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Dang - all that because the guy was selling racks of mushrooms from Estonia? Imagine if the Finnish police were around here in Southern California, where street vendors routinely walk up and down residential streets selling tamales out of a stolen Home Depot shopping cart, cooked three days ago in a repurposed bathtub in abuelito's backyard.
Sunny Southern California native here - thanks for the info! Not at all prepared for that, but I've no intention of moving back to anywhere in Europe for a long while. Lived there for eight years after graduating from high school, had enough of the four seasons. When it dips below 70 here, I put on a sweater and feel nice and cozy.
Don't know how you all do it. Are the booze cruises to Sweden still operating?
Presov, Poprad, Roznava, Malacky, Bardejov, Orazsky Podzamok, Lucenec appear as other worthy national choices.
Slovakia used be part of Czech Republic for quite a while. Up to 1993.
Budapest Hungary is within fast proximity from most of Slovakia. Just like Vienna Austria. With car/bus.
Europe wins on these fast, convenient, affordable land border crossings. With a bus ride. Even Asia, Middle East are more isolated. Relatively rare in those other Continents.
Yes all of those places are well worth visiting and Slovakia as such is an extremely beautiful country in my humble view .
Come to think of it , while I do believe that I wrote of finding Romania to be the most beautiful European country in another thread , I'm seriously having second thoughts since it's really only Transylvania that I find to be breathtakingly beautiful as opposed to ( f.ex ) Northern Dobruja .
Of course this is all subjective rambling on my part , so there's that as well .
For Online Posters that went to Hungary(Magyarorszag), is the country Decentralized enough outside of Budapest? Especially for tourism?
By decentralized do you mean that are rail lines set up in such a way that you can avoid going through the capital when traveling from one end of the country to the other ?
The Christmas tradition is still quite strong in Finland. There's already a lot of decorations at peoples windows and balconies, in December it escalates with Christmas trees at plazas, shopping centres and parks. I don't mind, it gives a little light to the bleak landscape, as a matter of fact I'm hoping for snow.
For Online Posters that went to Hungary(Magyarorszag), is the country Decentralized enough outside of Budapest? Especially for tourism?
Yes. There are lots of great places to visit outside of Budapest. Hungary is probably still a very capitol-centric country (I'm just guessing since my last visit was in 2010 if I remember correctly), in terms of how legislation and infrastructure always favors the denizens of BP.
Hungary's own official language isn't even close to Latinized Romanian(Almost Spanish lol), or Soviet Slavic Ukrainian. Maybe even very separate from Czechoslovakian Polish, or Croatian, Serbian Yugoslavian. Quite native unique isolation. Even if landlocked.
Hungarian is officially part of the Finno-Ugric language family , though I must warn you that saying that to certain Hungarians may result in them launching into a passionate tirade about how that is a lie cooked up by Habsburg court historians in order to falsify Hungarian history .
Setting all issues of linguistic controversy aside though , Hungarian is indeed a rather difficult language to learn for a native monolingual English speaker IMO , in fact I ended up being the only person who didn't drop out of the Hungarian language course the company I was working for arranged for all of its Budapest based employees back in 2005-2008 .
That said it's well worth learning Hungarian if you like to read/have the patience for it , since it will grant you the ability to read a bunch of criminally underrated literary works IMHO .
^ Personally I'm indifferent towards Hungarian - it doesn't sound as amazing to me as say Italian, Japanese but compared to Russian for example at least I'm not thinking about suicide each time I hear it. A decade ago me and a friend visited Budapest for a Rammstein concert and 80% of the people seemed to speak English, these days I bet it's even more.
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