Season Hostel Budapest

We arrived in to Budapest at about 12.30, very tired from the night train and looking forward to lying down in a nice bed! It didn't take us very long to find the hostel, only a couple of stops on the metro from the station, but it took us ages to figure out how to get in to the hostel! We were stood outside for quite a while looking at the sign which said 'For Caminito Hostel ring bell 14'. It sounds simple enough... except for the fact that there wasn't a bell anywhere ...

Well today, Noni was hungover which was most amusing, but less so because I was suffering from hayfever (damn pretty Linz and its trees of sneezyness). But we had a lovely breakfast (simple but lovely) with some of the people from last night. I checked out so that I could bother Noni in her room until it was time to head to the train station. I'm pretty sure the train station and the subsequent train ...

... managed to get down the hill and then back up another to enter Buda Castle, where we once again were offered a beautiful view of the city. It seemed that no matter where we went during the day, we somehow managed to end up in a place that offered us a panoramic picture perfect view of the city. As I previously mentioned, the Romani and Hungarian populations of Pecs managed to forge a close relationship based on mutual respect. However, the situation in Budapest ...

... those times. Me who could hardly wait for the fall of communism. It's interesting how one's perspective changes with time. And how one understands that nothing is completely black or completely white, and that different things are mainly just different from each other and nothing more. Off from Szabadság tér, one gets almost directly onto the Vértanúk tere, or Martyr's Square, where there is the Monument to Imre Nagy, a Hungarian politician who had started off as a convinced ...

... somewhere with her mate but her mate when packing had lost her passport. we arranged to met them at there hostel at about half ten then go out. me and Murray walked down to there hostel with the worst directions ever and went up. there they=y were after the pleasantries had been done we got down to the business of getting drunk and we bought a couple of bottles of wine from the girl's hostel's bar. Vicky took this hard and with in a while she was on the ...

... Prague, no need to return", but leaving Budapest I am thinking that while I've seen a lot of places, I would return in a heartbeat just to enjoy the atmosphere of the city. Right now there are protests going on in front of the famous parliament buildings. Protesters have been camped out there for weeks, but have now brought in army tents and are digging in for the colder winter weather which will arrive soon. The basic situation, as best as I can understand, is that ...

... house of parliament in the world after Westminster). We had also achieved the Royal Palace, built and rebuilt after each new devastation that wracked the city, even though the palace was often uninhabited by the Hapsburgs, who preferred Vienna as a home base. With a bit more huffing and puffing over the more medieval cobblestoned streets of the castle neighborhood, we arrived at the magnificent Matthias Church, another neo-Gothic structure with a colorful ...

... which was true, however it's not at all like the Peles castle I saw in Sinia, Romania which I have attached pictures of. This is a huge house, shaped like a castle, but with no bells and whistles except for the ecological friendly kind. You see, this is now a bio-farm or should I say "ecological farm", so there were no chandeliers or beautiful paintings on the walls or ceilings, just pictures of the surrounding countryside. I was spending 10 days here learning all kinds of new ...