SPLASH & GRAB
Budapest is justly famous for its
thermal baths. Lucy Mallows
finds out about the etiquette of
taking a dip ? Hungarian-style
Two liquid experiences that make Budapest a destination with a diff erence come courtesy of the Ottoman Empire: the coff ee houses and the thermal baths. Although the inventive Hungarian mind can claim many things (Rubik?s cube, vitamin C, biros and the hydrogen bomb, among others) as its idea, two of Budapest?s main tourist attractions can be attributed to the Turks. Buda was once home to 26 mosques. Today only the baths remain from the former imarets (inns or hospices). Situated along the Danube, these are (from south to north) the Rudas, R
