Needless to say, the tour cost an arm and a leg, 280 pengos per person, it turned out after they made their calculations, but it was well worth it, and they decided to repeat the tour again the following year. But their dream was never realized because even the devil-may-care lawyers and doctors could feel the coming crisis, and after 1933, none of them felt very much like going to Germany. Still, of the five two managed to get as far as Mauthausen once, though they did not go by boat but mostly on foot. Pista Dick was also supposed to go with them, but a couple of weeks before they were to start off, he and his twin brother threw themselves out the fourth story window.

[The Regensburg Tour by Iván Bächer. The author is a journalist and novelist living in Budapest.]

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