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Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest September 13th 2012

Originally, Hungary was not part of the plan. We’re suppose to just go straight from Prague to Vienna. But then my hubby “challenged” me to realize my wish list of writing my own travel book. Well, in order to do that, I need another Eastern Europe countries on my repertoire. So, challenge accepted! It was exactly 10 days before we left for Europe, and I thought I’m going mad. I’m not really someone who likes changing plans especially last minute. I threw the idea to M just to see how he feels about it. Especially because we already bought our discounted bus ticket to Vienna . I was ready to hear him saying I’m out of my mind. But surprisingly he was very supportive about it . Yayyy! And that last minute addition apparently works well, ... read more
Night Train to Budapest
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Great Hall Market

Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest August 25th 2012

Uitgaansleven Het uitgaansleven in Boedapest is goed. In Óbuda vindt je een negental commerciële danceclubs in de met loopbruggetjes verbonden haven van Hajogyári Sziget. Het meest bijzonder zijn de kerts, goed verstopte binnentuinen met grote (verwarmde) terrassen en een druk komen en gaan. Voor theaters, concerten, grand cafés en de opera moet je naar de buurt rond de deftige Andrássy boulevard en voor gezellige kleine kroegen, clubs en restaurants naar de Joodse Wijk of naar de buurt ten zuiden van het stadscentrum. Hippe (en dure) grand cafés met terrassen vind je op het Ferenc Lisztplein. Veel café 's en clubs zijn tot diep in de nacht geopend en de prijzen zijn nog altijd aanmerkelijk lager dan bij ons. Ruïne kroegen: In oude panden maken ze tegenwoording kroegen. Vaak zijn ze redelijk easy-going, soms ietwat trendy. Szimpla ... read more
Paprikas Etterem
Szimpla

Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest July 2nd 2012

I slept very late this morning, almost 9:30. We had a ticket on the Hop On Hop Off tour bus today. We walked around for an hour to find the starting point. Then we rode around Pest for 90 minutes, listening to recording about the sights, perspiring in the heat. The recording was easy to understand and we learned a lot about the buildings on the route. We ate our sandwiches on top of Gellert Hill during a 20-minute stopover. We had an appointment with Beata Szechy who is director of an artist residency here in Hungary (http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com). She had given us specific directions to her house: take the #18 tram to the Deli Train Station, catch bus #51, get off at the intersection of Tamasi Aron and Fodor u.… and 3rd house #34 down the ... read more
Cold Peach Soup and Cucumber Salad
Evening on the Balcony at the Gellert
Our Room at the Gellert

Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest June 14th 2012

Buda lies on the hill side of the Danube and Pest, the flat area, lies opposite. The st of the name is pronounced with the 'shh' sound. Goulash is a soup not a stew. I only saw Bobosh Torte once and did not taste it. There was an opportunity to shoot with a bow and arrow (as Hungarian warriors are depicted) on the hill during the Goose Festival. Many buildings have been carefully restored. Many more are in need of attention. May 30 The seven day visit to Budapest needs to be summed up in one blog. The arrival day counts as day one only because the arrival was at such an ungodly hour ... 08:30 ... thankfully not too early for the man Sandor from the Blue Danube Hostel to pick me up in his ... read more
St. Stephan,  founder of Budapest
The Beautiful Chain Bridge
The View During Breakfast at NewYork Cafe

Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest June 3rd 2012

May 28: Before leaving the Bratislava area we went to Devin Castle on the banks of the Danube. It is a relatively small but nice ruined castle, one of the many for which Slovakia is famous. All the castles are up on fortified hills for protection – it makes sense strategically, but not in terms of construction – lugging those rocks up the hill would have been a nightmare! In the afternoon we drove to the famous thermal baths area of Slovakia (Hotel Giga Besenova) for a spa evening. We tried to stop at a little town on the way to briefly explore and have lunch, but due to the pouring rain shower we never made it out of the mall that our parking garage was under. We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening ... read more

Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest May 26th 2012

Just to finish off from my last blog...my last two days in Krakow were an incredible!! I am really glad that I went to Auschwitz. Going there will obviously be a difference experience for everyone - and one that I highly recommend. We visited the salt mine in Wieliczka and walked 101 metres under ground, the whole time I felt like when you get out on the surf and your body drys and you feel salty! Very cool to see!! And yes I did lick the salty walls...very salty. The next day we did a walking tour and learned a lot about Krakow, it was one of the only cities in Poland that wasn't not destroyed in WWII, so it is very old and very beautiful. Exciting news...I survived my first over night train! Matt and ... read more
Streets of Budapest

Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest May 7th 2012

We woke up today to the sound of rain and thought temporarily we were back in Edinburgh!! Disappointed but pleased wed done most of the exploring yesterday we headed down for breakie again which was same as the day before and just as nice. We then found out about shopping in Budapest and found there was a big mall relatively close to our hotel. So, we went in search firstly with our hood up for a new umbrella as Mellow Yellow had a sad unfortunate death in Copenhagen a few weekends ago L Umbrella above us we headed to the mall and did a spot of shopping. Well be did! Shirt, jeans and shorts – good effort! I didn’t buy anything but was really cheap shopping! Decided it was time for a baileys coffee (which seems ... read more
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Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest May 5th 2012

Not so early this am we boarded our plane to London to get to Budapest. Thankfully we only had a 1 hour gap between flights rather than the 4 we had to copenhagen! Loaded up on some yummy bagels and smoothies, checked in with the family and then hopped on our plane to Budapest. We had no idea what to expect and hadnt done like any research into what there was to do but we'll sort it when we get there! We were basically just excited about some actual sun and warmth which we hadnt felt in a long time!! Just under 2 hours and we had landed and spent a while trying to figure out the currency and how much we should draw out! Taking a stab in the dark we ordered a shuttle as ... read more
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Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest April 17th 2012

*sry if these first few paragraphs are weird, they were typed on my iPod.* Arrived by orangeways bus: decent bus, seats small but leather, had a stewardess, free coffee, and movies. The ride here was fun, I watched some movies, played some games, and did some reading. Slovakia was really cool, I kind of regret skipping out on Levoca and Spisky hrad but I’m glad I had a few days to chill in Krakow. I arrived at night with no map to the hostel, so I had to follow directions old school “left at the light” style which was pretty cool. The hostel was in upper floor of a building seemingly like all the others, kind of falling apart but cool, old Hapsburg architecture. Building and gated hostel door looked shady at first, but it was ... read more

Europe » Hungary » Central Hungary » Budapest » Pest » Visegrad April 8th 2012

So we made it in one piece more or less to Hungary Now we were a bit spoilt because I got us a deal at the Ramada Plaza, but we had to get there first. We got a 3 day travel card here for 3850 HF We also had to get some hungarian coins and figure out what the hell they all meant! So we got the metro to the overground and then it was only a 5min walk from the overground. Dropped our bags off at the hotel as check in wasn't till 2pm and decided to go look at something close by. Hopped back on the tram and went down towards castle hill. We figured out we could use our cards to swipe open the bank in order to get money out, which was ... read more




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