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Things To See in Budapest III. - Margaret Island 2007-03-01 01:52:00 Margaret Island
(Margitsziget) is a 2.5 km long island in the middle of the Danube in central Budapest
, between the two city parts, Buda and Pest. Margaret Island is one of the most beautiful open spaces in the city. In contrast to similar islands in other great cities, Margitsziget has not been built over, but has remained a huge park in the heart of Budapest. It is a popular recreational area Read more:Margaret
Who Is Speak, The Hungarian Rapper? 2007-02-28 23:38:00 He is not a Hungarian rap star at all. Currently he is working in Cyprus as a manager of an upscale restaurant. Want to know more about him? Visit his unofficial fan site! Read more:Rapper
Speak, The Hungarian Rapper Lyrics 2007-02-28 23:14:00 Speak is more and more popular in the world. Unfortunately he is starting to be the symbol of Hungary and the Hungarian music despite the fact that we have really great singers who deserve much more popularity than Speak, The Hungarian Rapper
.
Loads of people came to Hungary in English blog by the keyword of "Speak, The Hungarian Rapper lyrics" but, up to now, couldn't find the lyrics.
Lyrics:
Lake Balaton II. - Badacsony 2007-02-25 22:09:00 Lake Balaton (sometimes called the Hungarian sea) is the largest lake in Central Europe. The peak season extends from June until the end of August. It's very enjoyable to bath in the lake since the average water temperature in summer is about 25 °C (77 °F). I collected the most beautiful, most interesting and most exciting towns which should be visited at Lake Balaton.
2. Badacsony - Fine wine
Maestro - Hungarian Oscar Nomination 2007-02-25 21:43:00 Maestro is the first Hungarian movie nominated for Oscar
since 1972. Tonight it will turn out if Maestro will win the Academy Award for the best animated short. Read more:Maestro
, Nomination
Lake Balaton I. - Siofok 2007-01-30 17:05:00 Lake Balaton (sometimes called the Hungarian sea) is the largest lake in Central Europe. The peak season extends from June until the end of August. It's very enjoyable to bath in the lake, since the average water temperature in summer is about 25 °C (77 °F). I collected the most beautiful, most interesting and most exciting towns which should be visited at Lake Balaton.
1. Siofok - For young
Budapest - On Andrassy Avenue From Heroes' Square to Oktogon 2007-01-28 22:13:00 Andrassy Avenue
is part of the World Heritage. It is one of the most representative streets in Hungary and one of Budapest
very few avenues. Heroes' Square
lies at the end of Andrassy Avenue. The famous square is sorrounded by two pretty buildings, Museum of Fine Arts and Palace of Art. The other end of the avenue is Oktogon. Oktogon derives its name from its shape, which is that of an octagon (a
New NOX Videoclips 2007-01-28 20:59:00 It seems that you like NOX very much. Diane even demanded for more NOX clips. So for the sake of Diane, some new NOX videos.. I still think that NOX is one of the best Hungarian pop bands. Besides NOX is very popular in Hungary, as I experienced, people from abroad who get to know the group, adore them, too.
NOX: Csak jatssz!
NOX: Szeretem
Formerly on Hungary in English blog: Great
Means of Transport in Hungary II. - Budapest Metro 2007-01-28 14:44:00 The Budapest
Metro consists of three lines. Line 4 is under construction. There are also plans for Budapest Metro Line 5.
The line 1 of Budapest Metro is the oldest subway of the continental Europe. It was inagurated in 1896, the year of millennium.
Line 2 was built from 1950 to 1963 and is currently under major reconstructions. Among others, stations are renovated. The renovation will have Read more:Means
, Hungary
Speak, The Hungarian Rapper - The Funniest I Have Ever Seen 2007-01-25 21:33:00 Speak is the most hilarious rapper I have ever seen. He is really great: his rap techique, the lyrics, the ryhmes all worth for a Grammy.. At the same time, it is important to mention that Speak's clip has never been in any Hungarian TV. Neither I, nor my friends have ever heard of him before this fantastic videoclip.
