Over 300 types of brandy, the best Hungarian specialties and great music in a fascinating city: Budapest invites you to spend a week drinking the most famous Hungarian liquor, Palinka, during the fifth annual Palinka Festival, celebrated from May 6th to May 9th.

This celebration of one of the most historically important and famous Hungarian drinks will take place in the centric park Vásrosháza. First mention of palinka was made in the 14th century as “Aqua Vitae Reginae Hungariae”. Most likely, these spirits were used as a remedy for common ailments. Today palinka is a product which bears the label Designation of Origin, which means that following EU regulations only what is produced and bottled in Hungary may use the name palinka. It also must be distilled from 100% fruit, normally prunes, apricots or pears, but also sometimes apples, berries or herbs. There are various main types of palinka with an infinity of variations, including the classic Kisüsti (twice distilled), Érlelt (aged for 6 to 12 months in wooden barrels), Ó (aged for 12 to 14 months), Ágyas, (palinka aged for three months together with the fruit) and Törköly (distilled from grapes),which is used above all as a digestive.

The festival will bring together the best manufacturers of Hungarian palinka, along with small family distilleries who make limited productions of very high quality.

Musical programming every day from 18 h. to 20h features both Hungarian and international groups.

Even if you are not a lover of fine spirits, remember that the Palinka Festival offers much more, excellent Hungarian dishes and afternoons of live music right in the heart of Budapest. The event is a singular opportunity to sink into belly of Hungarian culinary culture, and get to know the traditions which will make your trip to Budapest even more exciting. For the best lodging rent centric apartments in Budapest.

Don’t you have your tickets for the concert? This April, Metallica returns to Europe, and the tour promises to be a monumental event. This legendary Thrash Metal band has sold 100 million albums worldwide. Fans go wild for the dark voice of the singer James Hetfield and the crazy riffs of guitarist Kirk Hammett.

The output of the last album in 2008, Death Magnetic, with it sharp melodies, marked a return to the roots of the 80s, after 15 years of albums with more “mainstream” tones. This was a risky but successful bet, which was liked by both the band´s original fans and those who discovered Metallica in the 90s.

In total, the World Magnetic Tour will feature 19 concerts in Europe. In April, Metallica will perform in Oslo (Norway), Riga (Latvia), Tallinn (Estonia), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Moscow (Russia). In May, in Belfast (Ireland), Budapest (Hungary), Zagreb (Croatia), Lisbon (Portugal) and Lyon (France). And in June in Warsaw (Poland), Zurich (Switzerland) and Prague (Czech Republic).

Hurry! you don’t have too much time.

In just a few weeks, all tickets were sold for the two concerts in Oslo. In Lyon all the tickets were sold out and Vilnius, Lisbon and Budapest will not take too long… So if you want to be one of the lucky ones to attend to this concert better act fast.

And here is the essential question: Where to stay without spending a fortune in a unknown city after a concert? Is there free accommodation? Shall I stay in a hotel with eight people per room? Shall I stay in a camping 50 km from the capital? In a youth hostel crowded with people?

The best option is renting Apartments in Budapest for the Metallica concert at the Puskás Ferenc Stadion on May 14.

Why Budapest?

1 – About 80,000 people are expected in an incredible atmosphere.
2 – Puskás Ferenc Stadion is a very emblematic stadium: Queen gave one of their last concerts here in 1986, and also the legendary Guns’ n Roses in 1992.
3 – Budapest is the ideal European city for a world tour after the dazzling success of the Sziget festival.
4 – The concert will be held on Friday evening, ensuring a weekend in the city.
5 – There are still tickets.
6 – There is an incredible range of fabulous Apartments in Budapest to have the best accommodation at the cheapest price.

First it was Buffy and her ongoing affair with the vampire Angel. Now it’s the Twilight insanity that has teenage girls (and boys) everywhere going crazy for emo blood-suckers. What is it about vampires that does this to people?

We think it’s the oldest motivation in the book: Sex.

Vampire stories have been around since before books. Fire-lit tales spun to haunt the imaginations of children and inflame the desires of adults. In a world where sex is not easy to speak of in plain terms, erotica must find a new path. And the vampire is the perfect outlet.

