British family moving to Budapest!

[Rozalyn Page]

Hi We are a British family moving to Budapest next month.  Can anyone recommend somewhere to buy a second hand car?  Also, when you moved to Budapest, was there anything you wish you had brought with you that you struggle to get there ?  Many thanks

[Tahira Jafary]

Www.Hasznaltauto.hu or http://www.expressz.hu

All in Hungarian unfortunately but u can use the help of google translate

The sellers are also mostly non English speakers so pretty much a nightmare.

As expats, other options are ads put up on kids school noticeboards (assuming they go to an international school) or the Facebook group 'used stuff for sale in Budapest' or sites like caboodle.hu or http://www.erikasattic.com

Hope this helps.

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013, Rozalyn Page wrote:

Hi We are a British family moving to Budapest next month.  Can anyone recommend somewhere to buy a second hand car?  Also, when you moved to Budapest, was there anything you wish you had brought with you that you struggle to get there ?  Many thanks

--
Have questions? Read the FAQ! http://bit.ly/10QhpcS
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to budapestmoms...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out?hl=en

[anette_k]

Hi! We just came from Poland few weeks ago and what I miss is :

- real sausage (in PL we have some great stuff, here it is difficult to find sth w/o paprika.. :))

- fruit jelly (here on the shelves I see tones of pudding and NO jelly, except 1 type to be used on a cake - but for this one if u just want to make a jelly with fruits, u have to change proportions, which w/o knowing hungarian is difficult to know how.. that's how I spoiled it and I don't wish to buy it again..)

- wholemeal flour - I was looking for this, type 2000, needed to finish our bread as the one we brought from PL was out before we finish to make our first bread.. no way to find it here - unless sb here dear moms knows where to go..?..

...

Dont know if it helps u :)

Enjoy Budapest !

 

-

W dniu środa, 27 listopada 2013 09:37:01 UTC+2 użytkownik Rozalyn Page napisał:

[venusz vidak]

Dear Anette,
 
There is a British Store (1136 Budapest, Tátra St 26 ) where you can get real jello.They have various flavours, they even have weight wathcer's jelly. In Culinaris (they have a couple of stores in Budapest but I suggest the largest one that is in the III. district) they have all kinds of sausages like french wine sausage or real english sausage (1kg is only a 1000fts!) I dont know about polish ones but it worth checking it out.There you can also find jello too. I hope that I could help :-)!
 
Have a nice day!
 
Venus
 

---

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:50:21 -0800
From: aneta.k...@gmail.com
To: budape...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [budapestmoms] Re: British family moving to Budapest!

[Tamuna Koberidze]

Hi. I would suggest to bring many 3 pin plug adaptors into 2 pin eu plugs, considering that you bring various electronic devices with you :). I had a hard time of finding them here.

[Tahira Jafary]

There is also an online British store : 

http://britishpantry.hu

[Fules Marta]

Dear Rozalyn, 

we have a friend, who is selling used cars. We bought all our cars from him, and lot of our friends are buying car from him. He used to go to the Technology university, but he also repairs cars. He is mad about cars, motors, and all kind of mechanic stuff. So if we have a problem(with our car), we just call him, and he organizes to fix the problem. I can ask him what car he has on stock now, or can give you his contact number.

Regards, 

MArta

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Rozalyn Page <rozp...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi We are a British family moving to Budapest next month.  Can anyone recommend somewhere to buy a second hand car?  Also, when you moved to Budapest, was there anything you wish you had brought with you that you struggle to get there ?  Many thanks

--

[Andi]

Hi there,

most of the best shops have now been listed, another note that Tesco's international shelves will also have the basic items though depends on the store, Budaors Tesco seems to be the best. Tesco here also started online ordering and home delivery and it's in English too.

culinaris.hu in 5th and the Asian store next to the Grand Market on Vamhaz korut https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ázsia-Bt/539021799452655 are the best stores to find anything more exotic if you need stuff for a meal (spices other ingredients)

