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3 May.
Bistritz.
--Left Munich at 8:35 P.
M.
, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning;
should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from
the glimpse which I got of it from...
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1
(Kept in shorthand)
3 May.
Bistritz.
--Left Munich at 8:35 P.
M.
, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning;
should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from
the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets.
I feared
to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as
possible.
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western
of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the
traditions of Turkish rule.
We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh.
Here I stopped for the night
at the Hotel Royale.
I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red
pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
(Mem.
get recipe for Mina.
) I asked the waiter, and he
said it was called "paprika hendl," and that, as it
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