Let’s look at the classic elements of the vampire story: Our Vampire is usually male (but not always, we’ll get to that soon). Vampire hungers for the flesh of a woman. In modern vampire tales, this is usually a woman who hungers for him too – although we like to call it love, instead of lust. It’s just nicer that way. Vampire is constantly tempted to drink deeply from the throat of the woman he loves, yet must hold back to preserve her purity and innocence. Those big phallic teeth are just itching to penetrate the warm skin of the throat. He is the ultimate undead bad-boy, with a heart of gold. Vampire and beloved are in a constant state of torment – should we, shouldn’t we, yes do it, no I must control myself.

You get the drift.
In the modern Twilight tales, it is the human girl, Bella, who is begging her vampire boyfriend to ‘turn’ her. This is about the only socially acceptable way that a woman can express sexual desire without being labelled… well, slutty.

And it is this that has made the Twilight phenomenon what it is. The actor who plays the vampire character Edward has often said he is amazed at how many times young women have asked him to bite them. Not just asked – begged. Is this really the only way that a young woman can safely say “I’m into you, let’s do it”? It seems so.

The she-vampires are a different story. These are the nymphos of the undead. Bloodthirsty, brutal chicks (who are usually pretty hot) who take what they want with no regard for the feelings of those they attack. Bathing in the blood of virgins to retain eternal youth, leaping on unsuspecting good guys in alleyways (have you noticed they don’t really like the blood of drunks and old people?). She-vampires are often the ones who end up with a stake through the heart, so the moral lesson is something like “don’t get too comfortable with your power, you’re likely to get impaled in the nastiest way.” There’s a euphemism in that for everyone.

And just so you know, Stephanie Meyer (the author of the Twilight series) is a Mormon. No sex before marriage. Or biting either. Still hooked onto the myth? Rent the best Apartments in Budapest, a city close to the birthplace of the vampire legend – Transylvania.

That’s right. Erotic literature is a type of sex you can enjoy sitting comfortably on the couch at home, at work … definitely, from anywhere. To further your ejoyment of this material, one of the world’s best known search engines provides approximately one million web pages to delight the reader with stories of all kinds. In the web page, the erotic stories are divided into dozens of categories, so you can easily find what you are looking for. The truth is that for those who enjoy this type of reading it is a pleasure to navegate through the pages and read a thousand stories… just what you want at this moment.

It’s a kind of reading that is usually a solo pursuit of pleasure. The truth is that I can’t imagine a group of friends gathered around a table doing group readings of erotic stories because of the often orgasmic effect. Just picture it, some guys talking about football while others pleasure themselves, although perhaps, given men´s affinity for group sex, maybe not as strange as you think?

In many stories, the cities are the same, like the characters, stereotypes and citizens. Specifically, I read one some time ago in which a group of students rented an apartment in Budapest. Girls made up the whole group and in this story, the ladies lived different kinds of sex: rape, group sex, zoophilia, consensual relationships, fellatio … it was very, nearly, the perfect erotic story because it contained almost all types of sex. All this experiences were lived in one of the most fascinating cities in Europe. And you, like them, can enjoy one of the apartments in Budapest, perhaps, to live the same experiences that the girls lived in this erotic tale.

However, there are many people who say that these erotic stories are a substitute for the common sex between two people. Substitutes? I don’t think so, perhaps a complement, another type of sex, a way to broaden your sex life and sexual imagination. Because erotic stories can give you the opportunity to immerse yourself in worlds which maybe aren´t so easy to access. Maybe, that’s the reason because the rape is such a popular subject in erotic stories. I imagine that being raped on a South American highway by a fat, dirty and rude trucker wouldn’t be a pleasurable experience, but perhaps people find release imagining things they would neverlike to happen.

There’s a rumor that says that women are complicated… that we don’t help each other… Well, yes, that’s true. I agree with everyone and of course, I’m talking about the sex, too.

Because if it’s difficult to understand us ouside the bedroom, the experience inside the bedroom, the sexual act could be a horrible one. But, everything would be much easier if, before starting the sexual act we are asked one magic question: “Are you vaginal or clitoral?”. Well, you can rephrase this question differently with other, more simple words: “Do you like to be penetrated or no?”

