We have been having a week of beautiful weather. On Monday I decided to have my lunch right outside school, looking out at the Danube with the Liberty bridge and blue skies in view. That night, there was an Erasmus event at a place by our apartment, so we invited our Hungarian friends over to…
Tag: budapest
field trip to memento park
In our last Contemporary Literature, Film and Visual Arts in Hungary class we went for a field trip about a half hour south west of Budapest to Memento Park. Memento Park is an outdoor museum of communist statues that used to be all around the city. Instead of destroying them, they removed them from Budapest…
night out with lőrinc & klári
Lőrinc and Klári invited me to hang out with a bunch of their colleagues and friends, and I was so excited. We met up by BME, sat outside drinking fröccs and played the Hungarian version of UNO (SOLO), while the sun went down. The cafe/pub where we were playing cards serves a dish called bundás…
walking aimlessly
Abby, Maddie and I had a free day (we seem to have a lot of those…) and decided to get brunch at a cute coffee shop called Fekete. Fekete means black in Hungarian and I must say, their espresso is spectacular. They have a nice courtyard, so we sat outside and took in the sun…
fresh food is good for the heart
Sometimes I get ambitious when it comes to the kitchen. I’ll scroll through cooking.nytimes.com saving all the recipes that I want to make later. I had a few salads on my list and decided tonight was going to be the night I made them all. I got ingredients for a sweet veggie quinoa salad with pistachios, a…
leves, juhász cuki, and esetleg
With a free afternoon and evening after I finished up class and volunteering for the day, I met up with Grace to get soup for lunch at a place by school called Leves. Leves is a really popular and cheap soup bar that a lot of students from Corvinus head to to grab a bite…
back to iguana’s
Abby’s friend from Charleston, Carly has been in town for a bit, and we decided to have a girl’s evening at Iguana’s because who doesn’t like Mexican food (and margaritas). Grace had a lot of thoughtful questions and we went around the table sharing information about ourselves like where our favorite place in the world…
visit to bme
Another university in Budapest, just across the bridge from where I study, Corvinus University, is Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). Both Lőrinc and Klári do research for their PhD there. I met up with them to see what they do from day to day and shared a nice afternoon with them!
nighttime ferris wheel ride over budapest
With Tessa (Maddie’s friend from Berkeley) still in town, Kriszti, our Hungarian friend, suggested taking a nighttime trip to the Sziget Eye – the Budapest Ferris wheel. With quite a dramatic view, even though it was raining, we rose way above the city.
karaván
When the rest of Maddie’s friends arrived (currently studying abroad in Copenhagen), she suggested we hit up a nearby street food market called, Karaván, for a traditional Hungarian food called lángos. Lángos is basically a savory funnel cake (so fried dough) served with sour cream and cheese on top – it kind of looks like…
walking with friends and finding wild herbs
This past weekend, Maddie’s friends were in town. We took her friend, Tessa, all around Budapest on a wonderfully sunny day. We first got bagels at Budapest Bagel, walked to the big indoor market by Corvinus and hopped on top of the Liberty bridge to enjoy the view of the Danube and Budapest. We then…
belated 3.14 day & nonnie’s bolognese
Unfortunately on Pi day, March 14th, I didn’t get the time to make pie. I put up a twitter poll to see what kind of pie I should make – either berry or apple. Apple got the most votes so I got the ingredients, whipped up the dough and let it chill in the fridge overnight….
suze abroad 