Stealing a peaceful moment in bustling Budapest:
Where Vienna is order, Budapest is frenzy. If the Viennese tend to be slightly undemonstrative and reserved, in Budapest emotions seem to bubble to the surface, where they spill over. While German (at least to this Western eye and ear) seems logical and somewhat decipherable, Hungarian Magyar is nearly impenetrable. It's closest linguistic relative is, after all, Finnish.
All this is to say that in my too-brief two-day stay, I fell completely in love with this strange, hectic, and beautiful city.
