Fool’s Day

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Zsolt

The Soteria Foundation has organized a marching yesterday in the downtown of Budapest. The foundation provides community-based services for people with mental health problems and the aim of the demonstration was to raise the voice against the stigmatization of the media that tendenciously shows people with mental health problems as dangerous murders or other criminals. Statistically there is no relevant difference between the criminality of people with mental health disorders and between the so called “normal” population.

Hussars

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Zsolt

Just like last year and in the previous years we have visited the March 15th celebration in Budapest yesterday. I just love the (finally) coming spring, the weak sunshine and the smell of fresh air. And of course the hussars with horses are also cool.:)

Our previous posts about hussars:

15th of March – National Holiday

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Zsolt

We celebrate the anniversary of the 1848-49 revolution. This photo was taken at the memorial of Áron Gábor.

Áron Gábor (27 November 1814, Breţcu – 2 July 1849, Chichiş) was a Hungarian artillery officer and national hero of the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution. Áron Gábor was a revolutionary hero of the Székely people (in Transylvania). He became one of the leaders of Székely-Hungarian forces in Transylvania during the 1848 revolution against the Austrian Empire. He achieved fame and notoriety by successfully producing cannon and gunpowder for the Hungarian forces in Transylvania, as well as, leading the resistance in Háromszék County (today roughly Covasna County, Romania) against imperial troops. He was killed in action in July 1849 while fighting against the Tsarist invading forces.

Lock of Love

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Zsolt

These locks are on the Erzsébet square (Vth district of Budapest). Each lock represents a couple. The idea was initiated by a dating portal called randivonal.hu.

Critical Mass

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Zsolt

I write every year about this movement of cyclists in Budapest on this blog. I really support them and as yesterday the organizers claimed….every year the number of people using bicycle in the city is doubled. This will be really a critical mass, soon.

Demonstration

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Zsolt

NGOs are demonstrating against the enormous paperwork and hostile attitude of the authorities distributing the European Union sources in Hungary. Its a common joke among Hungarian non-governmental organizations providing social or health services: “I have a bad news! We won an EU grant!”

Nora’s Budapest

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Zsolt

Today our guest photographer is Nora. She has attended the Élő Duna Fesztivál (Living Danube Festival) yesterday.

A new environmental project was implemented in Budapest creating a new Central Wastewater Treatment Plant. The project was financed mainly by the Europen Union and the festival is related to this achievement.

In the mall

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Zsolt

I thought that this kind of fun is popular only in Japan:) Its in the Westend mall in Budapest.

ARC exhibition – Budapest

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Zsolt

ARC is an art initiative for talented people. Every year they dedicate the outdoor exhibition to certain topics and people can apply with their works/ideas to be featured in Budapest. This year they encouraged people to react on the recent crisis under the title “restart, rerouting”.
The photo is one of the featured work made by Molnár Attila Baedecker.

See more featured works here.

Opening ceremony

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Zsolt

The semester has started at the Universities in Budapest. I don’t know which department hold the opening ceremony this morning but definitelly not ours since my students are mostly female.

Gödör Klub

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Zsolt

The Gödör Klub is still very popular in Budapest. Its right in the downtown, a perfect location for the youth to hang out. I like the atmosphere there. See our previous posts on Gödör klub: