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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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Hungarian Csikos | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hungarian Plains

In the dusk we heard the distant snare-drum roll of hooves. A herd on the horizon galloped towards where we stood by a water-crane, a barn and a small hut

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Hungary/Hortobágy National Park | Christopher Somerville | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hortobagy National Park

Beyond the market causeway the level grasslands of the puszta, the Great Plain of eastern Hungary, stretched away to the horizon. A big blood-red sun hung above the mists. Silhouetted against it stood one of the impassive puszta shepherds, cloaked against the morning chill

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Just Plain Riding | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hungarian Plains

A single tree, a grazing bull, even a large bird, can landmark the straight-running skyline like a sudden jump in a flat-drawn line. It makes for Europe's ultimate riding country

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Just Plain Riding | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Tisza River

You can ride all day - and that's on good horses, covering long distance - and then ride all the next day and the day after that, too, and never see a fence. Not a single strand of wire, nor one post and rail

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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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Where the Land Meets the Sky | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hungarian Plains

Theirs is an operatically flamboyant outfit; though any temptation to poke fun at the csikós' costume tends to die on the lips when one notes their three-meter, heavy-lashed whips

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