From'Sils we are going via Vienna to Budapest for a week, to visit
Elisabeth's sister and brother-in-law; £T nd in that connection I should
like to ask you a favor if it is not too)much of an imposition. The
pleasantest way of going from Vienna tp Budapest is on the Danube by
hydrofoil; and there is one, leavings Vienna around 2 or 3 p.m. every
day, which arrives in Budapest andund 7 p.m. No travel agent around here
is able to make a reservationr/yet I am told that in Vienna that can
easily be done by phoning the Hungarian travel agency (IBUSZ) in the
Karntnerstrasse and mailing them a check in Austrian Schillings.
If it really is that simple and not too much of an imposition, would you
do us the favor of buying us two tickets for the hydrofoil that leaves
Vienna for Budapest on the afternoon of Thursday, August 4? But if it
is too much trouble, please let me know and I shall figure out some
other arrangemervtSuTY
I hope you continue to be in good health and we are still hoping to
have a chance of seeing you this coming summer. Elisabeth is sending
you her best regards and I am sending mine.
Yours ever.
P.S. Since writing the above, I learned from a friend that I can
deal myself with the whole problem of the hydrofoil tickets by
writing directly to the Vienna office of the IBUSZ. Accordingly,
I am doing that, so please forget about the crossed out passage above.