>high quality blogs about living in Slovakia/HungaryI'm not sure if there're any high quality blogs... Gonna list the ones I read, though. (I'm Hungarian myself, so I read them for fun, not sure if they're useful.)
http://www.caboodle.hu/http://www.pestiside.hu/For photos... I don't know, I'd just search on flickr or something. I'm gonna post later if I find any good photo blogs focusing on Slovakia/Hungary.
Also Slovakia is beautiful. Just avoid the capital, Bratislava is just bland.
I'd also avoid most of Eastern Hungary.