When spring blooming is over at lower elevations, it starts in the high mountains. June and July are usually the peak of wildflower blooming in the Alps, and we brought you some pretty flowers from there, because… well, I guess I like my wildflower pictures, and I grab every occasion to show them to anyone…
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They say Columbus called Tenerife the island of eternal spring. With its pleasantly warm, but not too hot weather all year, with some wind and veil clouds often in the sky, it definitely is. Moreover, we actually visited it in March and April, so we could enjoy wonderful spring wildflowers wherever we went. On the…
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We took another trip in mid-November and caught the last days to enjoy the autumn colors in the forest of Zemplén Mountains before all the leaves fell (and before all the hotels got closed to tourists in Hungary). We only spent a weekend there, and we’ll surely go back when we can take trips again.…
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It’s not easy for us to love fall. Our favorite season is summer, followed closely by late spring. Fall is complicated. It can be beautiful, but sad. But with time, we learned to appreciate that we live in a country with four seasons. We love the fall foliage in Hungary. Our mountains are of medium…
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This autumn we ventured to a region we’ve never been before but we’ve been planning to visit for a while: Kőszeg Mountains. This is a protected area located partly in Vas County in Hungary, and partly in Burgenland in Austria. The area in Hungary is part of Őrség National Park and offers lovely forest trails,…
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I invite you for a spring walk in Hungary. A virtual one. Do you hate to hear that? Me, too. I like feeling the wind on my face and smelling the flowers. Smelling the sunshine, too. (You can smell sunshine just like you can smell snow, don’t you think? I do.) But we don’t have…
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“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” says Shelley, and this is our comfort on grey winter days. But now they’re over, and we can enjoy the colorful parade of blooming flowers! Spring is maybe the happiest season of all. Maybe not this year. But let us bring some joy and hope to your…
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“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.” Autumn awakens contradictory feelings in us. It’s nostalgic. There’s always some sadness in its beauty. It’s colorful, gold, orange, red and brown, but then it becomes bare and grey. We brought you feelings and moods from autumn in this photo essay. There’s the tranquility…
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If we’d like to get away from the crowd and noise of Budapest, we go for a hike in Buda Hills. While the city is lively and magnificent, Buda Hills are peaceful and fresh. And green – uhm, actually yellow, orange and brown this time of the year. Pilis Mountains are not much further and…
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