The Budapest Companion

A gilded Parliament on the Danube, thermal baths steaming into the night, and a bowl of goulash --- two cities, one river, with room to make it yours. The Budapest Companion's signature chapter takes on a question most visitors never think to ask: How the Thermal Baths Actually Work. Budapest sits on hundreds of natural hot springs, and the bathing ritual built around them has its own logic once you know the flow.