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First Night in Budapest
Well, the ride to the train from Prague to Budapest was pretty long. Not to mention the fact that I had to paz 17.50 euro just for going through a country i would never go through, Slovenia. I should've just to check out Bratislava, but, instead, I continued with them to Budapest. We met up with two canadians who ended up living in ireland and were …
Hungary
... when looking for a camp I found myself lost and truly out in
the sticks. I asked a man sat on a leather computer chair outside his
collapsing home where I could camp. He invited me in and told me to
choose my spot between the chickens and dog poo. His wife was almost
twice his size and both almost completely toothless. She brought out a
huge pot of stew that we scooped up with mounds of bread and kept my
glass of wine topped up. He showed me ...
Budapest, "Paris" of Central Europe and much more
... We walked and talked our way to the Opera house, took the retro metro to the City Park where we saw the Heroes Square, castles, back on Metro to St Istevan Basilica. St. Stephan, patron saint of Hungary Stopped at first Strudel house of Pest for snack. We tried different kinds of strudel and watched them make it. After break, the group walked across the Chain Bridge uphill to the Castle district. We continued on ...
Sometimes ignoring GPS is OK
... since she knows the traffic sign convention and can read the Hungarian on them. At one point, we took a right instead of a left and missed the highway. Turns out it was OK since the GPS had indicated that there was significant traffic ahead. We ended up on the old way to Budapest, which Livia and I remembered enough of to verify what GPS was telling us to do, and didn’t take too much longer than the original highway ...
On to Budapest!
... of explosives (you can see where this is going.) Just before the Turks took over the city, the local parishioners of Matthias Church down the street from the castle were trying to protect a statue of Mary and Jesus that they had in a niche of the church so they plastered over the opening of the niche to hide the statue. The Turks took over the city and turned the Church into a Mosque, never noticing the plastered over wall niche. 145 years later, the gunpowder stored in ...