Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
Few would have defied the imperial Ottomans army prior to the famed siege of Vienna, both as openly and as brazenly, as the Hungarian city of Eger. For the past centuries, the Turks had marched north through the Balkans towards Central Europe as if they were an unstoppable juggernaut, imposible to defeat or dislodge. With …
Arrival in Esztergom I arrived in Esztergom, via Nyugati station in Budapest. To my dismay I found out that the station is not located directly in the town center near the Basilica, although the 3km walk did afford me the privilege the to visit a very pretty, albeit decaying city. Watch out for the St. …
Along the shoreline of the Danube lies a place of legend and repute. This urban center is more romantic than Paris, more interesting than Vienna and more exiting than Berlin. The world was deprived of this city (Budapest) for over 50 years, the vile result of the Cold War. As an Iron Curtain fell over …
