Polus Hotel Budapest

... the specialty of Takaji, Aszu, which in the US would be called a late harvest wine. It is a very sweet white wine. We share a glass that costs more than the entire bottle of red wine. Excellent. Buying the wine in supermarkets though cuts the cost in half.

The Great Synagogue is the biggest synagogue in Europe holding 3,000 people. The interior resembles a church which was an attempt to assimilate as much as possible into the ...

... chose to live an easier life without the commitments of a real practice. He gave us spring water that a friend of his bottled at the source and delivered and spent a good deal of time experimenting with rice flour waffles. On our first night we went out to the only vegan resturaunt in all of Budapest and had some really excellent traditional but with vegan substitutions Hungarian food.

After we got settled we set off to explore the city and find Kylie, a ...

... on the tour went to the thermal baths. Imagine being able to spend a few hours or all day if you want to in nice naturally-heated water that has healing capabilities apparently. Throughout Budapest, and the entire country, there are thermal spas and Hungarian love a good soak in the water. As I said earlier, it's bliss. And this is a pool for soaking, not for swimming laps. At the thermal spa we went to there was one pool for swimming but most people just go to the ...

... usually beautiful but we´ve just seen so many! We are more into the unusual sights that are more unique to the cities now... After that we took a walk, a VERY long and lost walk back to our hostel. We were exhausted, I rested for 30 minutes, then we got ready to go to the Opera! This was Chrissy and I´s first Opera we had ever been to and we really really enjoyed it. We bought great seats earlier that say that put us directly facing the stage in the front ...

Our last day in Budapest was not even the last day, but just the last morning. The train to Zagreb departed very early, right after eight o'clock, so all we had time for was breakfast. After that we checked out and the receptionist summoned us a taxi to Budapest Keleti pu. Of course, charging us only 2200 forints, this ride was almost twice as cheap as the one when we had ...

... either. We tried to get up to the Palace on Castle Hill, but there was some folk festival on with a rather expensive entrance fee to get in, so we just had a peer over the wall. After a walk along the Danube in the opposite direction to what I didn't realise was the only open bridge of the main ones, we had to walk all the way back....... cue walking for another hour through crowds of people..... By ...

In the afternoon, we went to City Park, where there is a group of miniature buildings representing typical Hungarian architecture from all over the country. It was built for the 1900 exposition celebrating 1000 years of Magyar culture -- kind of an early Disneyland. The Budapest Zoo is also in the park, and the Szechenyi Baths are close by.

... einheimische Jugendliche kennengelernt und wieder zu Vodka eingeladen worden - aber diesmal nur mit Zungenspitze probiert, aber dann NEIN gesagt! Einer hat eine Kappe voll ins Feuer geworfen worauf eine Feuerwalze aufstieg!!! Nach gemütlicher Fahrt Ankunft in Budapest in Ungarn. Eigentlich wäre am Wochenende Formel 1 - Rennen, aber diesen Spass habe ich mir in Australien gegönnt ...

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... in. Most of my time here has been spent walking around Pest and marvelling at the consistancy and scale and grandeur of the architectural design; it's easily possible to spend hours walking without ever leaving the older parts of the city. Everywhere there are wide open avenues and boulevards so everything feels very open and light, yet the buildings on these streets are all so monumental and huge! Almost every building is about 3 or 4 stories ...