From Madrid I moved to London where I spent two years. Here I started to work as a recruiter which has been my profession ever since. From London I moved back to Budapest with a bag full of Marmite and salt-vinegar crisps and an amazing collection of friends and memories from all over the Big City. However, before any serious attempt to settle down in my home town I left again for an incredible 6-month-backpacking trip in SE Asia, New Zealand and Australia. 4 years ago I returned once again to Budapest, changed my backpack for a laptop and my tracking boots for heels and have been working in HR ever since.

Still, from time to time I change my outfit, grab my passport and head for the outdoors, wherever the next cheap flight would take me.

1. Where did you grow up?
Suburbia outside Budapest.

2. What Hungarian traditions bring back fond memories of your childhood?
Not strictly speaking traditions, but this is how things used to be: going to primary school on our own and with our friends (no parents ever took their kids to school by car); being alone with my brothers at home after school till my parents came home from work (babysitters: unheard of. Parental worries: less than these days)

3. What would you miss most if you moved away from Hungary?
Sziget Fesztival. Túró Rudi. The Danube. Tejföl. Túró. Kefir. Krémes. Budapest in the Summer. Romkocsma. Art cinemas.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
Thermal spas. “Romkocsma”: (Szimpla, Gödör, Bobek, Kuplung, Mumus, Instant, Gang, Corvin Tető). A good gig in A38.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Rakott krumpli+kovászos uborka (a potato-eggs-sausage dish with pickled gherkins).

6. What is never missing from your kitchen?
Sausage, sour cream, Marmite.

7. What is your favourite place in Hungary?
Budapest and the Káli Basin.

8. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Quality inspector for 5 star hotels around the world.

9. What’s a job you would definitely never want?
Payroll clerk.

10. Where did you spend your last vacation?
Backpacking Sicily.

11. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
Backpacking the less touristy bits of Spain.

12. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Aerosmith. The Big Blue. Watching tennis on TV.

13. What can’t you resist?
Sweets, especially Haribo’s gummy bears. (The red ones J)

14. Red wine or white?
Rosé by Sterlik (Sopron)

15. Kolbász or szalámi?
Kolbász

16. Book or movie?
Less and less books unfortunately, ever since the internet has started to occupy my professional and private time too. A movie person lately.

17. Morning person or night person?
Night

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Environmental pollution.

19. Buda or Pest side?
Pest for entertainment. Buda for living.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
If you don’t like it, change it.