It's OK to Travel with a Bathrobe: Carmen Arufe has been hired by a captain of a yacht and will be taking to the open sea from Europe to the Caribbean and ...
There are six things you dream of on a cycling holiday: flat, smooth tarmac, beautiful scenery, easy navigation, delicious food, a welcoming bed and an enticing final destination. The Danube River has
Updated: September 17, 2001 Budapest, Hungary Budapest will never be Budapest for me. If through some twist of fate I move here and spend 20 years in the city, it will not be Budapest. It will be, first and foremost, the place where I heard about the terrorist attack upon the Pentagon and World Trade [...]
Updated: September 10, 2001 Two Reasons I Know I am in Budapest We arrived in Budapest in the early morning and spent much of the day wandering around the cold, overcast city vaguely disappointed. Around six o'clock I was walking along the Pest side of the Danube when I looked up. Directly above me on [...]
To all future visitors of Budapest, remember this motto: “Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.” The following notes will provide you with some useful info regarding how to get around in a city full of surprises. PEOPLE Hungarians use their names in reverse order. Surnames first, given names second. The average [...]
“Hungary – Budapest or Bucharest? Where is it? Is everybody a gypsy there? Are there paved roads? Is it a dangerous place to go?” These are probably the first questions which come to tourists’ mind about Hungary. If you skim thourgh any of the recommended literature you will have the following passage almost everywhere: “Hungary [...]
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Bull's Blood, the historical defeat of 60,000 Turk 