If you couldnt be in Budapest yesterday (August 20), hopefully this video will give you a little feeling of what the city of Budapest was like. The fireworks looked magnificent, the Red Bull Air Race was won by an Austrian an more than 1,4 million people were out in the streets of Budapest.
Enjoy the video! Fore more pictures, check out the Budapest Slideshow
The 20th of August is the nameday of Stephen (Istvan) in Hungary, and since Stephen was the name of the first king of Hungary who later was made a Saint, it is a day of great celebration. During the daytime all visitors can enjoy the sounds and the sight of the Red Bull Air Race, where the leading competitors from the world come together for a race in Budapest. During the race the flights make super maneuvers in the air, and they also fly under the Chain Bridge.
In the evening from 9pm to 9.30pm there will be great fireworks, so be by the Danube, between the Liberty Bridge and the Chain Bridge in that period, and you will be able to enjoy great fireworks!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 we wrote our free guided tours, and since then we have been arranging several free guided tours in Budapest. Several people are scared, because they think that everything free is bad, but in this occasion it is not. It is a sign of quality! We are so sure you will like the trip, that after a great trip you will gladly tip your guide in a great way. If you are not satisfied, you dont give anything at all.
Our guides speak fluent english, and we are sure that you will learn a lot from a trip with us. You will also get lots of knowledge about the city, which will improve the quality of your stay!
Contact us today for more information!
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28. October, 8.00pm in Budapest Queen and Paul Rogers will enter the stage in Budapest Sportarena. The “Rock The Cosmos” tour which will visit several big cities across the world will come to Budapest Thursday 28th of October. If you are interested in tickets, go to Ticketpro (unfortunately most information only exists in English).
Below you can see the official press release:
With a new album in the pipeline – the first new studio album to carry the Queen name since the Freddie Mercury sessions – Queen is heading back on the road for a four-month tour, once again in the company of musician/singer/songwriter Paul Rodgers who joined the band for the highly successful 2005/2006 world tour, the European leg of which ended with the band’s spectacular London Hyde Park open air concert before going on to play the US and Japan.
In all, the band’s tour was attended by more than a million people.
Together Brian May, Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers have recorded their first album’s worth of material, jointly written and produced. With the title yet to be disclosed, the album is being readied for release September 1, two weeks ahead of the start of the tour.
The Queen + Paul Rodgers 28-date arena tour will take in 14 countries in just seven weeks, and take the band to Northern Eurasia, Central and Southern Europe, and the UK, and is expected to wind up at the end of the year with the band’s highly anticipated return to South America, the setting of some of its most historic tours in the early 80’s.
Queen’s historic Latin America dates set new world records for the numbers of the audiences it attracted. At the 1985 Rock in Rio concert the band played to an unheard of audience of 300,000 and was watched on television by nearly 200 million people throughout the South American continent.
The 2008 tour kicks off mid-September in Russia with two dates at Moscow’s SCO Olympic Arena, moves on into Poland for a massive free concert at the historic Gdansk Shipyard, and then follows a path through Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands before arriving in the UK early October for 6 dates including London’s 02 Arena on October 13.
The UK dates see the band additionally play Nottingham, Glasgow, Cardiff and Birmingham with a final UK date at Liverpool Arena on October 18 before continuing on to Spain, Hungary, Serbia, Czech Republic and Austria for seven further dates.
Tracks on the new Queen + Paul Rodgers album will include Say It’s Not True, previously released at the end of last year by Queen + Paul Rodgers as a special World Aids Day download for Nelson Mandela’s 46664 HIV AIDS charity, plus a ‘first’ for a Queen album – a cover version. The remaining tracks are all newly written by May, Taylor and Rodgers during the late 2007/early 2008 recording sessions.
One of these tracks, C-lebrity, will receive a sneak preview when the band make a by-demand return to the UK’s ITV Al Murray’s Happy Hour for the final show on April 4.
Queen’s last studio album release was “Made In Heaven” released in November 1995 containing the last recordings with Freddie. The album became the band’s biggest selling studio album, with world sales in excess of 20 million.
Queen’s Greatest Hits 1 album has achieved the distinction of being the UK’s biggest selling album of all time, having sold a staggering 5,407,587 copies in Britain alone (source: VH1/The Official UK Charts Company. November 2006).
Paul Rodgers’ voice is one of rock’s platinum assets and as a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter as front man of Free and Bad Company and as a solo artist he has written, produced and recorded some of radios biggest hits.
Between them, Queen and Paul Rodgers have released more than 50 albums during their long careers and sold in excess of a staggering 300 million records.
Good news for the Hungarian fans, they can finally see their favourite singer at home: James Blunt is giving a concert on 25 October 2008 in the Budapest Sport Arena.
There aren’t many performers like him; he became a superstar almost overnight but James Blunt managed to stay a man without striking a star attitude.
