Blog by Steve Laug
When I was preparing for my trip to Budapest I came across this great old tobacco shop. I enjoyed the video/flash presentation of the shop, its history and wares and thought I would post the link here.
Once you are on the website click on the word Belepes (If you are Hungarian, please forgive my lack of accents on the Hungarian words. I do not have the ability to add them at this point) as pictured in the screen below. That will take you to the second screen pictured below.
Or you can just click on this link http://www.gallwitz.hu/gallwitz.html and you will be taken to the screen pictured below. Once you have the screen pictured above on the website click on KEPEK UZLETUNKROL and a new screen will open with a video tour of the pipe shop. You can also click on the headings on the screen for a bit of a tour of the wares. Click on PIPAK for Pipes etc.
It is an amazing place. Having been there in person I can tell you that it met my expectations of a place filled with pipe history. Enjoy!
(You will need to have Adobe Flash installed to watch the video.)
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I went to the galwitz pipe shop in Budapest and bought 4 Hungarrian pipes and a walking stick for€ 100 am completely satisfied
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I’ve never been to Budapest, it is supposed to be a wonderful city. My mother is from Hungary. That shop looks beautiful, did you encounter many pipe smokers in Hungary?
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I saw a few on the streets and at the various shops I visited I saw quite a few – encouraging in that they were a variety of ages. There were the 20 year old through old timers in their 70s and 80s. The thing I loved about the city was its tolerance of things tobacco. The large hotel I stayed at had smoking sections for pipes and cigars as well as cigarettes. I have a sign in my pipe stuff that basically tells non-smokers to be tolerant! I loved being able to sit in the hotel restaurant and pub and load a pipe after a long day! Very nice.
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