Budapest
Travel Blogs from Budapest, Hungary
The East of the West & the West of the East
... . While we contemplated these things we made the acquiantance of a man, Istvan, who was a resident of Budapest who had visited Vancouver once upon a time. He and his wife were pleasant company and impressively tolerant of ...
Hungary?
... and said a few phrases for us which were the funiest sounds I have heard come out of someone's mouth! The weather in Budapest is strange, warm one minute and raining and cold the next! The walking tour included most of the sites in Budapest ...
Hungarian ramblings....
... to the countryside.. ....the couchsurfers here really got it going on!!!! A very friendly community, the friendliest people in Budapest to my experience, super nice people...and they're totally into helping you out... ...Hungarian food ....mmmmmm ...
Feasting on hospitality....
... too long to load and I got impatient...but listen to them...these musicians were playing outside the palace of Buda in Hungary... But Now Were on to ROMANIA!! Pull in to Cluj-Napoca, find the hostel and within ten minutes this guy, who is ...
The Blue Danube
... left they could also say "hello, good-bye, goodnight and 2 minutes please". Well, we should have camped a little closer to Budapest because the rickety bus trip into town was a bone crunching, sweltering, packed, 1 hour and 10 minutes, followed by 10 ...
Hot Budapest
... which looks over all of Buda and Pest, the two sides of the river. The view was magnificent. The architecture in Budapest is sensational, the reliefs on the buildings and statuary breathtaking. A huge beer for the boys and an iced coffee for Lynn ...
Undiscovered Prague
... ; The view from Buda hill is spectacular. And worth the hike up. I think the previous inhabitants liked walking Budapest too. The Romans are believed to have introduced thermal baths here. The Turks later popularized them. Today ...
Budapest
... would come across a much less crowded part and the highest tower where no-one goes! Day 3 We seen so much more of Budapest this visit. We'd come across parks we never knew existed. We thought we'd take a side trip to see something outside of the ...
Thermal healing
... oldest (read worst) that I've been on. I wasn't too impressed with the ticket system either.... Well, time was up, the end of my last day in Budapest. Overall I was a little disappointed in the city, I just didn't feel anything from ...
May I see your Visa please Ma'am?
... statue park. This place was heavily advertised and sounded rather cool, all the old statues of communism that had adorned Budapest's streets together in a park, with communist marches playing as you walked around, you could sit in one of those communist ...
Sziget Festival
... pissed herself. And we survived! The long version: Ljubljana was a disappointment so we cut short our stay and headed to Budapest where we had 24 hours of extraordinary good luck. Everywhere and everyone said that camping tickets had sold out, however ...
Beautiful Budapest or I'm Hungry in Hungary
... only steps from our hotel in Vienna on Maria Hilfer Strasse. We arrive in a busy, dilapidated yet beautiful boned train station in Budapest a few short hours later. We decide to get cash from the ATM and have to wait in a Communist style breadline to get ...
The language is sumptuous, the food scrumptious
... the controls--this is it. -From Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand I took my third- and probably the last- overnight train to Budapest, Hungary. I have been looking forward to Budapest for two reasons: 1) I get to travel alone for the first time in ...
Budapest
... were, checked out the nice buildings over the Danube on the Buda side of the city lit up and also the Basilica. Budapest is basically 2 distinct districts; Buda where a lot of the older buildings are found, and Pest which is much more the busy part ...
Mandragera
Took a long but uneventful train ride from Prague to Budapest today after a teary goodbye to my mom who also left to go home to Long Beach. Comfy 2nd class seats on the train. Sat next to and across from two older German women who kept having ...
Dunabogdani Camp Bule
... the Danube and we were on our way again, the owners of the campground waving us goodbye. What a wonderful place to stay, amongst families and friends. It is the picture which comes to my mind when I think of Hungary; Camping Bule, Auto Camp, ...
Budapest, St Stephens Day
A nice sunny day greeted me in the morning, so after a shower and some scran we headed out, planning on catching some of the air show around the Danube, and taking some sights in along the way, then seeing St Stephens hand parade, and finally ...
From here to there...
Sitting at JFK waiting for the Alitalia flight to depart...first stop Milan, then Budapest, Hungary. Seems like a whirlwind of activity during these last 2 weeks in the states. From Iceland to Long Island for some motherly nurturing and ...
Wandering the Streets of Buda... and Pest
... hand is much newer and has lots of shops, cafes etc - it's basically where everything happens. It's also where I stayed. I like Budapest - the river is a lively focal point and it's a pleasant change from the cities where the old town is surrounded by ...
Budapest, Hungary
... of those in the rooms practicing and I was glad that I was far, far away from having to do that myself. Geographically, Budapest is a lot like Portland, Oregon. There is a river running North to South through the city, there are 6 bridges connecting the ...
Full of Sziget
... ahead. And the morning I woke up in Bratislava, I tried, but I couldn't book anything day of online, so I assumed, well, Budapest is a big city, better equipped for tourists and at least one hostel is bound to send a lackey to the train station to swoop ...
Hairy Hungarians
Hello everyone Daniel here, Well I have been quite impressed with Budapest. It is quite a beautiful city especially at night with all the buildings along the Danube lit up and after our tour yesterday we now know that the buildings actually ...
Interesting Facts
We recently got this in an email and thought it was pretty good. Apologies for any copyright. If anyone has any issues please let us know. What it means to be Australian Being Australian is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a ...
The Road to Budapest
We did a three-and-a half hour drive down to Budapest yesterday from Brusno, Slovakia. Hungary is supposedly more well off than Slovakia. I didn't see it, at least not between the Slovakian border and the actual city of Budapest. There were horse/donkey ...
Hot baths and more rain
(C) Holy Crap can it rain in eastern Europe. For some reason, we decided it was time for a hotel, which maybe was one of our most brilliant decisions ever. First of all, it got to about 300 degrees today, and we had to move to an ...
Is this the City Hall? Or that one? Or THAT one?
... nbsp;looks like a huge train station, except every space is occupied by stores. It's like the Granz Bazaar of Budapest. There are Hungarian fast-food restaurants and the best and the most entertaining souvenir shops I have seen. The ...
Vinny's Birthday, and other stories...
... a defence. For what it's worth, the rest of this entry will be dedicated to our mothers, and I will try to behave accordingly...... Budapest. The best city in Eastern Europe. Which is kind of strange, as we were preparing for it to be the worst. But ...

