Budapest Soup Festival, Elvis Presley Park, 26 - 28 April

The Budapest Soup Festival (Budai Levesfesztivál) was organized for the first time. Held in the Elvis Pressley Park, with a mixture of Hungarian and International soups, where you could find the usual suspects (fish, meat, gulyas, vegetable, bean, fruit, liver dumpling and onion-in-bread soup), as well as, the not so usual ones.

It was not quite as big as the other food festivals I have been to this year, which I kind of liked this time. It allowed me to go around and try some of the other delights on show, such as the Belgium fruit beer, sweet n salty crepes, fruit wine, some “Yugoslavian food”, rice soup with sausage and prize-winning homemade Hungarian beer.

It also gave me a taster of things to come, and as the afternoon unfolded, you could hear the sounds of gypsy violinists and which really got you in the mood for the summer…to come.

Words and photos by Russell Skidmore for XpatLoop.com
After an extensive career in advertising - as an Art Director & Creative Director in London, Paris and Budapest for leading agencies - Russel transferred the skills and knowledge gained to the development of his own successful company covering wedding, event, PR and portrait photography: www.russell-skidmore-photography.co.uk