Unlike some of my friends who never left the town or even the street of their childhood, I came a long way from my hometown.

Subsequently, I become a Prague-based foreign correspondent for Hungarian newspapers. After the 1948 Communist take-over ... The ship passed by the Statue of Liberty at sunrise.

Now living in Montreal, I was born and spent the first almost 20 years of my life in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary ... down to erect a statue of Stalin during the Communist-era years.

Some sources categorise it as being the Eastern Bloc; in other words, only including countries that were Communist during ... visited more than any other. The Hungarian capital is an effortless ...

Additionally, the four gryphon statues symbolically guarding the building ... it was dismantled during the Communist era for ideological reasons since most units of the Hungarian Army participated in ...

Subsequently, I became a Prague-based foreign correspondent for Hungarian newspapers. After the 1948 Communist take-over of the country ... The ship passed by the Statue of Liberty at sunrise. We ...

AD: Death of Roman Empress Agrippina aged 43 – possibly murdered by her son Nero. 1026: Conrad II crowns himself ...

👉 Pro tip: If visiting around lunchtime, grab some traditional Hungarian Lángos from the nearby uber-authentic ... an 1851 fortification overlooking the city, the Liberty Statue (or Freedom Statue), ...