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O and Vikram - Budapest is fantastic, even if that grouch Kirsty Wark didn't like the gulasz. Don't leave your bags unattended at Keleti pu. station though.
If you do Budapest you can also do both Vienna and Bratislava in the same trip - the short train journey between Budapest and Bratislava takes you along a heart-shaped route on the Donau, and Vienna is only a further hour away by boat or train. I'd get a tent and rucksack and do things the old-fashioned way - luxury hotels would just spoil the experience.
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Barcelona is fantastic, anyone thinking about Barcelona should go to Barcelona. There is great food, fantastic cava, nice beach and incredible architecture.
I've been to Morocco - Agadir, Essaouira and Marrakech as long as you avoid Agadir I thought it was a fascinating country and would recommend it. It is hot and dusty and they all seem to mainline mint tea but again there is a fasincating sense of history and culture and if you go out of peak season and avoid agadir the rest of the western population trying to get a taste of old world are kept to a minimum.
quote:Originally posted by vikram: as it happens it was that very programme that sparked an interest for budapest in me!
Aha! You'll only appreciate it once you hear it when you are there, but hearing the distinctive Budapest railway station announcement jingle on that programme brought back memories of my taking on the resident station chess grand master for the princely sum of 200 Forint.
I gave him a decent game, but inevitably lost.
The jingle is played at every Hungarian railway station - hearing it over a loudspeaker at a distance of 300 yards in some obscure ten-syllabled location in the east of the country at half past three in the morning is pretty surreal. I guess this all sounds somewhat odd, but you really have to be there...
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quote:Originally posted by doc d: detroit its more of a homage to electronica (ha ha see what i did there). i know its shitty, i know that nobody really gets what's being done by the musicians there, but i would like to be the geek of all geeks and go and see how/where/why/what. plus its the home of the mc5.
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