Product Description

The ultimate insider's guide to Budapest. Complete with foolproof maps, plans and practical information. Andras Torok invites the traveller to participate in the spirit - alternatively charming, grandiose, and lyrical - of one of Europe's most beautiful and fascinating cities. This edition has been extensively revised and updated. "A humorous and intimate book." - The New York Times; "Enthusiastic and irreplaceable." - Times Literary Supplement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #977928 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-30
• Original language: Hungarian
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

the best guide book to Budapest if you want to really know
If you are going to Budapest for more than a day, you have to buy this book. I am a bit of a connoisseur of guide books, so I brought a few with me to Budapest. All of them included walks, but only this book had walks that made you feel like you were understanding what makes Budapest tick. All of the guide books talked about what to do, but only Mr. Torok carefully tells you what people in Budapest do, and what tourists in Budapest do. We carried this book around with us everywhere. I also carried the Eyewitness Budapest guide with me for its pretty pictures. If you buy one book, I suggest Torok's guide; and if you buy two, one has to be Torok's guide. Buy a couple books on Budapest, you can always sell it here on Amazon when you get back.

A unique city experience
I came across this little gem in a small bookstore while strolling down Andrassy Ut. in Budapest. It's essentially a loving and learned essay on the city slyly disguised as a guidebook. Of course he's got the requisite walking maps, addresses and practical information, but what he really does is to capture the soul of the city and its denizens, past and present. It's clear that his evocative observations and opinions, laced with wit and candor could only have come from one clever guy who's truly lived the life in Budapest. You'll read every page of this book as though it were a novel.

Walk the walk Budapest style
What better to accompany a visit to Budapest than someone like Andras Torok, a person who knows Budapest inside out, from top to bottom, and then som. Well actually the next best thing is this book, which is just brilliant. As the books back cover blurb goes Torok is a cross between an Egon Ronay and a Samuel Pepys, but this only does him scant justice. The key thing to follow from thise book are the recommended walks - I did them all, they are fantastic, and the book contains stacks of information about what to look at, what to look out for, what to do, eat, drink, listen to and just idly observe.

Great job Mr Andras Torok! take my hat off to you Sir!

regards,

martyn_jones@iniciativas.com