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Hungary Picture by Hank Shiffman
Travel story: Budapest, Hungary

Travel for a while and you learn an important lesson: treat guidebooks with an attitude somewhere between skepticism and outright contempt. Their job is to make a destination sound interesting and attractive, while avoiding the slippery slope that leads to outright fiction. (And sometimes their maps leave reality far behind.) So when my guidebook to Budapest spoke of the city in the most glowing of terms I was hopeful but prepared for some amount of disappointment.



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