Today is the Buda Side, Budapest Hungary - Day 39 in Europe - Jan 20th 2013: Yesterday was exploring the Pest side of the city, Today is the exploration of the Buda side. First off, the money here is really cool, like in huge denominations. When I thought Czech money was large, Hungarian money is even more so! 10 US Dollars in Czech is around 200, but in Hungarian it is 2,000Ft! At the bank I took out 15,000Ft but it was only about 50 Dollars. And no, I did not mean 15,000 Feet, lol. Ft is what the money is abriviated as, so it's funny to see signs about stores that say, 2 "550Ft", cuz it looks like it says the store is 550Ft away, lol. After staying in the Czech Republic for as long
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