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  • Budapest & Its Surroundings

  • Travel Adventures
  • By: Dante Mena
  • Narrated by: Adrienne Ellis
  • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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Budapest & Its Surroundings

By: Dante Mena
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Here is a brand new second edition that has been fully updated. The author is a long-time resident of Budapest, who knows the region intimately and takes us behind the scenes to discover its best features the sights, the places to stay and eat, the shopping, and all the activities. Millions of people every year hike into, bike, drive, or climb into the green valleys and limestone mountain ridges of Hungary s national parks and the hills. Storks, eagles, wrens, blackbirds, woodpeckers, and flocks of thousands make their home in forests, grasslands, and cliff-sides. Majestic antlered stags and deer range the forest. Fresh springs and cold clear creeks tumble down from the mountains. The author takes us there. There are thousands of restaurants and virtually every type of cuisine. Hotels and nightspots are just as numerous and the author guides us to the best of them all.

As you walk through the Budapest, you will find literally thousands of statues and monuments. Rose-tinted sunsets and shadowed romance reflect on the Danube, mirroring this city, which has been called the Paris of Eastern Europe and The Pearl of the Danube. The home of two million of the nation's 10 million people, it is the center of Hungary's culture, science, industry, and government. There are three basic areas: Buda (including Gellert Hill and Castle Hill), Pest (including District 5 - also known as the Belvaros, and City Park), and Obuda (the largest Roman ruins outside of Rome). Before Christ, fearsome Celts occupied Gellert Hill, the central mountain whose mammoth like shoulders rise from the Danube shore to dominate Buda (site of the imposing Citadel, Freedom Statue, Gellert Statue, lookout points, winding paths, and bathhouses). Late in the first century AD the Romans marched in to establish Aquincum, the capital of the province of Pannonia. North of Gellert Hill, in what is today Obuda, it is the site of extensive Roman ruins.

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Tedious

There is some good information in here, BUT....

Reading out web addresses makes this NOT easy to listen to. w-w-w-dot-forward slash-something in Hungarian that I can't spell-forward slash-one-three-one etc.... My Hungarian isn't good enough to type in the correct web address using Hungarian words! Perhaps the new version of this listen to book should leave out these web addresses and use a pdf instead?

Also, giving details of restaurants and prices etc can become out of date very quickly.

If there's a paper book, buy it, but think twice about this audio book!

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