Each to her own

In my opinion, all of this reminds me of the relationships between gays. Because, at the end, you just need to find the perfect mix, I mean, link an active with a passive. And there are women who don’t like to be penetrated, other women couldn’t maintain relationships with someone that didn’t like to penetrate them. It would be perfect to find a compromise: a woman who likes to practice both.

Many women, or their partners, feel that many women don’t normally enjoy a vaginal orgasm. In fact, I was sent to a sex therapist for this reason. But the truth is that it’s possible that a woman doesn’t feel pleasure when she is just being penetrated, and her pleasure arrives when “the other” strokes the lips.

Here the problem isn’t the girl, on the contrary it’s the couple who has difficulties accepting that his penis or other similar devices, don’t cause the desired pleasure. And indeed, there is evidence that men suffer more when their girlfriend has this “problem”

It’s not that bad

Imagine just for a second enjoying life in Budapest, a wonderful city! You are there walking through the magnificent and romantic streets, and there, you sit down in a coffee-shop or a café to take a break. In my opinion, there aren’t any better options to soak up the city. At night, you come back to the rented apartment you booked on Apartments in Budapest, and you and your partner and you and your partner want to indulge in sexual pleasure. To end the day perfectly, you have to know and learn what your partner wants and of course, what you as a couple enjoy together has to be taken into account.

You would be surprised to find out how many women enjoy clitoral orgasms and don’t need and even dislike, the vaginal orgasm. And this is something about ourselves, and it doesn’t concern the partner. You have to let her enjoy whatever she likes, because while you enjoy what you like, do you care if and how she gets an orgasm?

Each year since 1985, one or several European cities are selected as cultural capitals. For this 2010, Pécs (Hungary), Istanbul (Turkey) and Essen (Germany) are the three selected cities; meaning that many events, exhibitions and parades will be held throughout the year. Pécs has up to 2,000 appointments scheduled under the topic of “city without borders.”

The mayor, Zsolt Pava said that Pécs is an exciting city “full of culture and in continuous change”. Pécs is preparing to welcome their historical and cultural heritage, develop their creative talents and dazzle the curious people like you.

With this appointment the city will oxygenate and will be realized as a tourist destination, full of cultural gems. In 2004, when Lille (France) was the capital of culture, a forest of 300  suspended false trees were installed in one of its squares with musical and light effects. It was an amazing urban experience!

They will pay a tribute to outstanding artists such as Marcel Breuer of the Bauhaus German School and to the father of Op Art, Victor Vasarely. Pécs ethnic minorities like the Gypsies, the Croats, the Poles, the Germans, the Serbs, the Greeks, the Bulgarians, the Russians and the Ukrainians also have an important place in this cultural year.

This diversity reflects the most European face of this capital. A Turkish theatre will also be held as well as a dance festival. Thousands of artists come from all backgrounds to appreciate the city as a place of encounters, imagination and fun.

There are expected one million visitors, with 30% foreigners, you can’t miss it! Book your ticket to the Hungarian capital and rent Apartments in Budapest to have a comfortable accommodation.

Sometimes the studies reveal us truly amazing things… But what’s even more amazing is the kind of studies that are being conducted. For example, who thinks of conducting a study about the feminine smell of onions and the masculine smell of cheese? Would it be that there are no more interesting studies to do?

The sweat has been the focus of some Swiss scientists. For their research, they put 24 men and 25 women in a sauna for 15 minutes. They took samples of sweat from their armpits and the conclusion was: women smell like onions or grapes and men smell like cheese.

Why to conduct this study? They try to understand how the bodies smell in both sexes to develop efficient deodorants. It is true that when someone needs a new deodorant, he/she changes it in hope to find the magic one that has it all: covers the odours, the perspiration, that leaves no white spots, that lasts 24 hours, that has a pleasant smell…

But there is a problem: this study may not be valid outside of Switzerland. The scientists explain that with other diet and different genes, the results can be altered. Switzerland will definitely be the most neutral country in the world: it won’t have any smell!

