Last Saturday Ferihegy Airport had to be closed down for some hours due to heavy snow and bad weather in Budapest. Starting from this evening heavy snow and cold weather is again expected in Budapest and all of Hungary, so it might be that things will be delayed tomorrow. The weather is expected to last until Sunday evening.
In addition there will probably be lots of snow everywhere, so tomorrow might be a day to spend in a day spa or somewhere else.
Enjoy life and enjoy Budapest in any case!
Budapest Blues Festival is coming up in Budapest and it will be arranged in the Petőfi Csarnok February 27th. The event will start around 16.00 and on the artist list you can find:
Budapest Blues Festival 2010
Petőfi Csarnok
February 27, 16.00
Tickets: WorldTicketShop
If you would like to see masterpieces from French painters painted between the middle of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century, you better head towards the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest between January 28 and April 25. During that period there will be a temporary exhibition there presenting more than 50 paintings from the given period. All the paintings are borrowed from the Puskin Museum in Moscow for this exhibition.
Among the paintings you can see masterpieces made by Courbet, Corot, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso.
From Degas to Picsso
Museum of Fine Arts
January 28 – April 25, 2010
And then the public transportation strike in Budapest was over, for this time. The buses are polluting the city again, the trams are following their normal schedules and the people of Budapest can easier get to their jobs than last week. Well, if the buses are able to drive. It has been snowing and it is quite cold, so often that causes great problems for the drivers and the buses!
At least it is over! So that was it for this time. There is a small strike on the Ferihegy Airport as well, but that is not expected to cause any further delays!
Bobby McFerrin is a very popular jazz musician and singer. He has performed together with major celebrities around the world, and he is the man behind the famous “Don’t worry, be happy” song which ruled the hit lists in the 80s. Now he is coming to Budapest where he will perform in the SYMA Hall. The concert will be arranged August 22nd, and it starts at 20.00.
Bobby McFerrin Budapest
SYMA Hall
August 22nd, 2010 – 20:00
Tickets: WorldTicketSHop
The public transportation strike which we have written about several times already is still going strong and most buses, trams and trolley buses in the capital of Hungary are still standing still. Some of them are going and you can read more about that in our former post.
I guess the taxi companies enjoy the strike as they probably have much more to do than under normal circumstances, but it would be nice if they could finish this strike within shortly.
One addition to the strike is the fact that MAV (train company) has joined into the strike and especially in the early morning many trains stand still and do not transport passengers!
Paul Anka performed in Budapest 5th of August 2009, and I guess he most have felt good, because in 2010 he is coming back to Hungary again. He will perform in the Budapest Sportarena this time as well and the concert will be arranged 3rd of June, starting at 20.00.
For Paul Anka 2009/2010 will be good years, especially since Paul Anka will earn loads of money, as he wrote “This is it”, the latest Michael Jackson song!
Paul Anka Budapest
Budapest Sportarena
June 3rd, 2010 – 20.00
Tickets: WorldTicketSHop
It is winter in Budapest and the buses of the local transportation company, BKV, is having a hard time. But not only the buses, but the drivers and other workers are not at all satisfied, and the rumours are even spreading that some drivers just leave their buses in so called wildcat strikes.
In addition a big strike has been announced on January 12, and time will show it it will be a heavy strike or not (I have heard that even if it is a strike the metros will probably be running and so on)!
The Dohányi Utcai synagogue in Budapest is the second largest in the world and it attracts hundred thousands of visitors every year. I just added some pictures of the synagogue by night for our visitors to enjoy, but I also did so to answer a question I received during a guided tour half a year ago. The tourists asked me what the “tablets” above the entrance of the synagogue are. I was not sure, but I guessed that they were some “model” of the Ten Commandments or something similar.
As I walked by and made these photos not long ago I zoomed in with my camera and made a picture. As I came home I checked the pictures and compared them with my Hebrew Bible. The answer; on the tables you can find parts of the Ten Commandments. The first and the third commandment are very long, so you can not find them completely, but commandments such as “You shall not kill” , “You shall not commit adultery” and “You shall not steal” can be found in its complete beauty!
Synagoue by night pictures
Did you know that it is easy and cheap to travel from Budapest to big cities in other countries? Thanks to the Hungarian bus company Orangeways there are several opportunities daily to travel to these cities and booking can be done easily online. The buses leave from Nepliget in Budapest (blue metro line) and the buses drives you safely to all the cities mentioned in the topic; Vienna, Bratislava, Prague and Krakow.
They have other destinations as well, but these are just examples. So, if you are planning to travel, why not come to Budapest and use this as a center for travelling on to other cities and nations.
Information about Vienna, Prague, Krakow and Bratislava.
Orangeways
