Spotter since 2019
About me
I was born and raised in Romania and come from a family of mixed Romanian and Hungarian heritage. I am a native speaker of both languages and my parents are teachers, so I was always very interested in learning new things and trying to have a balanced and informed view on whatever topic I was dealing with. I moved to Budapest to study and majored in English and Finnish. After university I started working in HR, which is what I am still doing today, leading a team of HR advisors working with the entire EMEA region. Besides my day job, I am a keen photographer, with a special interest in architecture and urbanism, and I occasionally freelance as a translator and write articles for Romanian media outlets, mainly related to cultural events such as concerts or festivals.
Why Budapest
Budapest has become my home away from home and I feel that now, more than ever, the city needs people to stay and maintain its cosmopolitan, open nature. I am very interested in the idea of Central and Eastern Europe as a cultural continuum that I feel very much a part of, and I spent a lot of time investigating Budapest’s past and present from this point of view, so whenever I am introducing the city to someone I try to go beyond stereotypes and offer them a more genuine vision of Budapest.
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"Arán Bakery Budapest" fuels my dreams with sourdough bread like my grandmother made it and delicious cinnamon rolls...
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"Sport Bisztró" in Budapest is a pleasantly familiar, well-oiled haunt that sticks to the proverb 'healthy mind in a healthy body!' Great sports bar, too.
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"Nos a Hely" is a pop-up vintage shop in Hungary - they have a carefully curated selection of vintage porcelain and other local items. Great for gifts!
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"Pogány-torony", or Pagan Tower, in Budapest, is one of the city's strangest buildings, with a Gothic folk-tale-meets-Tolkien charm...
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"Szeráj Turkish Restaurant" in Budapest, but that's not all! This place is the great leveler: here you can meet anyone, from hungry students to TV stars...
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"Kéhli" Restaurant in Budapest not only has excellent food and gypsy bands -- the best thing about it is that you get a taste of life in the golden age...
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The Japanese garden hidden in a leafy corner of Zugló. It was created in 1928 by Márton Varga and followed Japanese principles as much as possible...
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Jókai Garden in Budapest may be small, but it belongs to the Duna-Ipoly National Park.
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