If you think this study is not very interesting, it might be for other people, who gave their bodies to the science and survive thanks to the money they charged for being guinea pigs. You should know that although they seem very Strange studies, they have a very clear objective: the money. It is not just a question of deodorant.

Why don’t you go to a sauna and analyze your own sweat? The Hungarian capital is highly valued for its thermal spas, so do not think twice, organize a trip to Budapest, and for a cheap and comfortable stay, rent Apartments in Budapest.

As winter slowly dies away and some of the first blossoms appear on the trees, it is time to look ahead to the 2010 European Summer Festival Circuit. While many of us make our plans, book our tickets and start checking the line-ups, there is still a warm place in our hearts for the festivals of 2009. One of the biggest, and arguably the best music festival on the European circuit is Sziget, held every August in Budapest, Hungary.

About the Sziget Festival
Sziget is the Hungarian word for island (you pronounce it Ts-igget), so it’s no surprise that the Sziget festival is held on Obudai – Hajógyári Island in the middle of the Danube, and almost in the middle of the city.

For six rocking days and nights (with an extra day thrown in at the beginning for Sziget-goers to arrive, make camp and generally begin getting dusty), this island is a monster of music, with multiple music stages and all genres from mainstream to techno to world music to hip-hop. There are stalls, chill-out areas, and cool extras like Vietnamese Water Puppet shows. No wonder the hippies take their kids, this place is full of forests, places to play and things to do.

Sziget used to begin on Day 1 and end on Day 6, but after noise complaints from their neighbours, festival organisers promised to cut it down to just five days. Did this wreck the fan’s experience? No way. Now, the festival ends on Day 5 but starts on Day Zero. Sneaky!

Past performers at Sziget
Sziget is known for its fat line-ups. 2008 saw Iron Maiden, R.E.M. Babyshambles, Sex Pistols, Jamiroquai, Anti-Flag, Flogging Molly, Alanis Morissette, The Killers, The Kooks, Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs, and Pendulum take the stages. The nineties Sziget festivals boasted everyone from Iggy Pop and David Bowie to Sonic Youth, Oasis, Suzanne Vega, Lou Reed and the Foo Fighters. The early noughties saw Sziget play host to The Prodigy (who returned in 2009 – those boys LOVE their festivals), Noir Desir, Faithless, Freestylers, Placebo, Muse, The Cure, Massive Attack, Basement Jaxx and on and on and on and on.

The 2009 Sziget Experience
The Prodigy were back, and so was Placebo. Although the 2009 European Festival Circuit was a little more lacklustre than other years, Sziget rocked as hard, if not harder than it ever had. Crowd-pleaser Lily Allen gave a good performance, despite the rumours that she was becoming disillusioned by her fame and the music industry in general. Other highlights were – as always – Fatboy Slim, Snow Patrol (giving emo love to all the weepers in the crowd) and The Ting Tings, whose upbeat catchy tunes ricocheted off the main stage.

To Camp or Not to Camp
A ticket to camp at Sziget is only a little more expensive than a regular entry, and can save a lot of drunken stumbles back to the city at night. Although the festival never really closes at night, it does quieten down after 11pm when the main stage closes, so it is possible to get some sleep in a tent. The downside is the dust (it’s EVERYWHERE thanks to a hot summer and 400,000 pairs of feet stomping all over the island) and the smell of the port-a-potties by the end of Day 3. Although camping is a great party atmosphere, there are plenty of festival-goers who prefer to stay in the nearby Sziget hostel, or treat themselves to hotel rooms and apartments in Budapest. Sometimes a shower seems way more attractive than a tent.

We all know the feeling, when suddenly the butterflies in the stomach are gone, your stomach churns and you fall from cloud number nine without a parachute. No matter for what reason or motives, separations from your beloved partner can be the worst thing ever. Lovesickness, heartache, fears and company can really make your life very difficult. However, after a period of crying and hurt, little by little you get back to reality. And then, some day you run into your ex and there is still this special feeling in the air. Of course, it’s very hard to resist these good vibrations: Sex with the ex – sex with no strings attached.

