Budapest Booked

For me, ‘booking’ a holiday involves more than selecting a destination, picking a hotel and securing the flights – all that was done a week ago – or buying the guide book – the DK Eyewitness guide to Budapest was purchased last Saturday – the tricky bit is choosing the right reading book to take along, which not only has to while away the travelling time but also be a good match for the location, but today I found ‘They Were Counted’ by Miklos Banffy, 600+ pages and apparently a Hungarian classic set during the latter part of the nineteenth century, described as a cross between Tolstoy and Trollope (what’s not to like); it is also book one of a trilogy so I may need a couple more visits to Budapest to complete the saga.