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  0 0 Budapest is great, I went there a couple of years ago in February. Do go to a turkish bath, slightly intimidating at first with trying to figure out what exactly the procedure is but once you hit the water all is fine, also go to Central Kavehaz(Karolyi Mihaly ut 9) the food rocks and just drinking coffee and watching people do there thing is fine also. Public transport is great if you're going to be there a while look into weekly passes. Check out Libella Kavehaz near the Gellert Hotel for an authentic neighborhood bar(Budafoki ut 7). All in all Budapest has one of the best cafe scenes in Europe. A good recent Hungarian movie is Kontroll. The Public Food Market is a cool place to wander around and see just how much Hungarians worship pork. We had no real problems with anyone there, language is fairly difficult to try and speak not latin or germanic based but we got by with thank you as our sole magyar language skill. Enjoy your trip I envy you. I agree with all of the sites that Griffin recomends and if you like pastry try the Dobos torte. morton snodgrass answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I can't speak to Bratislava, but I spent some time in/near Budapest so I hope this helps. Go see the castle in Buda. Yes, it's in your guidebooks, but it's worth going to see the museums within. On Castle Hill, go to the House of Hungarian Wines if you drink--it's pretty cheap and you get to drink your way through the museum/store/wine booster facility. Check out Parliament and go see the royal Hungarian jewels and coronation robes. For a more controversial museum, check out the Museum of Communist History (the Terror Haza). If you want to get a better grasp on Eastern Bloc history, this is the place to go. You'll know you're in the right place when you see/smell the Russian tank in the foyer. Very powerful to visit, too. I'd say that this is a must-see. The Children's Railroad is very cute if you're into trains, and you can ride the cogwheel train to get to it. Check out the synagogue and its Holocaust memorial tree. The synagogue is one of the largest extant ones in the region. San Margit Hid is a neat place to wander around--there's a zoo and the ruins of a church built in the year 700 on the island. I believe that you can rent bicycles there to get around. Gellert Hid is where all the old Communist statues have been placed, and you go past the Cave Church to get there (this church is where the Pauline order of monks are based). If you'll be in Budapest on October 23, that day is a day of remembrance for both the 1956 peasant uprising and the 1989 official end of communism. Lots of places will be closed but there will be ceremonies and such. If you don't speak any Hungarian, I don't recommend straying too far out of Budapest as it can be difficult to find people who speak anything other than Hungarian outside of the tourist areas. If you want to do so, though, the British Embassy published a book titled "Just Enough Hungarian to Get By" which is cheap and helpful. Hope this helps, and enjoy your tour of Eastern Europe. Griffin answered in Trips & Travel about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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