These days this little trip back to the past isn’t anything new. According to the latest surveys, more than 94% of men claim to flirt with the ex-girlfriend and would like to have sex with her. Almost 22% of women confess to have already had sex with the ex. All surveyed persons confirmed that they dream of spending intimate hours with their ex partner. How so? Well, it isn’t strange to long for having sex with a person who you know 100%. In the most of the cases, sex with the ex is often better than with some unknown person during a one-night stand. We already know the erogenous zones, and what the other person likes, hence you’re just a perfect team in bed.

And what’s the best thing about all this? Well, when the cards are on the table as it were, and it’s really just about sex, then a relaxed orgasm without any sense of duty will be guaranteed. All the stress of our everyday life, relationship problems, petty jealousy, conflicts and all those things which made your relation so hard, have finally disappeared. Now, it’s the pure passion and the body of the partner what is at the centre of attention. It may sound a little bit cold and macabre, but be honest: Having unrestrained sex without thinking of an “afterwards” can be really liberating!

However, the most important aspect of this little voyage into the past is that both partners know that it is just about sex. As soon as feelings become involved and one of them is still in love with the other, disaster will strike again. Communication is the be-all and end-all: A real talking-to, the cold truth and then let’s go to bed, honey.

But perhaps a separation isn’t necessary and you can solve the little crisis with your partner. A vacation far away from everyday life could be the perfect solution. What about a fantastic holiday in the most enchanting city of Hungary? Rent the comfortable and cheap apartments in Budapest and rock your relationship!

Due to the many scientific investigations, studies, analyses and experiments carried out through history, nowadays we have the possibility to live in a modern and technologically advanced society. The interesting results weren’t only illuminating, but as well just completely crazy. Yes, you heard it right. Let’s leave the formal language apart and be honest: most of the scientists can be very freaky! You don’t believe me? Well, just continue reading, please!

Let’s start with a bit of a macabre experiment (well, basically all of them are quite delicate and not so political correct). In 1924 the doctoral candidate Carney Landis originally wanted to investigate facial expressions of humans, but he used really dramatic methods. After using different methods that got stronger and stronger, starting with chilling jazz music, firecrackers exploding at a distance of 2 metres away to the touching of strange scary things in the darkness, the test persons had to then deal the following situation. A real live mouse was placed in front of them along with a sharp knife. They were then ordered to cut the mouse’s head off! Now, you probably have the same expressions on your face as the test persons had: FRIGHT, HORROR, NAUSEA, SERIOUSNESS, and DESPERATION. Indeed, 15 of the 20 test persons beheaded the poor mice and with this experiment the scientist laid the foundations for the interesting science of obedience. What’s up, still have goose-pimples?

But there are experiments even more macabre. Robert E. Cornish, scientist of the Berkeley University wanted to imitate God in the year 1932 and tried to raise up people from the dead. With this aim, he put the corpse on a kind of seesaw and see-sawed it up and down to stimulate the blood circulation. Well, of course, it isn’t necessary to have passed your doctorate for knowing that this experiment wasn’t successful. But at least there was a horror movie of it made, “Life Returns”, – you can’t get trashier than that!

Talking about resurrections, we can go ahead with another strange experiment: three people called Jesus met in a psychiatric clinic. In 1959 the psychologist Milton Rokeach organized a meeting with three persons that thought they were the Christ for analysing what would happen in such a situation. Well, the results were very simple: one Jesus didn’t believe anything of the other Jesus, and the third Jesus just thought why the hell did he have to talk with those two strange psychopaths. It even came to a fight and the experiment had to be interrupted for safety reasons.

The list of freaky scientific experiments seems to be infinite: investigations about how it feels to hang yourself to the brain control of bulls and the experiments of the sleep-wake rhythm in a little cave isolated from the outside world. Well if the test persons are willing to participate in such experiments, it’s their choice.

Do you want to carry out your own personal experiment? What about an experiment about relaxation and interior balance? No problem, you only have to travel to the Hungarian capital and enjoy the most beautiful spa city in Europe. Rent the best apartments in Budapest and spend incredible days in some cheap and comfortable accommodation.