Happy New Year from Budapest

And the same from Colorado to you, James.

I figured that was you. Eat a Zippy burger for me.
Happy New Year to you and Paty.

Sprinkle some paprika around town for me.
Wishing you a fantastic 2018!
Thanks for your many helpful contributions to this forum.

Eat one of those delicious Chimney cakes for me

Happy New Year from Seattle. James, have some goulash (real one), chabayka (don't know how to spell in Hungarian) and you certainly toasted New Year with Barackovica.

Happy New Year, James, and thanks for all the knowledge and goodwill you share on this board. We loved Budapest and it's fun to think of you there now.

Happy New Year to you from Canada! Budapest is now on my list because of all your great posts... enjoy your time there!

Happy New Year from Pittsburgh. Brr, its cold!

Happy New Year, James. 2018 brings my long-awaited maiden trip to Budapest! Maybe I'll see you there in June!!

Happy New Year James. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of your adopted city so freely. Maybe/hopefully see you in September.

Happy New Year to you from Calif. Maybe I'll get back to BP in May, doing the trip planning presently.

Happy New Year from Frankfurt! The fireworks went on until 02:00 in our neighborhood.

Boldog Uj Evet, James! May you and yours have a wonderful New Year!

G-d Bless us all this year. Sounds as though if you weren't in Persia or a Landrover, or parked next to a Landrover, it was a peaceful New Year.

Thoughts and prayers to those in Iran.

Happy Travels in 2018!

Aaah, so near and yet so far away. Best wishes for many happy trails in the coming year.

An excellent reminder:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/20/nicolae-one-hundred-million/#.WkiDUV48xX5.twitter

Another frosty happy new year from Pittsburgh! Budapest keeps moving up the list of places to go next, thanks primarily to you, James.

Wishing for peace and civility in 2018.

Happy new year to you, James E!! We are planning our next trip, which may be to Turkey/Bulgaria/Albania in May

Happy New Year, and enjoy the balmy weather. Where we are it's a frigid -23!

Happy Gnu Year from sunny and warm So Cal. That short article was spot on . . .thanks for sharing. Due to your passion about Budapest, I visited in 2013. It's been too long. A return is in the works, either in November of this year or summer 2019.

Great article, James. To achieve communism for believing communists (many of them did not believe - they were just opportunists) was like for religious people get to heaven. Communist ideas on paper are sanitized, idealistic - let's go for utopia. A lot of young people are prone to believe it. The best antidote is to experience it.

The reality of communism is fading. For my younger children, born in 1990, they have never lived in a world with the CCCP as a force of evil and oppression. Germany has always been a united country. Yugoslavia has mostly never existed.

When in Budapest, a visit to the House of Terror is an important stop for young people. It's almost too sanitized.

"Communist, ie Marxist-Leninist ideas on paper are sanitized, idealistic...." How true! Add messianic too. Yes, the promise of utopia, the "brave new world." based on slogans and somehow, just somehow, the state will wither away.

James,

Happy New Year to you also! It looks like your weather is better than what we're getting here. In addition to a fair amount of snow, temperatures have been down to about -12C at night.

Budapest has been on my list for awhile, and hopefully I'll get there in the near future.