Budapest seems to be a city of huge contrasts without much demarcation. Obviously there will be posh areas where no poor people are seen and definetely there will be less desirable areas where so called civilised people would fear to tread.....but in the main city districts every kind of life seems to sit cheek by jowl. Within a few metres there will be a majestically completely roccoco expensive hotel ....2 metres down or into the road will be a homeless streetperson asleep on a bench outside a rather dubious potentially seedy looking bar or cheap takeaway joint. Next door will be a grand public building for example the opera house surronded by strip bars and cheap secondhand clothes shops with the most unbelievably uninspiring window displays. Streets change within feet and inches from lively restaurant and bar areas well lit up in to wee smelling dark and dingy oily looking pavements and then back again. The same happens up wards. Amoung the plethora of bridal...