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HOW IT ALL BEGAN – PART ONE: The first station zero – Maxi bar

Most people ask me how did I come to the idea to start a blog about pubcrawling. The answer wouldn’t be complete due to only one reason, although so many rivers of my life ran into this direction, and once they met, they created this idea with an immediate yes on it in my mind. Continue Reading

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HOW IT ALL BEGAN – The second station zero: Borpatika, Hévíz

One day after I said goodbye to Maxi bar in Opatija, I was in Hungary again. I was travelling to Zalaegerszeg through Hévíz, but I missed my connection. I won one hour there. I went to look around how the second most commercial guest nights counting Hungarian settlement was developing since my last time there. Continue Reading

A Kocsmaturista August 3, 2016 Basics,PubAdventurer 4 Comments

There are no starts, there is no math – Why I don’t rate pubs

I visited more than 80 venues on my tour when I was thinking, that I am already aware of most of the aspects of a pub’s popularity, how one can attract more people or even the majority, than others. The idea of better do a rating or ranking crossed my mind again. Maybe it would Continue Reading

A Kocsmaturista July 30, 2016 Basics barhopping, budapest_bar, budapest_barhop, budapest_pub, Pubchritic, Pubcrawl, pubcrawl_budapest, pubrating Leave a comment

(More than) 80 pubs around the world

How can you meet in the Budapest nighlife the city’s oldest youth choir? How can you catch an English bar singer perform an own song based on only one Hungarian word, the ‘petrezselyem’ (parsley) from a corner, just accidentally? How do you get to know the shocking urban legend of the dildo hanging down from Continue Reading

A Kocsmaturista July 30, 2016 Basics barhop, Pubcrawl, pubcrawl_budapest, pubcrawl_europa, pubcrawl_hungary Leave a comment

About the pubs, honestly, as an adventurer

I will be a pub crawl blogger once, when I will be old, when I will have the time or just maybe… – i had no deadline, but after it started to happen by itself, there was no limit. I realized that I started it, only after I actually started it. My subconscious forced a Continue Reading

A Kocsmaturista August 5, 2016 Basics,PubAdventurer Leave a comment

The focus is outside the glass

What does it mean that I rather write about the pubs themselves and not about the alcohol? A famous Hungarian author, Sándor Márai already put this into words very well related to our old traditional coffee houses: “The visitor doesn’t only want to have a black coffee here, but he is also willing to spend Continue Reading

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About Me

I am a pubtourist from Budapest, Hungary. What does it mean? You can get close to it with the English words: barhopper or pubcrawler. The main thing is that I walk from pub to pub to explore, not the bottom of the next glass as first priority, but actually the next pub. I like these reflections of social life, which I think are more spontaneous and revealing than anything else. I believe that a city or a country draws the most complete and most honest picture of itself through the atmosphere of its various pubs and with the conversations there. The zero milestone and epicenter in my pubtour (in Hungarian we literally use this word) is Budapest. If you are a tourist or a new expat, you will find here a useful and unique guide to our pubs. Because I live here, I have the chance to do the most complete job on this scene. Although whenever i have the chance, I travel gladly outside the city or the country borders to get to know new worlds with the pubs in leading roles. When I am on a journey my real web-browsers or tourist guides are the pubs and the current guests are the search results.