He was born with the name James Hillier Blount in Tidworth, England into an upper middle-class family in 1974. When he was three, his mother taught him how to play the flute, at the age of five he started playing the violin and when he reached the age of seven, he got his first piano teacher. Since his father served at the British Air Force, the family had to move house every two years, so by the age of seven James attended a boarding school, seeing his parents only in the school holidays. He bought his first guitar at the age of fourteen, and he started to write songs. He attended Bristol University, where he wrote his thesis on a Sociology subject. The debut album of James Blunt was released in October 2004, and although the first two singles were relatively successful, the real breakthrough was the third single, the song “You’re Beautiful”. It got released as a maxi as well, and it led the English chart lists for 10 weeks. It became a No. 1 in 18 other countries, amongst them the USA. The album sold 11 million copies and won every possible award. Blunt has given more than 300 concerts covering all continents.
The incredible speed of becoming a superstar and the experiences of this journey give the basis of the lyrics of his second album, “All The Lost Souls”, which was released in autumn 2007. “Going on a concert tour is the best fun anybody can have. The best invention anybody has ever thought of.”
Source: Budapestinfo
For tickets, go to ticketpro
Last week we had the joy of joining some of our guests to the Sir Lancelot restaurant in Budapest. It is a restaurant that will give you food and an experience you will not easily forget. Especially in the evening time (as it was when we were there) we could enjoy some small theatrical pieces and delicious food, in real medieval style.
The food is not typical Hungarian, but it is almost barbaric as everyone just takes what they want to eat from a big plate, and place it on their own small plate. But, that is the fun with the place, and we can definitely recommend this place to our visitors. The prices are higher than many other restaurants, but still not to expensive, so be sure to visit this place.
We recommend you to book a table beforehand at Sir Lancelot, so just send us an email with your name and a telephone number, and we will do it for you and your company!
A real Sir Lancelot Mug – and a tasty piece of meatA plate full of tasty foodHeikki Kovalainen won the Formula 1 Budapest in 2008. He is a teammember of Lewis Hamilton who got a defect at his car, and only managed to end up at a fifth place because of that.
The Formula 1 season goes on, but for those who wants to see more Formula 1 in Budapest, they still have to wait another year!
Updated page with information on how to get to Hungaroring can be found here.
The Formula 1 (F1) in Budapest is closing up and people are slowly arriving to Budapest in these days. Several people are curious in that occasion how to get to the Hungaroring with public transportation. Below you will find quoted the information to be found at the official Formula One Grand Prix Hungary 2008 page:
How do I get to the circuit by car?
The racetrack is about 22 km from the center of Budapest. Leaving Budapest, follow the M3 highway. Here you can download a map of how to get there.
How do I get to the circuit by public transportation?
With the free shuttle bus:
A shuttle bus leaves for the circuit from the bus station on the Pest side of the Árpád Bridge.
The service is free of charge for all passengers presenting a vaild ticket for the Formula One.
Point of departure at Árpád bridge Pest side, point of arrival, Mogyoród church square.
Point of departures:
Friday
Árpád bridge: from 07.30 till 11.00 every 30 minutes
Mogyoród church square: from 16.00 till 19.00 every 30 minutes
Saturday
Árpád bridge: from 07.30 till 11.00 every 15 minutes
Mogyoród church square: from 16.00 till 19.00 every 15 minutes
Sunday
Árpád bridge: from 07.30 till 12.00 every 15 minutes
Mogyoród church square: from 15.30 till 17.00 every 15 minutes
By train:
Train service also exists. The train (called the Gödöllõi HÉV) leaves the Örs Vezér tér station every half an hour beginning at 4:30 a.m., stopping at the temporary train station named “Hungaroring”. Please find the exact timetable at www.bkv.hu. The train is not free of charge, costing approx. HUF 430,00 for a one way ticket. (1€ = approx. HUF 230)
As Paul Anka enters into his 50th year, he is touring around and he will drop by Budapest Tuesday the 5th of August, 19.30. The Paul Anka concert will be held in the Budapest Sportarena, by the Stadionok metrostation (red line).
For tickets for the Paul Anka concert go to eventim.hu.
If Paul Anka is to old fashioned for you, maybe you should read more about the Sziget Festival or the Coldplay concert (the Viva La Vida tour), that will be held in Budapest 23. September.
Just a few hours after we wrote the article yesterday about the bomb that was found in the ninth district of Budapest, the people could start returning to their homes. The bomb with a weight of 2 tonns was safely disarmed. It turned out during the process that it did not have any trigger from which it could blow up. The theories in Budapest today say that they might have disarmed it straight after the Second World War, but after doing so, they just left it in the ground.
This means that everything is back in order today, the traffic is going as normal and everyone has returned to their homes.
If you are interested in more about the history of Budapest and Hungary we recommend our little introuction that can be found here.
