I already visited Hungary in the eighties for several times with my hungarian boyfriend, who studied photography in Darmstadt that time. We decided to settle over to Budapest in the beginning of the nineties.

I worked mainly for international advertising agencies and publishing houses and some hungarian clients as well.

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
I arrived in 1993 following my hungarian boyfriend, a photographer.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
No. I had been jeune fille au-pair in Paris, though.

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
To find so many cool, attractive, critical, creative people with lot's of humour and spirit at one place.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
Having a walk or going by bike near the danube, stop on Margaret Island (or Szentendre) for a picnik, going back by boat until Vigadó square, having coffee or at Gerbeauds or in Gresham Palace. Relax in Szécheny bath or the bath of Gellert Hotel, take a drink ,apperitif on Corvin tetö, going for dinner to Fészek garden. Walk through the 7th district with its Synagogues, taking a drink in szimpla kert.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Palatcsinta, körözô, csusza and túró rudi. Let's say everything where túró is in and the best sourcream of the world: tejföl.

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Milk, butter, eggs, cheese, tejföl, ham, tomatoes, paprika.

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Gyöngyörû.

8. What do you miss most from home?
The language, my friends and my family.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Florist.

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Bodyguard.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
In Börzsöny.

12. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?
Montenegro could be interesting.

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
My sister, a friend of us and me played all Beatlessongs on the guitar. The Beatles were divided up between us, So our friend reserved John Lennon for herself, my sister choosed Paul McCartney and I were so free to choose between George Harrison and Ringostar.

I got a Cat Stevens LP as a present from my first boyfriend. I were following the jazzdancewave in the seventies influenced by Grease or Saturdaynightfever and I had a spleen for Earth, Wind and Fire. So we worked out a choreography for our jazzdancegroup on 'Fantasy'.

14. What can't you resist?
Mousse au chocolat, all kinds of chocolate, Túró Rudi, Túrógombóc, Számos Marcipán, Parmesanflan, Soufflé. All kinds of cheese.

15. Red wine or white?
Both. It depends on summertime, wintertime and the food it goes with.

16. Book or movie?
Both.

17. Morning person or night person?
Rather night.

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Drugs, homeless people, hunger and suffer in the 3rd world, juvenile delinquency, abandoned elderly people, abandoned children.

19. Buda or Pest side?
I live on Pest side.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
Be positive.