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Palinka! Palinka! Palinka! Festival 2013
Yes! Palinka lovers, you get to taste more than 300 different types of palinka, this special Hungarian type of brandy. Most of these palinka are produced by family-run distilleries. At the festival is not to be missed Hungarian sausages, cheese and chocolate. Live music accompanies! Day pass is 2000 HUF, Festival Pass is 5500 HUF.
When: May 16 to 19, 2013
Where: Erzsébet Square
What: Over 400 spirits, 25 exhibitors and the Pálinka of the Year.
Website: http://www.budapestipalinkafesztival.hu/eng/program.html
How much: 2000 HUF for Day Pass
Festival Pass: 5500 HUF
Landscape painting
Landscape painting depicts the physical world that surrounds us and includes features such as mountains, valleys, vegetation, and bodies of water. The sky is another important element shaping the mood of landscape paintings. Landscape art ranges from highly detailed and realistic to impressionistic, romantic and idealized. While landscape oil painting predominates, acrylic, and even mixed media are common mediums. One can trace early representations of landscape to the Minoan period. In many ancient cultures landscape frescoes served as an extension of nature.
Although landscape paintings focus on the natural world, they are by no means simple, pretty images featuring greenery and sky. Landscape artists take a two dimensional canvas and create a beautiful three dimensional world. The impact landscape painting had during this time period was so powerful it required people “to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity." Contemporary landscapes often feature the human hand; buildings, roads, fences. One of the popular trends in contemporary landscape painting is plein air painting, said to convey nature in a fuller way than studio painting.
Budapest to Copenhagen
Along our way to Stockholm, we decided to hop past Copenhagen for a day. Just a short 'hop'. The flight from Budapest to Copenhagen is about 1 hour 50 minutes only.
Everyone will tell you how amazing is the 'Church of Our Saviour'. It seems to me this is the only real landmark other than the overstated icon of Copenhagen called 'The Little Mermaid". You can see it in the harbour off Langelinie promenade. 'She' is seated on a rock but of course, she is just a 'copy'. The original has been stolen, defaced, damaged, vandalised and even decapitated. Since the existing one today is a copy, I did not even take any photos of the fake one.
The Danish architects are certainly paying lots of attention to the details. Historic or contemporary architectures, each has a unique story to tell.
Tivoli, Europe's second oldest amusement park is just a few steps away from where we were accommodated. We also visited the neighbourhood in Christianiahavn. With only about 850 residents, this place with its own Christiana Law is quite amazing. It has a facade of quite ramshackle buildings, but the interiors are very artistic. I like that it is very informal. And I dislike that they are very protective about taking photos of their place - Christiania.
Børsen - Stock Exchange, Copenhagen
This building is a Dutch renaissance style built in 1619. It is situated on Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen. You know what the three crowns on the top of up to 56 meters represents? Well, they represents the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden :)
This is one of my favourite impression of Copenhagen:
I would not say Copenhagen is the most beautiful capital city. However, I do think it has a special ambience and considering visiting it in the Autumn, it has a very special mood.
SLEEPING BEAUTY ｜ HÁROMSZÉK DANCE ENSEMBLE
The curse of an evil fairy.
The deadly slumber sleep of 100 years.
The 7 virtues: Spera – hope, Justitia – justice, Credo – faith, Carita – love, Temperantia – moderation, Fortitudo – strength and Sapientia – wisdom.
Performed by the Háromszék Dance Ensemble, Sapientia is the seventh fairy, whom they forget to invite to the christening and due to her anger, she uses the virtue of knowledge to an evil end. To save the Princess from the curse the good fairies hide her in the forest. The animals representing the Seven Deadly Sins guard the Prince’s clothes, with which Sleeping Beauty can be saved from death.
Music by Zeno Apostolache guest artist
Sets and costumes: Zsuzsanna Bagoly guest artist
Text by Lóránd Bartha guest artist
Professional advisor: Enikő Imreh–Marton guest artist, Gizella Tekeres
Assistant director: Misi Fazekas guest artist
Directed and choreographed by László Ivácson
Duration: 60 minutes, without intermission .
When: 10:30am, 3pm, 2nd May 2013
Where: National Dance Theatre, Main Auditorium
When: 10:30am, 3pm, 2nd May 2013
Where: National Dance Theatre, Main Auditorium
Ticket price: 800 HUF
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble Heritage House: Song of the Stag
The stag in the Song of the Stag has a certain symbolism in relation to the European cultural history. The wizard, the fair, the demon, the king of the dead, this stag represents eternal restoration.
If you like lyrical phrases with basic symbols within it, you will definitely need to catch this program Music: Kelemen László Costumes: Furik Rita Lighting and visuals: Kovács Gerzson Péter Dramaturgy: Prezsmer Boglárka Choreographers: Orza Calin, Fitos Dezső, Furik Rita, Kocsis Enikő, Mihályi Gábor
Director-choreographer, artistic leader: Mihályi Gábo
http://budapestdancefestival.hu/
How to get there: http://goo.gl/maps/wD3MA
Nagyobb térképre váltás
When: Sunday, 28 April 2013
Time: 07:00 PM
Where: Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre
Duration: 75 minutes .
Ticket prices: 3 800 HUF, 3 300 HUF, 2 200 HUF
How Baby-friendly is Budapest?
Finding a baby-friendly or child-friendly restaurant in Budapest is not really that easy. We found a very nice place when we met our friends from UK. This restaurant at Pauley Ede ut. is called Pest Vakvarjú Restaurant. Other than having a 'play area' for your child, the staff look into the details and this restaurant stamp your parking card to entitle you to a 15 percent discount if you use the secured central passage parking garage just a few walking steps away.
Our guest from UK ordered this. Zsolt tried this dish also. For me, I had pork knuckle and it was pretty good. If you are curious, here a photo of my order, the Squealer :)
1. Rowing at City Park Lake, Vajdahunyad Castle, Budapest
Besides photography, you can have a little picnic by the City Park Lake. There is a photo exhibition about the reconstruction of this castle area as well as 'Art on the Lake' exhibits of three dimensional art pieces.
After the sunset, you can chill on those colourful bean bags that are intentionally placed at a strategic spot where it overlooks the lake. There are some nice music too :)
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PMP certification training
Dining sets
Rectangle Mirror
Gold mirrors
Square dining table
Jofran dining
Sales Class
Cigars
Pipe Tobacco
Perdomo
World's Best Jump Roper in Budapest
Filmmaker Devin Graham visited Budapest, Hungary last June to capture world-champion skipping rope performer Adrienn Banhegyi jump rope. Banhegyi also performs with Cirque de Soleil and holds two world records for jump roping.
Sparty in Budapest 2013
Sparty Dates for 2013:
April: 6, 13, 20, 27
May: 4, 11, 18, 25
Where to sparty?
Sparty locations:
Szechenyi Baths Budapest A Neo-Baroque and Neo-Renaissance bath that used to be a palace and located on the Pest side of Budapest. The others on the Buda side included Gellert Baths, Kiraly Baths, Rudas Baths and Lukacs Baths. If you like Turkish bath, choose the Kiraly Baths, Lukacs or the Rudas Bath. Want modern facilities to go with it? Then choose Rudas Bath. Gellert Bath is an Art Nouveau bath though.
How much?
Tickets: HUF 5,000 (€18)How to get there?
Public Transportation
What time?
9 pm to 3 am, Saturday
