What a beautiful city! I flew into Budapest last night, following the directions given by the host of the home exchange apartment that we're staying in. Elly flew in from Athens earlier in the day, so we planned to meet at the apartment. The directions were very clear, and public transportation is well laid out. I took a bus, then the metro, then a streetcar. Got to the apartment and caught up with Elly, and then we caught a bus into the centre of town to walk around a little, and have dinner together. Mexican, which seemed kind of wrong, but in the long stretch of restaurants, there didn't to be any real Hungarian cuisine (though the typical dishes that I read about were all meat based anyway). There was Italian, Japanese, Spanish, American, Mexican options.
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