The main point is that most of these items will be a LOT more expensive than in the UK even if you can find them here so when we go we always bring back basic supplies of the below. Also not sure if you know but Hungary has a VAT of 27% the highest in the EU so that explains why things are so expensive here, also in the UK there is no VAT on children's clothes, baby supplies and shoes - so unless the sales are on here we shop for most of our clothes in the UK...

so we tend to bring:

- breakfast cereal, mueslis - in normal supermarkets you can't get normal cheerios for example only the very sweet honey ones, good muesli is expensive, good brands like my favourite Dorset muesli you pay a fortune

- set honey - Hungary has great honey but this is my favourite and we always bring some back

- basic spices for an Indian, Thai, mango chutney 

- good cheddar cheese - selection here even in Tesco is pretty poor so we always bring back cheese

- if you eat pork - we do stock up on those good English sausages too for a good sausage and mash esp for the winter months 

- if you arrive before Xmas and if you celebrate it - make sure you stock up in M&S for the Xmas puddings, minced pies and your xmas crackers, cranberry sauce etc - they would be hard to find and/or for double the money - one of the years the Great Market Hall organised 3 days of British market and we paid ridiculous money for some crackers we learnt our lesson since. Hungarian traditional Xmas won't have any of these

- my English husband always gets annoyed how you can't get easy over the counter medicine here - you can't get them in the supermarkets here only in the chemist and even then you have to ask for them and interact in Hungarian - we always stock up on basic supplies of paracetamol, ibuprofen, lemsip etc, children's medicine is also more strict here and very often you need a prescription from the doctor when the same thing you would just get from the shelves from Boots (a recent example when I tried to get some allergy relief for my 3.5 yrs old and was told I need prescription)

Will let you know if I can think of more :)

Good luck!

Andi

[nina]

If anyone is looking for British style sausage, you can order from:

http://wilkinsonsausage.com/

David Wilkinson, makes them locally.

Nina

[Dina Rippon]

Hi Rozalyn,
I agree with much of what has been said here - like Andi says, we always get all the over-the-counter medicines when we travel to England, because it's so much easier to get things like ibuprofen, aspirin, lemsip there....and far cheaper. Ditto the non-sugary cereals, muesli and  set honey (why is it so hard to find here?), custard, shortbread cookies, and of course all the british christmasy stuff. I think I've seen custard at culinaris here, but it is so much more expensive. I actually wish I'd found this group and asked the same question as you did before we moved here almost a year ago, because I definitely would have stocked up on childrens' clothes and shoes!
I have also missed english sausage - and didn't know that there was a culinaris that sold them here. I'll definitely check that out!
Another thing we always stock up on in england is TEA! You can get tea here of course, but there's just nowhere near as much variety, and it is also more expensive. If you like particular flavours - like different types of chai tea or redbush mixes - all so easily accessible at Tesco in the UK, but very hard to find here. Decaf tea is also hard to get here if you drink that. And oh yes - Pimms too :)
Good luck with your move!
Dina

[venusz vidak]

Hey Dina,
 
I always get pg tips decaf from Culinaris. You should visit that shop, they have almost everything :-). (also the British shop sells them, and they have diffrent brands of decaf teas).
 
Cheers ,Venusz
 

---

Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:52:03 -0800
From: dina....@gmail.com

To: budape...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [budapestmoms] Re: British family moving to Budapest!

[Dorothy]

Anette,

You can find fruit jelly in Tesco, only in two favors (orange and raspberry if I remember correctly) they are usually at the same place as the pudding and jelly for cakes but in a bigger pack. I buy them all the time as my kids love jelly :)

Wholemeal flour you can find in the organic section.

Dorothy

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 10:50:21 PM UTC+1, anette_k wrote:

[Dina Rippon]

Thanks for the tip, Venusz. That's good news!

