Spring Things

Fill your spiritual spring basket with things to do! Budacast's Nóra Selmeczi offers her recommendations for what you should do this spring in Budapest. Click 'read more' for more.

Five fab things to do in the spring in Budapest:

1. Ride your bike & save the earth - The Cycle to Work campaign has just begun so you can still join and ride your bike to work. Yes, even if you're wearing a suit. Still not convinced? Then celebrate the weekend before Earth Day in style: ride your bike at the biggest Critical Mass event - or take pictures of "bicycle fashion in everyday life" and win prizes.

2. Get nomadic - After Russia and Germany the Hungarian National Museum hosts the largest touring exhibition of Scythian art. Breathtakingly beautiful archeological finds can be seen from all over the former Soviet Union and Europe. A great activity for the whole family: for history-buff daddy, for bling-loving mommy and just plain curious kids.

3. Go to the movies - Good for rainy afternoons and weekends, as the month of April seems to pamper the movie-goers with a great lineup of premieres: you can watch Clint Eastwood's The Changeling and Gran Torino, Wolverine's adventures in X-Men Origins, the hilarious French hit Welcome to the Ch'tis! or just rent a good old Godard movie from the Odeon.

4. Go on a picnic - Just forget the ready-made meals and take some deliciously fresh white bread (házikenyer) and ham (sonka), some hard boiled eggs (főtt tojás) and fresh ruccola and you're ready to make an award-winning sandwich. Or just get inspired by the pictures on the Fűszer és Lélek blog, grab your basket, a bottle of wine and find some lovely place near Buda in the Pilisi Parkerdő (for example here) to enjoy food, nature and good company. Do I have to mention that you can get there by bike?

5. Timetravel back to the 60's - Back in the 90's we had 'Eklektika', sporting a heart-warmingly retro interior, then there's Kádár Étkezde that is exotic for some, but an eerily familiar experience for the majority whose taste buds were raised with the flavors of school canteens. These days I recommend Pántlika Bisztró in Budapest's Városliget park, where, FYI, Attila Gigor shot scenes for his movie 'A nyomozó' (The Investigator).

Stay tuned and happy spring in Budapest!

Nóra