http://www.budanest.com/wordpress/index.php Our travels here and there Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:08:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Try and Try Again We've had some learning experiences when it comes to buying wine in Europe. In the old days we were satisfied with each of us stuffing a couple of bottles in our carry on luggage. Recently this has become insufficient because a couple of bottles each ... http://www.budanest.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=11 We visited Budapest over the American Thanksgiving holiday in 2007. In doing so, we chose to forego our traditional Thanksgiving meal. It would have been odd to choose to travel and to hope for a Thanskgiving meal at the same time. Just the same, when we arrived at ... http://www.budanest.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=8 We were recommended this restaurant by some Hungarian friends who are living in Boston. This wine bar (or borpatika, in Hungarian) is a fairly new venture in Budapest and has a great location right along the Danube river on the Buda side. It is near the Chain Bridge and is ... http://www.budanest.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=7 We experienced Lou Lou on Saturday, November 24, 2007. This restaurant came to our attention because it was listed on the Top 100 restaurants in the world (Top 100 Restaurants), San Pellegrino's list. The only entries in Hungary are numbered 86 (Lou Lou) and 88 (Café Kor). We decided either ... http://www.budanest.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=5 The number one must-do thing in Budapest is to take a bath. Saying that, I've already set myself up to sound like a fool since, by making the statement, I am proclaiming some kind of expertise when, in fact, I have only been to one bath in ... http://www.budanest.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=1 Thirty five thousand was the estimated number of people packed into Piazza San Marco on December 31, 2006 but it seemd more like one million. The excitement was dense: flesh pressed at 360 degrees, Italian - unfamiliar to me but like music that night - was everywhere in the ... http://www.budanest.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=3 Even though we had read about the differences in behaviour required between various eating and drinking establishments, we managed to make a few faux pas while in Paris. For example, we stopped into a bar for a drink one night after being discouraged by quite a long line at the Eiffel ... http://www.budanest.com/wordpress/index.php/?p=4