Originally Posted by
geoffsb
We’ll look back on 2009 as the time when the world economy seemed in danger of total collapse. There can’t be many people on the planet who have escaped the effects of this financial devastation.
Well, in all friendliness, in that case your planet seems a bit limited.

It has also been business as usual for me, but then I may have a perspective of quite a few economic downturns over the decades. Unfortunately...

If the downturn will be limited to 2009, then I will be very happy.
However, this is the trip report forum, and it was nice to hear about Budapest, a city I have neglected for over 15 years. I wanted to ask you about Gundel, is the service still as superb as it was shortly after the post-communist revival of this landmark restaurant? Did they play any live music at Christmas lunch by any chance?