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The saintly history of Margaret Island. A bit less than a square kilometer in size, Margit-sziget, as it’s called in Hungarian, is not only popular for visitors but is among the most popular places for local Budapesti to visit when …

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Well, friends, this is it. My last full day in Budapest or, I should say, in Pest because while I’ll cross part of the Danube, it will only be as far as Margaret Island and not all the way to …

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On the Beautiful Blue Danube. I’ll start this section with these questions: Does my header for this section have you hearing this? And if you weren’t hearing it before, is it an ear worm now? I am not, as Barbara …