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Subscribe to RSSA car drives under frost-covered trees just outside Debrecen, 140 miles east of Budapest, Hungary, on Jan. 2.
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Budapest velodrome revived with antique car rally
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Visitors looks at the vehicles at an oval track of a velodrome during an old timer car and motorcycle show in Budapest on May 1.
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Men ride bicycles on an oval track of a velodrome during an old timer car and motorcycle show in Budapest on May 1. The event brought life again into the 412 meter long Millennial Velodrome of Budapest, which was built in 1896 and is one of the oldest arenas for track cycling in Europe.
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An elderly man rides his motobike on an oval track of a velodrome during an old timer car and motorcycle show in Budapest on May 1. The event brought life again into the 412 meter long Millennial Velodrome of Budapest, which was built in 1896 and is one of the oldest arenas for track cycling in Europe.
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Drivers drive their vehicle on an oval track of a velodrome during an old timer car and motorcycle show in Budapest on May 1. The event brought life again into the 412 meter long Millennial Velodrome of Budapest, which was built in 1896 and is one of the oldest arenas for track cycling in Europe.
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A woman driver waits besides her car near the oval track of a velodrome during an old timer car and motorcycle show in Budapest on May 1. The event brought life again into the 412 meter long Millennial Velodrome of Budapest, which was built in 1896 and is one of the oldest arenas for track cycling in Europe.
'Night of Baths' highlights benefits of thermal water in Hungary
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Bathers relax at the Rudas Bath during the "Night of Baths" in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 20. Music and dance programs take place from 10 pm until 4am at the five most popular thermal baths in Budapest during the event.
Although the thought of bacteria's tendency to grow in warm places kind of creeps me out, Rick Steves makes the public baths sound pretty appealing below. Sign me up.
From a piece by Rick Steves that msnbc.com travel ran a ways back:
Sitting in hundred-degree water under glorious Baroque domes, I felt my stress ebb away as I enjoyed some of Europe's most memorable people watching. Hungarians of all shapes and sizes were stuffed into tiny swimsuits, strutting their stuff. People floated blissfully in warm water. Speedo-clad intellectuals stood in chest-high water around chessboards and pondered their next moves. It's Budapest at its best.
Read 'Taking the Plunge in Budapest' in its entirety.
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Bathers relax at the Rudas Bath during "Night of Baths" in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 20.
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A man relaxes at the Rudas Bath during the "Night of Baths" in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 20.
Hungarians slip slide away from the heat
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A boy enjoys a water chute in Mogyorod near Budapest, Hungary, July 9. Temperatures reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Hungarian Nazi war crime suspect Sandor Kepiro sits in a wheelchair at Budapest Municipal Court before the start of the third day of his trial on May 19.
War crimes suspect, 97, declared fit for trial
AFP reports: Budapest Municipal Court ruled on Thursday that Sandor Kepiro's trial could continue after physical and mental health checks showed the 97-year-old was fit, even if very frail. He stands accused of being directly responsible for the deaths of 36 Jews and Serbs during a raid by Hungarian forces in the Serbian town of Novi Sad in January 1942. The former Hungarian gendarmerie officer was formerly number one on the list of wanted Nazi criminals by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
See previous posts on Sandor Kepiro and John Demanjuk, who was last week sentenced to five years in prison.
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People enjoy the steaming water of the Szechenyi Bath during the "Night of the Baths," a joint event of five of the Hungarian capital's historical spas in Budapest, Hungary, early morning Saturday, Feb. 19.
People soak in the "Night of the Baths" in Budapest
I don't know why, but there is something about the idea of a huge hot tub that creeps me out.
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People play chess in Szechenyi Bath during a winter morning in Budapest, Dec. 10, 2010.
Men play chess in Budapest bath
I love that this game is waterproof and came along to the bath.
Hungarian fishermen collect fish at Hortobagy
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Fish are placed in a bucket at Central Europe's biggest fish pond complex in the Great Hungarian Plain at Hortobagy.
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A Hungarian fisherman collects fish at Central Europe's biggest fish pond complex in the Great Hungarian Plain at Hortobagy, 200 km (124 miles) east from Budapest, November 30, 2010.
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A Hungarian fisherman takes a smoking break during fish collecting.
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Aerial view of a colorful autumn landscape of agricultural fields in Loerinci, northeast of Budapest, Hungary, on November 17, 2010.
Rolling fields of Hungary
Gorgeous landscape that looks like a drawing.