Speak, The Hungarian Rapper
Lyrics
Things To See in Budapest I. - The Buda Castle District 2007-01-25 16:23:00 Buda Castle
, which is the part of the Budapest
World Heritage Site since 1987, was built in the 14th century by Prince Stephen. King Sigismund Luxemburg of Hungary greatly enlarged the palace between 1410 and 1420. Unfortunately, serious damage was caused by Hasburgs, and Turkish. Finally, Buda Castle was destroyed in the great siege of 1686 when Buda was captured by the allied Christian forces. Read more:District
The Worst Hungarian (I think not only Hungarian..) Videoclip Ever 2007-01-25 15:51:00 Since I can't make up a better description for this idontknowhat than the uploader of this video wrote, I would quote him.
"The guy is simply unskilled so don't care about him. The essence is Kiszel Tunde who is one of the strangest woman in Hungary. No. SHE IS. She think
s she is the most beautiful woman in the world, she thinks she is smart and clever and good and sexy and everything. She had Read more:think not
The Hungarian Golden Team 2007-01-25 15:45:00 Since Hungary's national football team is currently terrible, it is good to look back to the old times when the Hungarian Golden
Team was the best in the world. Hungary was the first European team which defeathed the English national team on home soil. In 1953 they stunned England with a 6-3 win at Wembley Stadium. At their next meeting in 1954 Hungary's national team was even more fantastic:
A Very Dru** Hungarian Man 2007-01-25 15:25:00 Alc****** is a great problem in Hungary. There are thousands of people in Hungary who die because of diseases caused by al********. The amount of deaths caused by this is one of the greatest in Europe. This video showes a citizen on his way home from a pub. According to some people it is a very funny video, but someone says it is very sad and pathetic. In their opinion, this poor man shouldn't be
Means of Transport in Hungary I. - Trams 2007-01-24 13:23:00 Have you ever wondered what kind of means of transport are used in Hungary
? First of all, let's see trams!
- 'UV' type tram, Budapest
Used from 1950s. They are being withdrawn from service.
Photos by Ikaros Images, g e
- Ganz 8-axle tram, Budapest
Used from 1967.
Photo by Rivertay
- Tatra T5C5 tram, Budapest
Used from 1984
Photo by nagy.david
- Siemens Combino tram, Budapest Read more:Means
Hungary From Space 2007-01-21 20:32:00 Szeged and its sorroundings
Puskás Ferenc Stadium and Budapest Sports-Court
Margit Island, Budapest
Lake Balaton
Hungaroring, home of the Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix
Danube bend
Photos by Google Earth Read more:Hungary
, Space
Great Hungarian Music - NOX 2007-01-21 19:04:00 NOX is one of the most popular Hungarian pop groups and also probably the best-known Hungarian band thanks to their Eurovision performance. They have everything to be succesful: a beautiful singer with wonderful voice, great coreography, entertaining music of high standard, Hungarian folk elements in their music. So it's no surprise that all of their records went platinum.
One more clip: NOX: Read more:Great
, Music
Things To See - World Heritage Sites in Hungary 2007-01-21 18:05:00 Hungary is home to 8 UNESCO WorldHeritageSites
:
1. Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue
Photos by hexod.us and Marko_K
2. Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)
Photo by Beckletic
3. Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape
Photo by Dieter Karner
4. Hortobágy National Park - The Puszta
Photo by Mr. White Rabbit
5. Read more:Hungary
, World Heritage
Magdolna Rúzsa: From Great Poverty To Be The Greatest Hungarian Singer 2007-01-06 15:00:00 Magdolna Rúzsa was born in 1985 in Kishegyes, Vojvodina and lived in great poverty with her family. She was unemployed, in addition, her boyfriend left her so she had deep depression. But everything changed after he applied to the Hungarian Idol, the Megasztár. After she sang her first song it was never doubted that she will win the contest. And so was it. Now she is the greatest Hungarian singer Read more:Great
, Poverty
, Greatest
Zoltán Gera: From D*** And A*****l A******* To The Premiership 2007-01-06 14:38:00 Frankly, Hungarian football is currently terrible. Despite our glorious past, now we have bad teams and an even worse national team with some clumsy players. Maybe it will change because Hungary's young team is very succesful. But currently there are very few Hungarian footballers who are international stars. However, we have one very great player called Zoltán Gera. He is currently playing in Read more:Premiership
The Tragic And Controversial Life of The King of The Pop 2007-01-06 00:36:00 Imre Zámbó (better-known as Jimmy Zámbó) was one of Hungary's best-selling pop stars whose each album went platinum. He was often referred to in Hungary as "the king". However, despite having an unbelievable voice, not everyone loved him. He was not a handy man, nor was he a nice person. Despite these things, he was a huge star, the greatest singer in Hungary. The tickets to his concerts were Read more:Controversial
Things To See - Pécs, European Capital of Culture, 2010 2007-01-03 23:55:00 Pécs awarded European
Capital of Culture, 2010. The city has a mediterranean feel which is similar to Szeged. The beauty and the atmosphere of the city is also similar to the City of Sunshine. However, one of the greatest differences between the two cities that Szeged, situated on a flat area, has no mountains at all.
