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Budapest: Now More Than Ever!

We were never as enamored with Budapest as with Prague--it's tough being the ugly sister--but we can recognize that Budapest deserves a fairer shake in the New York Times than this. While this is ostensibly an article about how far the Hungarian capital has come in the days when people went there and wished they were eating, uh, Czech knedliky instead of chicken with paprika, it comes off as rather out-of-touch: There are malls! There aren't as many weird scams anymore! People come here from Vienna, not on the way to Prague!

Great, that's certainly true, but of course they take credit cards--Hungary's part of the EU, and has been since 2004. Bucharest--with a delightful combination of inexpensive adventure and feral dogs--may be "stealing some of Prague's spotlight", but we're sure that Budapest is capable of standing on its own merits by now.

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