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Published: February 19th 2008
So, our original plan for this weekend was to go to Rome but work told Matt he was going to have to work this weekend (he ended up not working after all though). So, Megan, Maria, Catherine, and I (their husbands all had to work too) decided to take a girls trip to Budapest for the weekend. Catherine found two 2-person apartments right next door to each other which ended up costing us each 20 Euros per night and were beautiful. The outside was a little scary because it was located right next door to a sex shop but the neighborhood was fine and the inside has recently been completely redone. We did get some sightseeing done...we visited the Parliament building but couldn't go inside because tickets were sold out for the next week! We also visited the palace, walk around the Castle District, and got to walk across the Chain Bridge a ton of times. I took a bunch of pictures of the Danube too 😊 Mostly, we shopped and ate and talked. We didn't have a bad meal in Budapest. The food was all excellent and wasn't expensive at all! Their currency is the Florint and it was about
178 Florints to one dollar, which made currency conversion interesting 😊 We dealt quite a bit in 1000 Florint bills but it was still a little bit shocking when the bill came and it was 6,000 Florints (a little over $30).
Everything that I had read about Budapest sounded a lot like Prague but, fortunately, we didn't run into any of the same problems that we'd had in Prague. Over all it was a great trip and it was nice to travel with all of the girls 😊
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Andrea and Romas
Our Journey
Great pictures!! It looks beautiful! I'm glad you had fun even if you missed out on Rome. Florence was great...but so COLD!! Maybe we'll get to do Rome together after all!!! :)