Budapest, the capital of Hungary is a city with a population of 2 million which definitely means there are a lot to see and do there. Most tourists however, come only for 3-4 days, which is just enough to see the main sights of Budapest.

Hungary has recently become a country of festivals. Hundreds of them are organised year by year in a lot of topics, but practically in two categories: cultural and gastronomy festivals (or the two mixed). Many of the cultural fests offer a great opportunity to get involved with a branch of arts or music either you are an expert or a “beginner”. Some of them even targeted a wide audience, providing a great variety of programmes (concerts, theatrical shows, exhibitions, readers’ meetings, etc) of high quality, using a huge budget.

February is the shortest month of the year, and yet, it often seems that it would never last. The feasts of December are over by now, you have long forgotten about your New Year’s wows, the snow that remained on the sides of the streets is dirty and hard, it has nothing to do with the miraculous soft first snowdrops of December. You are longing for spring, and it even shows up sometimes: in the afternoon sunshine that touches the Danube and clears away the fog from above the Castle, in the smell of the soil in the City Park that has started to melt, in the first sunrays of the early mornings while travelling on the yellow tram to work, when you realise it’s not dark any more…