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E-Ticket System for the Public Transport

Public Transport Tiecket Budapest It will be over with the little orange strips called “Vonaljegy” that you need to validate in trams, busses and the metro in Budapest soon. Well not too soon but at least starting from 2014 progressively a new so called E-Ticket system will be introduced. Plan is to have it all done by 2014 which is not a tough deadline I would say. The tickets will be step by step replaced with a plastic card which is based on the same technology as PayPass and many people know already from cities like London where the Oyster Card also replaced paper tickets. The first step will be to replace time based tickets such as monthly tickets which allow owners to travel... [Read more...]

Hungarian Worlds 2. Hardest Language

Sziasztok, a poll of lexiophiles.com in 2009 (I know it is long time ago) about “which are the hardest languages to learn in the world” resulted in a number 2 position for Hungary, meaning that Hungarian is the second hardest language to learn. Of course that is always in the eye of the beholder as for Europeans Chinese or Arabic is probably much harder and the other way around. Nevertheless it is very interesting to see that Hungarian is on the list at all since it is a fairly small country and spoken by a few people over the world it is not always in the picture as Chinese or Arabic. Number 1 by the way is Basque and number 3 is Chinese. I myself started learning Hungarian in 2005... [Read more...]

Budapest Cover Photos for Facebook

Facebook has rolled out the Timeline function for all users recently and so they will most probably do for Facebook pages as well by end of February. So we will see the new Timeline all over Facebook soon. One, as I think, cool feature of these changes is the so called cover foto which gives you the opportunity to add one super large image on top of your profile which than makes your profile look something like this: I think that it is a cool way to show your interests or what you like, in my case it is the parliament building by night. therefore I have collected som nice images of Budapest that you can save to your computer and use them as your Cover picture on Facebook. Have fun and show your... [Read more...]

Cost of Living in Budapest

If you are thinking about to move to Budapest for studying or working here you have to face the daily life and costs in Budapest and Hungary. Most people moving here from all over the world come to Hungary because of the job, just think about big companies such as Vodafone, Mercedes or Audi, or the second reason is love. So you come to the country, find an apartment and start your job but there are of course duties that have to be done. From my own experience I can tell you that there are a lot of things that have to be taken care of from paying the bills for gas to shopping your daily supplies. In this article I would like to give an overview about how much do things cost, something like the... [Read more...]

Steve Jobs Statue in Budapest

On Wednesday December 21st the Steve Jobs statue in Budapest got unveiled which is standing in Budapests technology business park called “Graphisoft Park”. For you information, Microsoft Hungary has its office here. The 6 1/2 feet tall bronze statue was commissioned in mid October, right after Steve Jobs death, by the Hungarian Gabor Bojar who is the founder of Graphisoft, a software company that developes software solutions for architects. But why did Bojar commissioned the statue of Jobs? Steve Jobs in the mid 90s stumbled accross Bojars software and was impressed so that he helped him out in bad times and basically saved Graphisoft to exist. Bojars statement was “Apple’s... [Read more...]

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