Budapest Blog

Café New York (New York kávéház) is in the recently renovated opulent five-star hotel, in the New York Palace, in a busy part of Budapest (easily reached by the red line metro at Blaha tér, or the trams 4 and 6).
It was a historical venue where the big names of Hungarian literature and movie [...]

Billy Collins, a popular award-winning American poet (teaching in Bronx, and poet laureate) has dedicated an enchanting poem to Budapest, or rather, an imaginary stay in Budapest, or elsewhere – travelling in mind.
Here’s the poem on video and the ‘lyrics’

My pen moves along the page like the snout of a strange animal, shaped like a [...]