Budapest, today, look and feel like any European city, very relaxed and western looking. Coffee drinking and cafe scenes are thriving, hard to imagine not too long ago, cafes were outlawed and people running coffee kiosks were put into jail. Eastern Europe recently celebrated 20 years after the fall of communism. I went on Youtube and watched some videos of the execution of the Ceausescus of Rumania, quite chilling. Towards the end they looked like 2 peasants, it's hard to think of them as being powerful people but the power they wielded was real. Maybe the populace allowed themselves to be manipulated, being lazy they think they needed to be oppressed.
I bought 2 mini bottles of Palinka, one of cherry, the other of plum. It is like pure alcohol, I still have 1 full bottle and half of the other bottle left. No one wants to drink it in my house. I bought them because they looked so pretty. This is a statue of Sisi, or Empress Elizabeth, the patron of Hungary. When Hungary was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Sisi spent a lot of time in Hungary.
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