Looking for a Different Destination? Think About Hungary.
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Looking for a Different Destination? Think About Hungary.

I’ve made two trips to Hungary and both were fascinating, although in a couple of very different ways. The first time was in the mid-1980s when Hungary was still in the Russian sphere. We were traveling there by train, and had our first taste of a repressive society at the Austro-Hungarian border. Armed soldiers entered…

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After spending several days in Budapest, we rented a small – very small – car and spent the next ten days visiting several other towns and cities. I think my favorite was Eger, to the northeast of Budapest. It’s been a while, but I remember three things about Eger very clearly. First was a minaret…