect Ede Telcs had their work made from Haraszt quarry limestone blocks. Mihály Vörösmarty is surrounded by figures representing all classes of society: worker with his wife and small son, man wearing traditional ceremonial clothes, woman with a baby in her arms, schoolboy, old peasant, farmer and peasant girl, gentlewoman and grown-up student, shepherd boy, and old woman with her grandchild. If you are curious, click here for the ‘unveiled version‘ :)
Christmas Fair, Christmas Festival in Budapest
Smelled the wonderful aroma of the fresh bread ‘lángos’ that is baked in traditional “Töki” clay oven or these sinful looking but very delicious skewed meat. Keep your body warm by sipping hot Mulled Wine served in special ‘Budapest designed’ mug which you can take home. That just summarizes the Christmas festivity mood here in Budapest, but you really must experience the mood of it!
Bikicsunáj
In a Hungarian talent-show a man that can’t speak English at all tried to perform singing Alphaville’s Big in Japan the way he understood it.:) He has been disqualified from the show but became very popular on the internet during the last weeks. So one language school took the opportunity to advertise it’s courses with the phrase: BIKICSUNÁJ or Big in Japan.
You can see the BIKICSUNÁJ version of the Alphaville song here:
Fireworks in Budapest
This year the 20th of August fireworks were really very amazing in Budapest. And Richard was right in his comment yesterday, the event was pretty touchy when they played the national anthem in the middle of it. See more photos here.
20th of August celebration
20th of August is lets say the birthday of Hungary. We celebrate the establishment of our country which has happened in 1008 years ago. One of the main event on this day is the firework over the river Danube at 9.00pm.
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