Could this really be our city, this unfinished, imperfect,
disproportionate, scar-ridden, tired, sad, poor city? And we nod;
Yes, yes, indeed: this finished, whole, harmonious, healthy,
throbbing, youthful, rich city.
Budapest is a city of startling contrasts. It is both beautiful
and ugly, ostentatious and poor, filthy rich and poverty-stricken
, a thousand years old and unfamiliarly new, restored, pampered
and dilapidated, dynamically developing and a thing of the past.
It’s geographical situation is spectacular, it’s details
enchanting. But even the best part of it’s body is blemished
by unsightly sores, scars, and wounds. And though we see the
healthy parts on the body of the city, it is still painful to compare it’s present aspect with the proud one it bore one-hundred years ago. One hundred years ago, this city was an organic whole, harmonious, dynamic and seductive, even with its plaster facades..
Yet on almost every
photograph we sense that this city was never finished, and what
has been finished was later horribly disfigured, and that the new
grew out of the ruins only in haste and in a slap-dash manner.
And on nearly every picture we can also see that for decades,
this city had no owner, no one to take care of her. Budapest is like us,
who were born here and live here, and will die here: left to
fend for itself, incomplete, fatigue-ridden, yet determined to
survive, to survive despite all odds, though the odds are
countless without number…It is a city of contrasts, a city of
boths, a city of wounds, It suits us to perfection. Some men
like young women, rosy-cheeked, innocent young girls with perfect
figures, pure souls, ringing voices, who know nothing of the
past, of passing, of sadness and death. This too is desirable.
But we who live in this city prefer wisened older women who have
been marred by time, who have a past, a history, and even a
secret or two, who have many stories to tell yet remain
stubbornly silent, but from this silence there bubbles forth,
with a continual, ear-splitting shrill, a well of sadness.
This is our woman, this is our Budapest.
Hungary is a friendly country waiting for tourists
from the West to find out the pleasures waiting for them. The
country is well covered by good quality roads serviced by plenty
of gas stations and many modern motels along the major routes.
The food is good, basic and best of all, inexpensive. Wine is
also inexpensive and although the quality varies greatly some
good vintages can be found. 
Accommodations right in the city, such as in Prague are typical
city expensive but all other accommodations are most reasonably
priced and extremely comfortable.
There are many rooms for rent along the main roads, bed and
breakfast or 'zimmer' style at most affordable rates.
There are many fine buildings and a plethora of well preserved
monuments in and around the city of Budapest, and many have
grounds offering pleasant walks.
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