Budapest, Hungary Travel Blogs

... us his personal favorite restaurant "Eklectika".  How apropos! When we suggested to him that the number of English speaking people in Budapest was most impressive he replied "No, no, this is not so true.  You are misinformized."  When we ...

A travel blog entry by sutiramisu
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... 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 ....the ...

A travel blog entry by rawhideone
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by rawhideone
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... hand painted wooden dolls and embroidered A 'must see' Szentendre is not. We got the first train out and headed back to Budapest. David wanted to visit the synagogue to satisfy the jewish family ties. Being Monday we expected it to be closed but them ...

A travel blog entry by lucinate
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Hello, I am now in Budapest Hungary. cheers, Lloyd

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by tbassplayer
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... . 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 their medicinal ...

A travel blog entry by eric
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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 a ...

A travel blog entry by tracystravels
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... 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 it.

A travel blog entry by hels_belles
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by sojanet
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... 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 our ...

A travel blog entry by baileyandkerry
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by charmedlife
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by hels_belles
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by danblank
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by itsem
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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 winding ...

A travel blog entry by hels_belles
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by eatdessertfirst
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by rawhideone
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Budapest is made up of two cities, Buda and Pest before uniting to be called Budapest.  Two cities are separated by Danube River.  West side of the river is Buda and the east side is Pest.  While I didn't know what to expect out of Budapest, ...

A travel blog entry by yah27
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... 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 the ...

A travel blog entry by susan_g
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 Budapest is the other capital of the old Austro-Hungarian empire and it feels like a grand city. The city is actually two towns, joined together, Buda and Pest. Buda is more historical and residential while Pest is the larger of the two and is more ...

A travel blog entry by tavini
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... breakfast (which was included in our room rate) we decided to do a city sight seeing bus trip. As we only had one day in Budapest we had to cram as much in as possible but unfortunately our first bad decision was to walk 35 minutes to the tour depot. We ...

A travel blog entry by scootergal
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... to see the oldies still marching in their colours. Consequently we did not see Croatia before we departed Italy. The flight to Budapest was uneventful and, like Rome, I had not booked any accommodation - I was leaving it up to the gods (hawkers) to ...

A travel blog entry by scootergal
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... nbsp; Budapest is divided into two parts by Danube River, or rather, two cities Obuda and Pest joined to form the glorious Budapest, a city that slapped left and right through the ages.  We walked up along the river and visited St. Stephen's Church- ...

A travel blog entry by sojanet
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(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 air- ...

A travel blog entry by gr8escape
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... 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 it ...

A travel blog entry by foolsgold
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... be!  Jess and I walked through the rest of the park, through Heroes Square and then down the famous Andrassy Street...Budapest's version of the Champs de Lysees...I know wrong spelling...at this point the feet were screaming and we headed back to the ...

A travel blog entry by tracystravels
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rip to Budapest for Paul's Birthday treat (bit late since his birthday was in April, but it's what he wanted!) We had a perfectly located hotel room - with a large balcony overlooing the Danube and the Parliament building - exactly where the Red Bull ...

A travel blog entry by worldramblings
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Arriving in Budapest fresh from a good nights sleeper train (is it wrong I was so happy that a 50 year old nun was kicked off at 2am at the freezing Slovakian border for passport reasons giving us a whole cabin to ourselves?) we firstly did some refreshing ...

A travel blog entry by catters
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... 7 hours driving through it), but we did enjoy the scenery and are thinking of going back to Bratislava on a future trip. BUDAPEST, HUNGARY We arrived in Budapest at dinner time and found a lovely restaurant which served local stews close to the hotel ...

A travel blog entry by chronometers
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