Hungary [antikvár]

We are very glad to greet you in Hungary. We hope that thisshort guide will be a great help for you while expioring this country. It is just a few sentences that we teli you here about the major cities, most pleasant holiday places, industrial centres, historical sights and beauty spots of Hungary. Just a few sentences, to which your personal impressions will be added and give a full picture to be remem-bered for long. You must have heard or read about the fame of Hungárián cuisine and Hungárián drinks. The menu card of all the major hotels and restau-rants offers you dishes prepared to English and French taste as prescrib-ed by the rules of international cooking but you may take your choice alsó from Hungárián speciali-tiesrfish soup, veal pörkölt, planked steaks, goulash, stuffed cabbages, chicken fried in breadcrumbs and a long Iine of dainty bits deiighting the gourmet's eye and palate. Hungárián food ís said to be too rich and very spicy. As you will see it is not quite true, Hungárián cooks may use more spice than their French or English colleagues do but they never overdo it. Any healthy man can enjoy it and the friends of good food never fail to praise its merits. Hungárián drinks are equally famous, primarily Hungárián wines in which you find a rich choice varying from majestic Tokay to light table wines grown in sandy soil. The favourites among spirits are apricot and cherry brandy distilled—often at home— from fresh fruit. And now let us start on our tour beginning it with Budapest, the capi-tal of Hungary. BUDAPEST This metropolis of two millión is situated in the heart of the country, on the two banks of the river Da-nube. Pest, the downtown is fiat.