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These are some of the useful web pages where you can find almost anything you want to learn about Budapest or Hungary.
For train schedules etc go to a site called http:/www.Elvira.com
The american Embassy has useful list of restaurants, and night clubs and other businesses that have been reported for bad business practices (like gauging etc). You do not have to be american to use this guide, only smart to avoid the places they mention.
For travel from the airport to the city look up www.bud.hu;
For expensive hotels, see www.tripadvisor.com
and for hotels linked to health spas, there are two; www.hunguesthotels.com and www.danubiushotels.com.
Other very useful sites for entertainement, business, politics etc is www.bestofbudapest.com, www.budapestweek.com, www.cybercityguides.com and www.myareaguide.com
An excellent site for clubs, concerts,restaurants,current events, is www.pestiside.hu
If you are vegetarian, there is a useful site www.budaveg.com
and if you are a backpacker looking for hostels and inexpensive alternatives www.backpackers.hu
1.If you really want to enjoy Budapest; WALK IT, and Walk it some more. .Best way to know the city is to organize for yourself half day walks. Let me know how long you are staying, what you are interested in, and I can help you with organizing your walking tour.
2. Pastry Shops
3. Health Spas and Massage
4. Trips to the spots with the Panoramique Views of Budapest
5. Wine Tasting (Hungarian of Course)
6. Identify those things that makes Budapest special: like the ChildrensTrain, the Parliament Building, Historic Sections, Art-Noveau Architecture, Culinary Specialties, The Danube, The Bridges and the Parks.
You will enjoy the taste of authentic hungarian food: meals cooked in "bogrács" or large cauldrons over an open fire, dishes with "tarhonya" a hungarian pellet pasta, fish or meat or poultry cooked in their own gravy-juices, paprika dishes that have become famous world-wide even though the paprika was originally introduced to Hungary by the Turks, strudels, stuffed vegetables like the cabbage -roll, fried vegatables like pattypan squash, " pogácsa" a type of flaky crackling scone, goose liver appetizers or main meals, "palacsinta" a pancake thicker than the french crepe but thinner than an american pancake, Túró or curd cheese in main dishes or desserts, dishes with poppyseed ,chestnuts, or walnuts, varied and delicious thick soups sometimes with Semolina Dumplings, multiple-type of stews "pörkölt" many in wine, "fõzelék" unique vegetable stews, "Rakott" layered dishes like lasagna only here with potatoes and local vegetables, "Lángos"- fried dough plain or with various toppings, "Galuska" a hungarian dumpling side dish, and deserts like Apricot Soufflé, Chestnut Purée, Poppy Seed Slices Flavored with Apricot Brandy, Walnut Cream Cake and my personal favourite- Szilvás Gombóc or Plum dumpling, prepared with potato dough and filled with fresh fruit dipped in cinnamon, sprinkled with icing sugar
I could add and add, but you will discover all of this and much more on your trip.
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Comments (4)
Always like seeing tips on puppetry---my son is a puppeteer at the Center For Puppetry Arts in Atlanta....... dustmon
Now I'm really hungry, and I still have to wait just over two weeks to try all this stuff!!! Betty
thanks Tamas, I will go there because one food of mine is in Budapest. Tosun Saral, Preseident of the Turkish Hungarian Friendship Society in Ankara
you some really great advice here..thanks so much..will be heading there soon...ursula