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'Bruderscaft' Sneezing in Budapest | Vitali Vitaliev | Hungary, Budapest, Budapest

"Ah-tishoo!" I was woken by my own sneeze and realised, with horror, that I had the 'flu. I looked out of the window. It was early morning. My train - 'Pannonia Express' - was stationary. A sign with a frightening word 'Szekesfehervar' was in front of me. A station name like that could exist only in one country - Hungary.

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'Hallo' and Goodbye | Ben Mallalieu | Hungary, Budapest, Budapest

Going to Hungary for their royal train service, Mallalieu finds a country speaking their own language, but only barely succeeding

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Budapest | Simon Busch | Hungary, Budapest, Budapest

A visit to the statue park is memorable not only for the bitter-sweet atmosphere of failed utopianism emanated by these monuments, like the last surviving beasts of a redundant species corralled in a zoo

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Budapest: The Shock of the Old | Neville Walker | Hungary, Budapest, Budapest

I drove into the city as a rosy dusk was settling over it, my destination a hotel on the riverbank facing directly the city’s famously extravagant parliament building

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The Baths of Budapest | Dea Birkett | Hungary, Budapest, Budapest

Aaaaah. Mmmmm. I was in ecstasy. My body felt exquisite, my limbs as loose a rag doll's. My skin was as soft as a Persian carpet. I was indulging in the torrid heat of a thermal bath...

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The Many-Hued Danube | John Borthwick | Hungary, Budapest, Budapest

The dining options veer from veal paprikash to, well, Burger a la King. Meanwhile, the background music might be Franz Liszt or a busker doing goulash Johnny Cash. Oddly, nowhere do I hear the Blue Danube Waltz

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