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Do you know that visitor counter widget built into webpages that tells you how many visits the website has had? That counter on one of our favourite “tea break websites” says thirteen million. Wait, no. It’s thirteen billion. 13,645,024,327 visits since the website was launched...
It’s getting harder to form an opinion on the weather. We are less and less surprised that the weather surprises us. Record highs and record-long hot summer periods without a cloud in the sky used to have the potential to make headlines. Now it would raise more eyebrows if meteorologists predicted a normal, “rulebook” spring, summer, autumn or winter...
I wonder how fast our mood and the weather will switch to “autumn mode” this year. The scorching heat has divided us into two groups now: those who escape to the nearest beach whenever they can, and those who do not go out until the sun goes down...
Last week we posted part one of our mini post series, “What to do in August”. For all of you, adventure-seekers, the remaining 20 days of summer still offers a great variety of promising events...
It’s 6th August. Some might say that summer is almost over but adventure-seekers see another month full of promising events....

Get your books for the summer

We are two weeks from June. It’s time to pick your summer books. For language learners who want to find some great books for the summer we have an invaluable link…

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Know how to spell what you celebrate

Is it Mothers’ Day today? Or Mother’s Day? Or Mothers Day maybe? In Hungarian, there is no dilemma around the spelling of Anyák napja. In English, however, hyphenation raises a question. We have found out about it and put a link in our blog post, in case you have any doubt about that hyphen…

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Get ready for city tours

We are less than 2 days from May. The high season for city tours starts around late spring and lasts until early autumn. We would like to help you get ready, in an unusual way.

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Light reading for a sunny day

On an easy Sunday afternoon like this, we recommend that you sit back and, for some light reading practice, join us in figuring out what on earth the term international pixel-stained technopeasant means and why it is mentioned on the same page as the London Marathon and Shakespeare.

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21st century vocabulary

Don’t you find it interesting that sometimes, in a ten-word sentence, there are at least five words that did not exist a few decades ago?

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Easter Vocabulary Feast

Easter traditions vary not only from country to country but also even neighbouring regions of the same country celebrate Easter in different ways…

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