Pest is the best! Okay, Buda is great too.

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...And then for the last three days of our trip, we stayed in Budapest, Hungary. Specifically, the Pest side of the Duna (Donau) River. Overall, I think that Budapest was my favorite city of the three. It had an extremely exciting but homey vibe to it, at least in my opinion. The people were amazingly hospitable and kind to us; even in just three days, I noticed that quite a lot. For example, a 14-year-old boy and I were standing in line at a food court, and the boy said something to me, and I told him that I didn't speak Hungarian, and so he said, "English? Do you want to learn some Hungarian?" So my friend Katie and I sat with him in the food court and learned a whole bunch of random phrases. One useful word was "Gus" which means "thanks."

Our itinerary included visiting the Roman ruins; seeing a castle; witnessing some of the protests going on while we were there; having a bunch of freetime to just explore (during that time, several of us went to one of the Turkish baths and to an organ concert in a huge, beautiful church.)

Speaking of the Turkish baths - it is definitely something to do once, but not worth doing it more than once. And no, nobody at the one we went to was naked. I guess some other ones were, but at the one we went to, everyone was wearing a swimming suit. It cost roughly the equivalent of ten dollars, and there are three big pools - one cold, one warm, and one hot. You are supposed to start in the hottest one and work your way to the coldest, and that is apparently good for your circulation.

Anyway... it is getting to be a kind of long journal entry. Picture time...

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Photos

Budapest
View from a high place of some sort, obviously...

Budapest castle
This one looks so movie-castle-like. I really like this one.

Jeff
The police hat that he bought... he looks pretty official to me.

Some tame protests in Budapest
The riots had completely calmed down by the time we got there.

The Roman ruins
Yay for old stuff. That's all I have to say.

Mary...
Wow, I thought this was amazingly beautiful. It is in the cathedral in which we watched the organ concert.

Sean and Ashley
Ashley looked silly with her hood on. That's basically the point of this picture.
We were stopped for lunch in some big pretty meadow in Slovakia, on our way from Krakow to Budapest.

Dan catching some Z's...
Haha...
Yes, Dan was quite tired on the bus. And yes, I have permission to post this on the internet. :) It took awhile, but I did acquire this permission.

Comments

[irthewalrus]

agreements have been made
I agree. Old stuff is cool. Nice pictures love.

[alia142]

Thank you dahling
Gilato. soon.