Budapest
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It’s not every day I feel compelled to write a travel review, but once in a while I have an experience at a place so rewarding that I feel I owe it to the establishment to get its name out there. The fact that Kuglóf Kávézó, tucked into the passageway at Pesti Barnabás utca number…
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I was at Budapest-Keleti this morning for one of my weekend trips out of town, and I had a couple minutes to kill before boarding so I pulled out my current book, Catch-22 (I know, I haven’t read it yet). Reading about Yossarian and his zany flight squadron while waiting for a train, I had…
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When the rain starts falling in Budapest it doesn’t come with a warning. The drops fall heavy and splatter on the cracked sidewalks and the citizens run for cover. Men in suits dash single file alongside the granite buildings. The windows of the tenements on higher floors that were open for the heat start shuttering…
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I recently met up with an old friend in Budapest and as we were walking near the city center, he asked me, quite randomly, “have you seen the Michael Jackson shrine?” I was intrigued, and it just so happened that it was less than a block away, so we went there, and sure enough, we…
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