[Becci Allen]

Squash. That's one of the things I miss from the UK and it's not sold here. Of course you can buy it from TheBritishPantry or Culinaris but it is just the branded squash like Robinson's or Ribena. I always bring a few bottles of the supermarket own brand double concentrate stuff.
If you have younger kids and you buy snack foods like the Goodies or Organix things, flapjacks, rice cakes, potatoe snacks, dried fruit bars etc - none of that over here. All the children's stuff is still full of salt and sugar. You can find rice cakes and some healthier snack foods for kids down the organic sections in the supermarkets, but not really / necessarily aimed at children. I always bring the flapjack bars and marmite rice crackers back with me as my little one loves them.
If you are a chocolate lover - Hungarian chocolate isn't up to much. They sell Milka as a kind of Cadbury substitute, but it doesn't taste anything like cadbury's. You can buy good quality Swiss or Belgian chocolate here,but it's a bit pricey and again, you can get hold of cadbury's via the British stores,but it's imported and expensive. Fine for a treat.
Check out the Facebook page/group 'Budapest Cafe'. You can also ask your questions there and get good advice from the English speaking expat community on pretty much anything.
Good luck with the move and we look forward to meeting you soon. Becci

[Lori Nirenstein]

Ditto to what others have said. I also bring back certain baking ingredients from the uk which are not readily available here and more expensive eg chocolate chips, ground almonds. Also kids snacks like the Organix and Ella's kitchen ranges. Cereals and even porridge like ready brek definitely.
Lori

[Andi]

Becci - that's true that lot of the cereals and the kids stuff are sweet really annoying but DM's has got a good organic section of most of the things you mention rice cakes, fruit bars etc

also I have bought the Organix stuff in Tesco before but of course ridiculously expensive and variety obviously not as good as in the UK. Ella's kitchen stuff used to be sold in Culinaris a few years ago, not sure if now we moved from 5th 2 yrs ago but yeah price was expensive. in case you run out :)

I didn't single out the baby items but yes we used to bring back loads of those stuff too.

We like our squash too though I always thought the likes of Ribenas were way too sweet for my liking. if you ever run out here I can recommend the Hungarian brand Piroska in many flavours - that has no added sugar and no preservatives sold in most supermarkets. Tesco also has their own branded squash here too.

Andi

[Elissa Helms]

I miss things and import them from my country (the US) or places I travel to, too, but there are also great things here locally. On baby/toddler snacks - I love the organic puffed millet and wheat and kids love that, too. So I don't really miss plain Cheerios, for example. And plain oatmeal is perfectly cheap here. You can avoid the sugary/junky stuff pretty well, especially if you go to the bio shops, market halls, organic food sections of many bigger stores, like Andi says. So import the things you have room for and want as a treat but it's not like you're moving to a desert! :)

--

[SONA PETROSYAN]

Hi, we are another British family moving to Budapest.What are the main things you have been struggling with there?

[SONA PETROSYAN]

Hi Marta,
What are the contact details of the friend who is selling cars?

[con...@dramaworks.hu]

http://m.hasznaltauto.hu this is like auto trader in hungarian, manage it using google translate and it also tells you which language seller speaks.

On 23 Aug 2015 10:26, "SONA PETROSYAN" <snpet...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Marta,
What are the contact details of the friend who is selling cars?

[Sandrine]

Hi! Welcome to Hungary!

Buying and registering a car in Hungary can indeed be a little bit of a challenge if you do not speak hungarian! I just went through the motion!

If you would like to, i can give you the contact of the person who just helped us, from finding the car that matched my criteria, having it checked/inspected by a professional, helping with the purchase paperwork and getting an insurance, to registering the car and getting the plates.

He is really great and made things very easy for us!

He works with a lot of expats and also always knows about second hand cars being sold by departing families.

He is very knowledgeable, honest and he won't hesitate to tell you if he has any doubt about a car!

Please feel free to contact me if you would like more information or have any other questions! 

Good luck with installation!

All the best 

Sandrine

[Yulia Galvin]

Interesting that I had to come across this thread on my holidays in Ireland. Not quite UK, but still... And I find myself missing Hungarian stuff. A lot of healthy choices, not even talking about the variety of FRESH LOCAL fruit.  As for Cadburry's chocolates, I personally don't even call it chocolates, sweets maybe. You need to shop around and try local stuff. I managed to find my favourites within 10 years living ib Budapest.. 

--