After 796 COVID-enforced days in the UK, we were finally travelling again. Destination: Budapest. My first time in Eastern Europe, coinciding with war returning to the region for the first time in the 21st century. And to a country which gets harsh criticism from western media, as an EU country with a supposedly autocratic leader and limited freedoms. Would I find a climate of suspicion? People fearful of the return of Russian aggression, given Hungary was under the Soviet Union’s […]