Photos by: listerspot, suhajdab, ianpatrickhines
Things NOT To See - Some Parts of Budapest 2007-01-01 15:52:00 Budapest is one of the most beautiful capitals of the world. There is no other capital city which combines beautiful buildings, World Heritages, spas, cultural events, mountains, forests, pubs, discos, spicy nightlife, pleasant weather, etc. Most tourists fall in love with the city at first sight.
However, Budapest, as any other city has some parts which shouldn't and which should never seen by Read more:Budapest
, Parts
, Things NOT
Pengő would be 80 years old today - the world's biggest hyperinflation 2006-12-30 17:25:00 Pengő was introduced in Hungary as national currency on December 30, 1926 and was the part of the world's biggest hyperinflation ever.
After the end of the World War II the inflation in Hungary was 4.19x 1016percent per month. It meaned that the prices doubled every 15 hours. Before 1945, the highest denomination was 1,000 Pengő. By the end of 1945, it was 10,000,000 Pengő. But the highest
Things NOT to See - Dunaújváros 2006-12-30 01:04:00 Hungary is a beautiful country which beauty can be seen in the Things To See category (which is not ready yet..) However, Hungary, like any other country in the world, has ugly parts which tourists rarely visit, too. The first city showed here is Dunaújváros which is not as ugly and dirty as some other places which will be shown later. Instead, Dunaújváros simply has no any tourist sights. Read more:Things NOT
Awesome blinkenlight performance 2007-05-13 02:46:00 At a dormitory competition in 2005 students of University of Technology and Economics in Budapest turned the dormitory building into a big dot matrix display. They created a special system which controlled the lights and set up a light in front of each windows of the dormitory. A little box turned the electricity in and out. This little box was connected to a controller computer which played the
Lake Balaton feeling 2007-05-13 02:30:00 German teenagers had the time of their life at Lake Balaton. Thanks for popularizing Hungary!
Photo by Szili
Our rankings of Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2007-05-13 01:54:00 Let's see Hungary in English blog's rankings of Eurovision
Song Contest
. According to us the just result would have been as follows. Or maybe it's not the just result but our opinion.
1. Hungary, Magdi Ruzsa
2. Moldova, Natalia Barbu
3. Finland, Hanna Pakarinen
4. Bulgaria, Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov
5. Serbia, Marija Serifovic
...
10. Russia, Serebro
...
16. Turkey, Kenan Dogulu
...
21. Read more:Eurovision Song Contest
Magdi Ruzsa deserved the best songwriter award in ESC! 2007-05-13 01:12:00 Magdi Ruzsa finally came 9th in the Eurovision Song Contest final which she and Hungarians can be very proud of since, as we saw, culturually and ethnically akid countries voted each other and Hungary doesn't have too many of these. At the same time, Magdi deserved the best songwriter
award for her beautiful song! Congratulations on your performance and your talent of songwriting!
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Magdi Ruzsa - The first Hungarian world star? 2007-05-12 17:50:00 Hungary in English blog has already written about Magdi Ruzsa. The reason for the new post about her is her great ESC performance in Eurovision Song Contest semi-final which dazzled viewers and critics both. Her fantastic performance was enough for the final which is held tonight.
According to lots of people she is one of the best in the field. Tonight over 100 million viewers can see her and
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