Heading to Lake Balaton from Budapest
Lake Balaton is one of the most popular attractions for all those who visit Hungary. This outstanding natural destination should not to be missed during your stay in Budapest. Located in Transdanubia, Lake Balaton is one of the meeting points of local and international travelers. Also known as the “Hungarian Sea”, Lake Balaton is the largest lake in central Europe. After the First World War, the lake became the main holiday resort for Hungarians. This lake not only impresses with its large size but also by the diversity of activities that can be performed on it and around it. In addition to boating and sailing in its waters, activities such as horseback riding, golf, swimming and other outdoor activities are possible. Near the lake, you will find sandy beaches very suitable for relaxing, and sunbathing. Usually during the summer, the waters of Lake Balaton are warm during the night; they are even warmer than the breeze circulating in the area. With a beautiful sunset and bright nature around the Balaton, you will never fail in enjoying a perfect romantic night. On the northern part of the lake you will see beautiful mountains, which will complete a simply unforgettable landscape.
As you might imagine, the most popular months to visit this beautiful lake are between June and August, but don’t let this fact stop you from visiting this natural beauty because, despite being a popular destination, remains as a place of tranquility and recreation for all who visit. To get to Lake Balaton from Budapest, you can take a train from the city center or you can even get there by bus. Prices in both cases are extremely reasonable. We recommend you take the train to the north of the lake, which is the closest to Budapest; the journey will take from two an a half hours to four hours. To sum up, traveling by train is your best option, because of the beautiful and diverse landscapes that you will be able to see on the way to this amazing lake. The railway system in Hungary operates quite effectively throughout the year. You will generally find cabins or second-class seats, which are the most desirable in terms of price. If you decide to go first class the price doubles of course. You can take these trains from stations: Budapest Déli and Budapest Keleti. There are discounts for students and families. Preferably, buy your train ticket in cash. For more information about tourism in Budapest and Hungary, visit this website: http://www.budapest.com/
Alexa Ray
Get apartments in Budapest and discover the magic of Lake Balaton. Its location, climate and nature, make it an essential destination for your trip to Hungary. Budapest also offers you the best cultural and artistic activities during the summer.
Eurogames 2012 in Budapest
Like many other scenarios of our culture, men have always had a privileged place in various sports categories. Perhaps because of the origin of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, where men were always the dominant gender in all the competitions. Of course, women today have also a significant presence in all branches of sport, as a result of the twentieth century advances in terms of rights and equality for all individuals.
Today, women play sports, which was once considered only for men, such as football, basketball, boxing, wrestling, among many others. Even though this is already common in our culture, there are always conflicting comments or rejection about womens sports. Thus, the struggle for equal rights, for people of different genders is still present, even in sports, against ignorance, discrimination and lack of mind-openness by the dominant gender.
Throughout this struggle of genres, EuroGames are presented as an important alternative for the LGBT community. If youve never heard of the EuroGames, they are the European sport competitions for gays and lesbians. This important event, besides being a high-quality choice for sports fans in different disciplines, also aims to combat discrimination based on sexual preference and encourage the integration of all genres during sports events.
So EuroGames seeks to give a new option for those LGBT athletes who have been marginalized because of their sexual preferences, make them feel pleased and even and even encourage them to “come out” during a sports celebration that enriches fraternal and enthusiastic relations. The Eurogames are open to all who want to participate, regardless of gender, age, race or sexual preference. In recent editions of EuroGames, athletes from Europe and the world have participated. This year, this important event will be held in the beautiful city of Budapest, from June 27th to the 1st of July , another reason to visit this important city during the summer.
Budapest is a city full of traditions and yet modern, with beautiful architecture that will captivate you as you walk its streets and avenues. If you are looking for some excitement during the trip, the nightlife in Budapest will guarantee it. Restaurants, bars and gay-friendly clubs await you just steps from the Mystic River Danube. Museums, galleries, boutiques refined and beautiful green areas, make Budapest one of the best places to unwind and enjoy your vacations.
The EuroGames also await you, do not hesitate and come to Budapest this summer. For more information about the EuroGames, visit the following website: http://www.eurogamesbudapest.hu/
Alexa Ray
Get apartments in Budapest and enjoy the EuroGames 2012. Budapest is a gay friendly city full of tourist attractions and history. Don’t miss the opportunity to discover the fascinating capital of Hungary during the summer. Lots of surprises await you.
Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest
Theater had a realistic slope for many years. It was not until the late nineteenth century when it started to appear a change in this trend, mainly due to the various artistic vanguards and the advent of modernity. So, thanks to advances in visual media through symbolism and abstraction, theater took a step to higher levels of representation, staging and proposals. Today, contemporary drama uses a variety of new resources ranging from video, installation and increasingly minimal and conceptual staging, in which new records interact with aesthetic, political, current and controversial stories.
Perhaps the greatest example of total contemporary theater is the King Ubu by Alfred Jarry, a piece with multiple variations and recurring themes, works both the in stage and the subject matter from a political irony and humor truly amazing for its time. Jarry was a visionary, and as such, a precursor of Dadaism and other “isms” of the time. The curious thing about a piece like King Ubu, is that besides its high sarcasm, questioning the political environment of its time, anarchic and volatile capacity, is structured from the meaning and quite complex language games, in which the reader or anyone who witnesses the piece, simply get carried away by logic staged games. In this work, too, shedding is minimal nature of the staging of contemporary art.
Antonin Artaud took a step forward in creating theater. With his theories on the “Theatre of Cruelty,” Artaud not only proposes new means even more abstract and metaphysical included in the staging. It was after his explorations in Mexico with peyote in the Tarahumara tribes Theatre Artaud understood as a profound exploration of the unconscious, which also reveals a ritualistic nature scene on the set. So Artaud makes plays in their colors appear as substances, or occurrences that increased the volume on stage. What encourages Artaud is not stable look over the world, but rather quite the contrary. Artaud reveals the short depth of human spirit and the horror of the void, the inability to be present or be in the unrecognized breath by breath, no more than a pathetic construction of meanings around us, and that reality invention is also empty, no other culture density that gives, and which confuses us, contra lateral and manipulated.
The Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest has over ten years. During this period, there have been more than a hundred international performances in the festival, which each year continues to cause interest at the Hungarian public as well as internationally. The festival is a very interesting space in which new proposals for theater and performance converse, mingle, and generate new creations. For more information, visit the following website: http://dramafestival.hu/
Alexa Ray
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Translated by: Hans
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Jewish Summer Festival in Budapest
Festivals can also be a way to maintain the spirit of an important cultural tradition and keep it alive. Not everything is the market, industry and noise this summer, there are also options, although a bit more classic and traditional, that grant you the opportunity to enjoy with other people a different culture, or maybe yours, and learn a bit more and even enjoy with the family.
Thats how, the Jewish Summer Festival has been taking place in Budapest since 1998 thanks to the organization of the Cultural Centre of Jewish Tourism which is in the city. The centre of all festivities is no less than the Synagogue on Dohany Street, possibly the biggest and most spectacular synagogue in Europe. The synagogue isnt just one of the most beautiful places to visit in Budapest but also an ancestral symbol of Jewish culture in the city. Much before they began to organize the festival, concerts already took place in this synagogue. However, it wasnt until they had the initiative of this festival that the synagogue became a true concert hall. As part of the organization of the festival, one has to highlight that in 2006 they inaugurated the synagogue on Rumbach Sebestyen street to the public, built by the Viennese architect Otto Wagner, and therefore attracting even more visitors and public in general.
At the festival, Jewish culture is represented by different performances, concerts, exhibitions, open air programmes for the younger ones, crafts, book market and other artistic forms. As the centre of all events, the musical genre Klezmer is put forward. Klezmer is a genre that comes from the Jewish-Hebrew tradition from Eastern Europe. This style is played by professional musicians called klezmorim. The genre consists especially in dance and instrumental pieces for weddings and other celebrations. Although the genre has its origins in Eastern Europe, this style in particular has been developed more and was made popular in the United States during the Yiddish Jews immigrations between 1880 and 1924. However, little is known about the true origins of this folkloric music which is so unique and cheerful.
With the years, the festival hasnt stopped growing and its still expanding. This years programme has renown international artists. Budapest is, undoubtedly, the best place for this type of festival. Its streets never cease to have an aura of light and charm during the summer. The walks in Budapest always become infinite and the options to have fun never end. This Jewish Summer Festival is just another occasion for which the city is visited by many more tourists, and not just Jewish ones. With every year that goes by, the city keeps becoming more and more cosmopolitan, without losing its traditional and romantic style. Maybe thats why this festival is so welcome here. For more information and programmes of this event, you can visit the festivals webpage and there you can also find information on tickets, artists and other activities.
http://www.zsidonyarifesztival.hu/
Alexa Ray
The best thing is to get apartments in Budapest and not miss out on the chance to be part of one of the most interesting festivals this summer. You can also meet beautiful people everywhere. Summer in Budapest is like a dream.
Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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