Two things that make Budapest a destination with a difference are the coffee houses and the thermal baths. However, though the inventi...

Published in 'Wine 'n' Dine - Edited by Lucy Mallows, The Budapest Sun May 11-17 2000 At the beginning of the 20th centu...

European literature of the 19th century was crammed with sanitariums. The lovelorn heroes of Turgenev’s and Lermontov’s novels were f...

The poetry of Attila József is said to be the most beautiful in the Hungarian language and has reached the hearts and minds of many peopl...

Budapest's Bird Man of Deák tér By Lucy Mallows First published in The Budapest Sun, October 16, 1997 “Louder, Louder”, orders Pisti Bác...

The spring health regime is not complete without a spring wardrobe. Having decided to take up jogging, tennis, healthy eating and Tai Chi, I...

“The Genius of Escape who will Startle and Amaze!” On 24 March 2011, Budapest could have celebrated the 137th anniversary of the birth of on...

Walking through the rooms in the apartment where Miksa Róth once lived is a strange experience, as the man who spent his life making stunnin...

KISS TEL AVIV Pozsonyi út cover story (first published in 1998) By Lucy Mallows Pozsonyi út – or ‘Bratislava Street’ to give it its vaguely ...

In this age of great cinematic ideas but scarce financial backing, Hungarian film makers often look back with wistful nostalgia to the 1940s...

©LRMallowsBpAug2009 Dob utca begins at Károly körút and runs up to Rottenbiller utca along the length of the long narrow seventh district of...