Budapest is one of my most favorite places of all. The architecture is some of the best in the world, there’s a mix of cultures from Austria-Hungary to Turks to Magyars. Everything I ate there was delicious. Great public transit. Turkish-style baths everywhere. Fun boat tour on the Danube river, separating Buda and Pest.

Good to visit as an American, too. At immigration most foreigners were being fingerprinted and questioned for long periods of time. When they saw my US passport they just waved me through.

Only real complaint is that all written words in Budapest are in Hungarian, a language I have absolutely zero chance of ever learning or understanding. It belongs to the Uralic family along with Finnish and Estonian, containing basically no relation to any other Greek, Latin, Romance, or Slavic tongues or words. Besides the unfortunate language it’s a great place.