Random observations on:

Hungary and our experiences with the Hungarian people:

Public transportation is efficient but very dated
They know how to make cabbage taste amazing!
Their cuisine is delicious
Toilet paper.... Remember the brown paper towels you used in your grade school? 'Nuff said.
Hungarian people were nice to us and especially outside of Budapest, not overly accustomed to Americans
We felt very safe here, and didn't worry about our "stuff" at all
Hungarians love their techno music

Romania and our experiences with the Romanian people:

Very inexpensive (we talked abut the possibility of retiring here and living like kings!)
Wow, trains come in two styles: old, and really old
When you use the bathroom on a train, it's an open hole... You can see the tracks go by
Countryside full of people who live very simply
Industrious people who forage in the wild for walnuts, blackberries and raspberries and then sell them for their income
Toilet paper: a red shop towel's country cousin
Crazy drivers
Most Romanians, especially those not involved in tourism weren't really familiar with the United States
Romanians favorite music? Techno. Car radios, buses, taxis, restaurants... It's everywhere.

Bulgaria and our experiences with the Bulgarian people:

Great fresh salads
See "bathrooms on trains" in Romania section. The same is true in Bulgaria
Cyrillic alphabet: Challenging at first but easy to recognize letters after awhile
Crazy drivers 2
Shopska salad (cucumbers, tomatoes, green onions, parsley and Bulgarian feta) simple but so delicious
If you marry a Bulgarian woman, be prepared for her to have a better mustache than you in her later years. (they would make Tom Selleck in his Magnum PI days envious)
Street markets are exactly what they sound like... Produce for sale lying on the sidewalks and street, maybe hanging out of a bag
Ok, I know you will sense a theme here, but Bulgarians favorite music? Yup. Techno.

Turkey and our experiences with the Turkish people:

We love turkey! It's beautiful and welcoming
The Turkish people as a whole have a fantastic sense of humor
Extremely kind people
They will go out of their way to be helpful
Very patriotic. The only place I have been where you see the flag displayed more is Greece
I came to love the call to prayer. 5x per day and I will miss it
Apples, pears, pomegranates, olives, figs, pistachios, walnuts, are all trees you see growing in orchards, backyards and wild
Cotton fields, potatoes, pumpkins (for seeds only)
Street food everywhere you go: fresh squeezed juices, roasted chestnuts, roasting corn, pineapple slices, kepbaps
Everyone is referred to as "my friend"
Carpet salesmen really do exist... In great numbers...everything you have ever heard is true
Their drivers make Romanian and Bulgarian drivers look like grandma out for a Sunday drive
I will dream about their yogurt
Turkish (squat) toilets. Roll up your pants and get over it because they are everywhere
From sales people to people on the street in a neighborhood would frequently call Tom "sir" and not address me at all
Turkish music? Surprise!! They listen to music that sounds like what you'd expect traditional Turkish music to sound like.... Oh, and equally popular... TECHNO!