Hangover and late start after our cray-z night out at the Ruin pub, led us to get a fire-roasted dough roll thing called a Kürtoskalács, also known as chimney cake. It’s a traditional Hungarian pastry that originated in Transylvania, I’m told. It’s made with dough strips glazed with sugar over a fire. After it’s toasted it’s rolled in toppings like sugar, cinnamon, or nuts. We got ours with cinnamon! Oh it was GOOD! After a couple blah blah shopping stops for Robyn (who is looking for overpriced Hungarian perfumes which cause a person to smell like rotten peaches), we were off to do some real Budapest stuffs. Fortunately for my nose, they were out of the rotten perfume, so Robyn is a little richer and I have narrowly escaped a fruity headache. We took the underground
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