I went to Budapest with Cyril Lagrasta when he was invited to teach an Aikido seminar. Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország), officially in English the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság listen, literally Magyar (Hungarian) Republic), is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian (also known as Magyar), which is part of the Finno-Ugric family. It is one of the four official languages of the European Union that is not of Indo-European origin.