Is anyone reading this in Budapest?
Nyugati station, from the National Geographic
We’re thinking of going in May and want to know if this is a good time.
Budapest because:
1. We’ve never been there.
2. Patrick Leigh Fermor walked to there from Holland (Though we’re taking the train from Trieste to Vienna to Budapest, making it a Vestiges of the Hapsburg Empire tour. Last year we traced the Nazi advance backwards).
3. We’ve read some Hungarian novels in translation and Hungary sounds so civilized.
4. The Lubitsch movie The Shop Around the Corner is set in Budapest.
5. A friend of ours went there many years ago and when he pronounces it “Buda-pesht” we roll our eyeballs but are secretly envious.
6. Every time we’re in Juan’s house we hear that Budapest song by the guy who writes songs named after cities (Barcelona, Amsterdam; we’re waiting for Srebrenica, Addis Ababa, Macchu Picchu) and like the properly insane interpret it as a sign.
7. We’ve seen Bela Tarr movies and while we can’t claim to understand them, we finished them.
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