Hungary’s wine regions are among Europe’s best-kept secrets. Beyond Budapest, the hills of Tokaj and Eger are dotted with vineyards, baroque towns, and family-run cellars. Instead of polished resorts, travellers here are welcomed into small pensions, rustic guesthouses, and vineyard inns where tasting a glass of local Furmint or Egri Bikavér feels like slipping intoContinue reading “Affordable Style: Inns and Guesthouses of Hungary’s Wine Villages”
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Antal Szerb and the Melancholy of Central Europe
There are writers who seem to belong to their time, and then there are writers who hover above it, too cosmopolitan to be contained, too ironic to be enlisted, too subtle to be safe. Antal Szerb was one of the latter. Born in Budapest in 1901, he lived through the dislocations of the twentieth century’sContinue reading “Antal Szerb and the Melancholy of Central Europe”
My World of Interiors 