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<\/a> blog from 2009, which I reconstructed first).\u00a0 Budapest, like Vienna, was once the capital of a much larger country, especially after the creation of the Dual Monarchy (Austria-Hungary)\u00a0 in 1867.\u00a0 Consequently, it has a disproportionate amount of imperial trappings: a\u00a0 huge Parliament![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2008\/08\/DSC00486.jpg\")
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<\/a>was active in Zionist causes from their 3000 seat Moorish style synagogue, and a castle that was mostly trashed in the World War II battles to reclaim the city from the Nazis.<\/p>\n<\/a>There’s a cute subway (second in the world after London) that is cheap.\u00a0 However, you’re in real trouble if you don’t have your ticket handy.\u00a0 Undercover cops nailed someone when we were on\u00a0 it.<\/p>\n As we went down the Danube, our next stop was at a showplace that featured Magyars–horses and riders who demonstrated why the Magyars came, saw, and conquered (but not why they lost much of the country to the Turks When we got back on the boat, I learned that Tauck’s fees are really all inclusive.\u00a0 It was take any pictures of you from the table.\u00a0 And later it was all gratuities included, even washroom fees.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reminiscences 2024 In 2008, we toured with Tauck from Budapest to the Black Sea.\u00a0 In trying to recreate that trip, I might have to include some things documented elsewhere (e.g., blog from 2009, which I reconstructed first).\u00a0 Budapest, like Vienna, was once the capital of a much larger country, especially after the creation of the … Continue reading “Hungry for Hungary?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budapest-to-the-black-sea-2008"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> Many of the additions were built around the time of the centennial of settlement by Arpad and his Magyars.\u00a0 One of the finest is the Opera House.\u00a0 It had a box for Emperor Franz Joseph.\u00a0 I’ve been there with Carolyn for Scheherazade, and with students for a Mahler symphony.\u00a0 It was on our tour.\u00a0 The sphinx-like lions guard the entrants and keep riff raff out <\/a>(sometimes).<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a>And some good Hungarian food.\u00a0 There was a big covered food court that we could not resist. Paprika rules.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a>and had to throw in their lot with the Austrians).\u00a0 The place we stopped was probably Kalocsa, known for horses, and claiming to be the “Paprika Capital of the World.”\u00a0 The latter claim is interesting, because paprika originated in Mexico.\u00a0 And the Magyars originated in the Tarim Basin.\u00a0 They met in Hungary, on the Great Hungarian Plain.<\/p>\n