Staying at a swanky hotel in Budapest in 2015, the plan was to experience one of Hungary’s most important race meetings of the year, but I was equally interested in seeing some of the capital’s most important record shops. No guide book seemed to have much to say about such an important part of the local cultural scene
So, how to find out? Plucking up my courage I decided to ask one of the impeccably attired, stuffy-looking reception staff whether they could help. I sidled up to one of the elderly gents manning the desk, currently writing in a ledger. He looked me up and down, and asked slowly, emphasising the second word he spoke somewhat doubtfully, I felt: