Friday, March 5, 2010

Hungarian Idiosyncracies

"I don't know anything" woman in Tourism office

Asking where the Ferry left from to be shown an inland railway station.

It's rude to chink beer glasses because the Austrians and Russians did it when dividing up the country.

The Holy right hand of Hungarys patron saint is on display and can be lit up for 200 Florets.

Allowing derelict buildings awaiting development to be used as really cool pubs.

The language is not Indo-Aryan meaning the last time Germanic/Latin/Hellenic/Slavic/Baltic etc... speakers spoke the same language was Babel.

1 comment:

  1. lighting up the withered hand of St Stephen was one of my favourite parts of Budapest!!

    Looking forward to catching up when you get home :)

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