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Hungary
Hungary’s central position and experience in welcoming travellers
makes it the ideal place to enter Eastern Europe. The majority of
travellers arrive in picturesque Budapest, which has a lively arts,
café and music scene, and is host to a range of cultural and
sporting festivals. To venture outside the capital is to travel
through plains, resort-lined lakes, Baroque towns, and rustic
villages. Hungary’s other attractions include sampling its quality
wines, ‘taking the waters’ in a relaxing thermal spa, or
bird-watching in some of the best spots in Europe.
Though it can be pretty wet in May and June, spring is just
glorious in Hungary. The Hungarian summer is warm, sunny and
unusually long, but the resorts are very crowded in late July and
August. Like Paris and Rome, Budapest comes to a halt in August
(called ‘the cucumber-growing season’ here because that’s about the
only thing happening). Autumn is beautiful, particularly in the
hills around Budapest and in the Northern Uplands. November is one
of the rainiest months of the year, however. Winter is cold, often
bleak and museums and other tourist sights are often closed. Animal
lovers will also want to skip this season: half the women are
draped in furry dead things throughout the winter.
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