There are so many thermal baths to visit in Budapest but Rudas was high on my to-do list for one important reason: it has a rooftop hot tub with city views. Even better, at weekends it does night baths. A night bath with views of the city lights sounded like everything I could want! Iceland’s … More A night bath at Rudas
Just north of Budapest’s spectacular neo-Gothic Parliament is a tree-covered lozenge-shaped island in the middle of the Danube, where locals and tourists alike go to escape the hustle and bustle of the city without actually leaving the city. Yes, that’s not entirely different to my last post about escaping the city by going to Városliget … More How to spend a day on Margaret Island, Budapest
There’s a lot going on in the centre of Budapest and along the banks of the Danube but perhaps you haven’t realised there’s also a lot going on in a much greener quieter part of the city, the huge Városliget, Budapest’s City Park. Start by taking metro line 1 northbound to Hősök tere, Heroes Square. … More How to spend a day in Városliget, Budapest’s City Park
Having wandered around Budapest for a few days, I very suddenly realised that for the average tourist, there’s very little here to say “you’re in Hungary”. Budapest is a bubble in its own right. It’s where stag parties go for beer bikes and to make a racket in the big outdoor thermal baths, where middle … More The House of Terror, Budapest
This first thing is a bonus fact: the reason Budapest has so many thermal baths is only in part due to around a hundred atural mineral-rich hot springs. The main reason is that during the 150-ish years Budapest – or rather Buda, the city on the west bank of the Danube – was under occupation … More 8 things you need to know about Budapest thermal baths
Last week I went to Budapest and I think the best post to start with is what to do in Budapest by a local. I’m not the local but I work with someone who is not just Hungarian but born and bred in Budapest. Before I went, we sat down together and he went through … More The best things to do in Budapest – by a local
“We’re going to Italy!” we said. “OK,” our parents said. Not “No, you’re not, you’re fourteen years old,” – but we were. I was fourteen and my best friend Catherine was also fourteen and the plan we’d hatched was to fly to Italy, just the two of us, to join a raptor protection camp populated … More Two schoolchildren go unsupervised to Italy to spend a week with strangers
Perhaps this should be a post about all the cosy things you can do in autumn in London – kicking red-gold leaves, PSLs in old-fashioned pubs with open fires, where to buy brown and orange knitwear or hand-made candles… but that’s not what autumn in the UK looks like. Autumn in London is grey and … More 3 days in London in October
In part 1, I told you what the Rebel Badge Club is and what Rebel Summer Camp is all about so if you don’t know, you can go and read that. In the meantime, I’m jumping straight into part 2, Sunday and Monday. Greta 2’s first scheduled activity at 9.30am was board games. I’m not … More Rebel Summer Camp part 2: Sunday and Monday
Let’s talk about the other big exciting thing I did this summer: I went to Rebel Summer Camp 2024! I didn’t go last year; it was a lot of money and I had doubts about whether a single person can put on an event of that scale. For context, it’s about the same price as … More Rebel Summer Camp part 1: Friday and Saturday
I Am A Polar Bear 