Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Me & Shakedown Bear in the Chesscom Hotel, Budapest

[a brief recap before reaching the present]

EDITORIAL NOTE-Serbian keyboards don`t acknowledge the existence of apostrophes.  At least, this one doesn`t.  It also doesn`t feature the ideograms the kes claim they do.]


Hungarians love the tourist dollar/euro/pound.  What they don`t love is tourist questions.

e.g.
1. Lady at Tourist Info Desk, Budapest Airport
2. Bus Driver
3. 2 folks at newstand in train station
4. Infor Desk fellow, train station
5. Hotel front desk bloke (I`ve been him and answered many a repeated question in my 6 years there)
6. Restaurant waiter
7. Tourist Office Ladies
8. Internet cafe girl

Some simply didn`t answer/didn`t/claimed they didn`t speak English.  Those who did answer my question(s) all answered the same thing--
``On Ferencick Square`` or, alternately, `` On Vorosmarty Square``... I sincerely believe that if you double/tripled your questions and threw in a ``Where`s Osmam bin Laden?`` the answer would be ... you guessed it:  ``On the Square.``

Also, if you are dreary tired, hot, hungry, and mapless, Budapest is not the city to attempt navigating.  Even if you`ve been here before.

Seriously.  Don`t.


~*~

PS  Discovered the ' & " !  Yay!

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