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Personally and professionally 2012 has been an extremely challenging year for me. There I said it. On one hand I’m pretty good at hiding behind rosy words and photographs. But over time, eventually something has to give. Without meaning to sound either cryptic or mysterious, in 2013 The Travel Belles is changing. I am changing. [...]
A photo tour at Christmas to Austria, Hungary and Slovakia When my family lived in Holland and then France 20 years ago, during Advent we traveled every weekend, mostly to Germany to a new Christmas market. We’d wander the stalls for hours taking breaks where we would wrap our mitten clad hands around mugs [...]
Traditional Hungarian Christmas dessert with poppy seeds and honey This dessert brings back so many memories from my childhood. In Hungary the Christmas tree is decorated on the Holy Night (December 24) in immediate families. For us, Christmas is a private, family holiday and we don’t go to parties. Most families decorate the tree together, [...]
This Palóc ethnographic village’s name means “Raven Stone.” And yes, a statue of raven welcomes you at the entrance of the village. The name perhaps, comes from the legend in which the lord of a castle stole a pretty maiden, whose nurse was a witch.
