Budapest
About Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is Hungary's primate city with 1.7 million inhabitants and its greater metro area has a population of about 3.3 million, representing one-third of the country's population and producing above 40% of the country's economic output. Budapest is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, among the ten largest cities in the European Union and the second largest urban area in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest stands on the River Danube and is strategically located at the center of the Pannonian Basin, lying on ancient trade routes linking the hills of Transdanubia with the Great Plain.
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There's a slightly mysterious Peter Falk statue sitting in a street in Budapest. No one's quite sure why it's there. It was built about three years after his death — it just suddenly was there.
from 74: No Such Thing As A Computer In The Oval Office, 2015-08-14 at 00:19:48 · read transcript
Other times Budapest came up
That feels like quite a personal, that's a bit of a sub-tweet on Proust himself, isn't it? That's what he was a little bit like. It was a little bit, yeah. I think they were more slugging off the entire city of Budapest. Proust's sort of habits when he was writing. He went to bed in 1909, and he basically stayed there until 19, I think, 22. 22, I think he's 19.
460: No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-06 · listen
Probably, yeah, probably the math doesn't stack up. I've been to a rival spa as well. I've been to one in Budapest. Budapest has the most thermal spas in the whole of mainland Europe. Some more in Reckievich, but in mainland Europe, they have it. Unfortunately, when I went there, I'd left my swimming costume in the hotel and so I thought, well, I'll just buy one when I get there, but they only rent them.
No Such Thing As Tiddlywinks In The Wild West, 2022-02-25 · listen
It's probably Laszlo as well. Laszlo Biro, I think. I think it's Biro. Probably. He was Hungarian. He was born in Budapest. Right. He was Hungarian. Then he moved to Argentina. This is a really weird thing also about the way he invented it. He had to flee the Nazis and he went to Argentina partly because he'd had a chance encounter on a beach with a fellow holiday maker and told him about this great invention he had.
129: No Such Thing As Jack The Stripper, 2016-09-02 · listen
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