Rebecca arrives at Budapest Ferihegy Airport March 10, 2007.

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Those are the names of my three lovely friends who will be visiting me in Budapest over the course of the next month. I don't have a single girlfriend, or friend for that matter, in Budapest, so I'm importing them from abroad ( Read more... )

After Rebecca graduated from Smith, she moved to Brno, Czech Republic, to teach English, and also made some friends in Bratislava, Slovakia, so we decided to take a trip to the former Czechoslovakia while she was here. Bratislava, or Pozsony as the Hungarians call it, was once the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, but the Treaty of Trianon after ( Read more... )

We made a few day trips when Rebecca was here. We traveled to Esztergom, Visegrad and Szentendre, three historical towns northwest of Budapest along The Danube Bend ( Read more... )

We were sitting around with Rebecca, smoking on the balcony and heard music blaring at the campground next door. I imagined a weathered, log cabin bar crowded with German and French woodsmen, dancing to Hungarian folk music on their summer vacations. We found nothing, but opted to continue our pursuit of Budapest nightlife. We took the bus down to ( Read more... )

Rebecca arrived last Thursday and we've been having a hoot of a time. We're leaving for Bratislava, Slovakia, in an hour, but I'll be able to write more about our adventures when we return to Budapest tomorrow night.

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