Gold Hotel Panzio
Travel Blogs from Budapest
Murder in the Dark
... to really freak ourselves out. An exhibition detailing 15 or so of histories most infamous killers. Donning headphones, you are led from room to room as lights, videos and dummies are used to create the scenes of some of these unforgettable crimes. Including Al Capone, Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, Hannibal Lector and more. Finally you are led to a chill out room with a water feature and classical music... Just to calm your racing heart. It was very ...
Budapest..or should I say, Jewdapest?
... ever had. After we ate we saw the whole city lit up. It was really beautiful. We went to get more wine and drank it on the steps of St. Stephens Basilica. It didn't even feel wrong to do that. Haha. We also checked out this cool outside bar with a pool and deck where we (and a lot of other people) put our feet in the water while we drank some beer. Sanitary, right? You'd think we were Margaret or something. Shelby and I also climbed to the top of a ...
Slice of heaven
... I used the infrared light on my camera to light to way. Probably not the use it was meant for but it did the trick. Apparently an hour before closing all the lights in the caves get turned off and tourists are given an old oil lantern to light their way through. That would have been awesome I reckon, but I wasn't gonna wait around for three hours. We spent a good hour or so in the cave, bathing in its cool 15º. Outside we had left a warm 35º so I was keen ...
Euro Pop Goes The Budget
... and made to join a sex cult do you think? Check in was made even easier due to my upgraded seat for my now champagne fuelled flight, one last hurrah. The flight literally brought me back down to earth in the UK and metaphorically it made me crash land with such force into the reality of my situation. I am homeless, unemployed with limited skills in a very useless field and I am in my thirties without a penny to my name. Brilliant. I’m from a ...
Hungarian Spa
... people in-case of nuclear wall that was kept functional until very recently. Hungary has almost been on the wrong side of history - with WWII and the nazis, with socialism, ect… - but seems to have fully acknowledged its flawed history. The tour guide was very clear of this past and trying to distance modern Budapest from this past. Heroes Square in a fascinating square itself - on one side is the US embassy, on other sides are old buildings that used ...
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