{"id":9004,"date":"2010-11-22T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/back_from_budapest.html"},"modified":"2010-11-22T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T11:58:08","slug":"back-from-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/back-from-budapest.html","title":{"rendered":"Back from Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from Budapest, Hungary and it was a great trip and I met met lots of great people &#8211; many readers thankfully at the Dialogic Connections Conference. Jim Machi at Dialogic was nice enough to write up the conference and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dialogic.com\/den\/blogs\/corporate\/archive\/2010\/11\/19\/budapest-dialogic-emea-connections-and-how-our-industry-doesn-t-really-change-while-it-s-changing.aspx\">include me<\/a> in his piece.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the fact I like to talk a lot makes people think I should be in politics&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smile\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/TinyMCE\/lib\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/smiley-smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Smile\" \/> but strangely my wife says I don&#8217;t talk enough &#8211; I&#8217;m still trying to figure that one out.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Budapest and travel there &#8211; here is what you need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The weather seems similar to New England.<\/li>\n<li>There are many gorgeous buildings, statues and castles worth seeing.<\/li>\n<li>99% of people speak English.<\/li>\n<li>They are very friendly and many people asked me how I like their country and one person even asked me to bring my business there.<\/li>\n<li>The food is good &#8211; I ate some sort of mountain animal &#8211; a sheep or goat or something called a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=mouflon&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US336\">mouflon<\/a> which was great.<\/li>\n<li>Be sure to go to a restaurant called Spoon &#8211; basically a floating establishment in a ship and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nileguide.com\/destination\/szentendre-hungary-182\/restaurants\/aranysarkany-vendeglo-golden-dragon-inn\/904233\">Golden Dragon<\/a> in the art district in <span class=\"locality\">Szentendre<\/span> &#8211; an hour or so from Budapest by train.<\/li>\n<li>There are lots of free and open WiFi APs everywhere and the 3G is pretty fast as well.<\/li>\n<li>You can also get hot wine and cider all over the place and a bus tour is a must.<\/li>\n<li>Unemployment is around 30% but it seems like a very safe place.<\/li>\n<li>The currency is not part of the Euro &#8211; they use a Forint which is very inflated and a hotel stay at a top location can cost as low as $150. One dollar is worth over 200 Hungarian Forints BTW.<\/li>\n<li>And no, I didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/4g\/dialogic-connections-2010-live-blog.html\">see<\/a> Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justjared.buzznet.com\/2010\/11\/14\/angelina-jolie-from-budapest-to-bosnia\/\">Angelina Jolie: From Budapest to Bosnia<\/a> (justjared.buzznet.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkisthenewblog.com\/2010\/11\/the-brangelina-bunch-play-in-a-park-in-budapest\/\">The Brangelina Bunch Play In A Park In Budapest<\/a> (pinkisthenewblog.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/omg.yahoo.com\/news\/jolie-pitt-twins-enjoy-a-day-out-in-budapest\/49478\">Jolie-Pitt Twins Enjoy a Day Out in Budapest<\/a> (omg.yahoo.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/perezhilton.com\/2010-10-25-brangelina-out-with-the-kids-sightseeing-in-budapest-hungary\">Brangelina Out With The Kids In Budapest!<\/a> (perezhilton.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from Budapest, Hungary and it was a great trip and I met met lots of great people &#8211; many readers thankfully at the Dialogic Connections Conference. Jim Machi at Dialogic was nice enough to write up the conference and include me in his piece. Apparently the fact I like to talk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,168,179,181,172,196,199,189,211,118,177,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}