Hungary Part 5

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There's a fortress on the largest hill overlooking Budapest. Unlike most of the old fortresses I've seen – of which a few bear the scars of the beginning of the gunpowder era – this one bears marks from the last war. Huge chunks of masonry are missing round the various arrow slits and gun ports from the impacts of what must have been mortars or tank shells. Rather than the scattered, evenly spaced divots carved by muskets, the windows are surrounded by the staccato acne of fire from carbines and machine guns.

There is a restaurant and night club in the fortress now, as well as a museum that we should have visited but didn't. I failed to get a good picture of Budapest, because while it is a beautiful city it isn't particularly photogenic. I did, however, get a great picture of this statue's giant butt, and of Tegin manning an AA gun.

Scattered all over Budapest, along with the cows, are a few of these shops that sell these open-faced sandwiches. They're expensive and small, but make up what they lack in size by being attractive and quite tasty. Tegin thinks we could make a killing in the states by opening a place that sells these things, and while I agreed with her at first, I don't know about it now. Americans who are into casual snacking want, like a pancake or an ice-cream filled sausage, not a tiny sandwich with caviar on it. Americans who might be interested in a small, healthy snack generally don't do so on impulse. We're just too crazy about food in this country to simply enjoy it most of the time.

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[nemesis2207.livejournal.com]

Hey, I don't know, maybe the open sandwiches would sell... after all, sushi is doing quite good! ;)