Tony Curtis is Hungarian

AKA Bernie Schwartz, just like Szilard and Teller who developed the A-Bomb, Johnny Von Neumann who pioneered the computer, some guy with a cube, and the founders of Paramount and Fox. But I bring up Curtis because his daughter Jamie Lee voiced a commercial where she advocated eating dinner with your kids to keep them off drugs. In it she says to have goulash and "whatever goulash goes with" like it's foreign to her even though she is Hungarian.
Anyway, it comes alone usually as a thin soup with a little bit of meat (not a stew like we think). It's not that amazing so I won't go into it here. So what else do they eat in Budapest?
This is a biscuit made with bacon called pogacsa. Actually you can get these on 2nd ave and 81st Street in New York, and they're just as good and greasy.
They also love their sour cream here (and cabbage). This is one dish I liked a lot possibly because it's one of the few rice dishes. It is called rakkott kel and is like a rice and cabbage lasagna. Below in the middle is kendra's favorite, stuffed cabbage.
For dessert this is somloi galuska which is sponge cake and a cream custard.
Here I'm getting ideas for how to run my chess club next year.

This is a monument in the center of town to Soviet war dead. It is surprising that they still have it up because there is a lot of anti-Russian sentiment here since they invaded to crush revolutions twice in 1956 and 1849.
It is right in front of the American embassy, which is why I guess they balance it with this statue in the same square of American Harry Hill Bandholtz.
He was in charge of American intervention in Hungary during the white terror that followed the short-lived 1919 Hungarian Communist government. He was also in charge of the US military's crushing of the 1920 miners' strikes in Mingo County West Virginia, which you might know from the film Matewan.

Finally, Kendra and I are coming back here for Veteran's Day.

Is Slovakia stuck in the 1970s?

As one enters the Carpathian Mountains into Slovakia, do you enter a time warp? Not exactly, because since Bratislava is right next to Vienna it is a bit of a cheesy tourist trap.
However, if you look closer you can see that these people fit the stereotypes about Eastern Europe. Here is a record store window.
Notice Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden, but the prize possession of course is Slade's 1972 album Slayed. On the topic of Slade, I came across this quote from my favorite musician Tom Jones.
"I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ass. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!" That makes me feel bad for my hero, but at the same time makes him more human.

These pictures of our hotel might not give a full understanding of how it hadn't been changed in 40 years. It is too bad that these communist era hotels are closing and being replaced by new international chains.

Hopefully you can see the white vinyl covered padded walls and the print carpet. It made you feel like you were in a classic porn film.

Here is me doing something I haven't done since the 1970s.
And finally, I suppose this slogan is timeless.