had lunch at the infamous Gundel (art nouveau building and restaurant since 1896) in Budapest today--very old world--but ok and finished with a 1964 Tokaj!!--the baths here are great, i dont think i will see much of the city besides restaurants and my hotels mineral baths (there are 140 mineral baths in budapest and my hotel/baths were also built in the late 1800's)
I keep thinking you are going to be back in NYC and then you post from some even crazier place. Budapest? When will this trip end? We need you here in the Rotten Apple. Beautiful weather today (best day of the summer?) if you need any reports from the home front to tempt you back.
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- Skinny 8-17-2000 7:01 pm
I keep thinking you are going to be back in NYC and then you post from some even crazier place. Budapest? When will this trip end? We need you here in the Rotten Apple. Beautiful weather today (best day of the summer?) if you need any reports from the home front to tempt you back.
- jim 8-17-2000 7:39 pm [add a comment]
i dont know. mineral baths are sounding pretty good to me. i say 'stay the course!' america, leave it and love it.
- dave 8-17-2000 11:29 pm [add a comment]
As per Uncle Charlie here in my office, Hungary was occupied by the Turks for 150 years starting in 1526. They left their bath coulture behind. There were plenty of springs around the area already to provide a great coctail of water, heat and minerals. They do a therapy there where in you are up to your neck in a whirlpool suspended by supports under your arm pits and they have weights arround your ankles and your feet don't touch bottem. This relieves a lifetime of comperssion on your spine and leaves one a renewed if not longer person. He also mentioned that one of the Gundel heirs, a rotund woman, demolished one of his chairs on a visit to his house in Statin Island NY. and that the Gundel restaurant was sold by the family a while back to one of the owners of NYC's Four Seasons. gooday.
- bill 8-18-2000 6:36 pm [add a comment]
sold to George Lang owner of Cafe des Artists (fyi)
- Skinny 8-18-2000 10:28 pm [add a comment]