• Sunday Shopping: 'Visegrád Design Market', 22 March

    • 19 Mar 2015 11:35 AM

    WAMP starts its new season at this Sunday at Millenáris Budapest with the arrival of Spring. Regarded by many as the 'coolest design fair in Hungary', Xpats are invited to check-out around a hundred designers at the first WAMP market of the year. This time well-known Hungarian artists are joined by creative talents from the neighbouring Visegrád countries as well. As usual a gastro section will allow visitors to choose from a wide range of high-quality gastro delights. Admission tickets are HUF 500, and they can be used as a coupon for happy shopping - see the video below in the article for fun!

  • St. Patrick’s Day Parade In Budapest 2015

    • 19 Mar 2015 12:02 AM

    Here's an invitation for Xpats to participate in one of Budapest’s most colourful family-friendly events. Organisers the Irish Hungarian Business Circle promises this parade will be a bigger and better than in previous years - and they were all great so far. This time it starts at Szabadság Square in downtown Budapest at 1.30 pm this Sunday, 22 March.

  • Elodie Frégé (FR), A38 Ship, 27 March

    • 17 Mar 2015 8:00 AM

    A charming singer-songwriter, an outstanding talent, Élodie Frégé will swing the boat on this night, the shiniest star of contemporary French chanson, singer of the Nouvelle Vague band, while great melacholic pop will be performed by the Hungarian Voler Mouche, and the great party finish will come by the Acid Arab.

  • Must Do To Keep Koalas In Budapest Zoo

    • 13 Mar 2015 8:00 AM

    Budapest Zoo Press Release: Koalas can be seen in very few zoos outside Australia. It is only in Europe and North America that the stock of live koalas in zoos is growing and the circle of zoos in which Koalas can be found is expanding. Very strict professional standards must be met to begin keeping koalas.

  • Budapest To Host 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships

    • 12 Mar 2015 8:02 AM

    Budapest is to host the 2017 FINA World Championships, which will be the biggest international event so far in the history of Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced at a press conference on Wednesday. He was speaking after signing an agreement on this with the Executive Director of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Cornel Marculescu.