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Exploring Pest, No Time for Buda
... while I set up the conference room for the presentation.
We had five attendees at my first session. Almost seems hard to justify sending me all this way to talk to five people, but it was a great first audience for me as I was able to keep things a little more informal. Thanks to the smaller size, we were able to finish the whole event, including q & a, by 9 pm...which was good for me as I had to be up by 5:30 am for my flight to Kyiv, Ukraine.
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What happens when you plan not so much
... headed over to the other hill on my map. Also got distracted by pretty looking buildings on my way and was thinking of giving up the mission. I mean how hard can it be to find a hill!
So by about 5pm I'm feeling rather tired and hungry so it seems like a good time to head back to the apartment. But I feel like if I don't climb at least one hill I'm not doing a city justice so I got on a bus that might have been going the way I wanted, ...
Day 14-15 Hungry in Hungary
Monday 30th April
Today was one the shorter drive days and after only an hour we were in Slovakia where we got a break in Bratislava. We first drove to the Cita Del (the castle) at the top of the hill with gorgeous views over the city, then got dropped in the town centre for an hour and a half break.
During this time we wandered around the ...
Budapest I: Museums to Ballet to Bars
... recent.
After getting to the first main bridge over the Danube, we were ice cold. The city itself wasn't too cold, but the wind along the river was freezing. We decided to head into the Pest side of the city (it's actually two separate cities, Buda on one side and Pest on the other). We went through the commercial district, and found plenty of very expensive shopping destinations, along with, of course, Burger King and McDonalds. You can never ...
From Buda to Pest
... the Danube. As we did so we pondered the pillows on our B&B beds. As you can see from the photo, each of our pillows had a pillow. This is one of the joys of traveling--to make sense of the unfamiliar: Is this the way Hungarians normally sleep--with a little pillow stacked on a bigger one? Or is it an anomaly of this particular B&B? Perhaps it was a special gesture of lavish Hungarian hospitality. Or was it simply that their pillows ...