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Goodbye to Budapest - I wish I had stayed longer!
After the day's adventures I just went to some ruinpubs with other hostel travelers and a hostel leader. The next morning I left for the airport to return to Uppsala. Budapest was great! I would recommend this city to anyone visiting Europe! The baths were amazing, as was the food, the architecture, the skyline, and the sights. I hope I get to go back to this city to explore for longer than 3 days! That was not enough time.
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On my last full day in Budapest I finally got to walk around outside in the daylight! The building facades here were so amazing - pretty and awesome. I'm glad I got some daylight shots of them. I walked around town on the main avenues, stopping at Sirius Tea House (it was cozy, covey, and Alice in Wonderlandy) for a break. Then Joel and I continued on to the City Park to see the Fake Castle (there are 4 different styles/eras of architecture on one building, built at one time. I guess it was cardboard when it was first built!), the Heroes' Square, the largest ice rink in Europe, and to visit the baths.
It was all beautiful, but the highlight was the baths. Budapest is known for their baths. On the Buda side, there are a chain of old Turkish thermal baths along the river. The baths I went to were in City Park on the Pest side and I believe it's one of the newest facilities and the biggest. It's a popular choice for tourists, but it's also a lot of locals still. It had 18 pools! I made it into 10 of them over 2.5 hours. It was hard to leave! Half the time I was there with Joel, then he left to go see the Nutcracker, and then the rest of the time I was solo. Something funny that happened when I first got to the baths was that I got stuck in a whirlpool and couldn't get out! It was kind of hilarious. I'm glad Joel got to see that :) It was nice to be solo, too, though. At one point though I ended up being the only girl in a hot tub with 8 Hungarian men sitting around me, blocking the exit of the tub. That was pretty funny and a little awkward - I waited for enough of them to leave before I could leave, so I was getting really hot sitting in this 40C tub! At the end of my visit, around 6 pm and after dark, I went back into the outdoor baths. It was really steamy, to the point where if it wasn't windy you couldn't see more than 3-5 feet in front of you. It was because the pool was so warm and the air was so cold - around -7C (20 F). Eek! Sometimes the wind would whip out the steam, and you would see how many people were actually milling around or making out in a corner. While I was relaxing alone however, I had two 50+ Hungarian men who couldn't speak English talk at me for about 5 minutes while sitting right next to me. That was a little awkward! I finally left after taking some pictures - I would brace myself, get out of the pool and run to grab my towel which had frozen into a stiff board, and run inside to avoid freezing in my bikini! It was ridiculous! Everyone was running when out of the water outside, except for the Hungarian men in their speedos!
Enjoy my favorite photos from the day! There was too much to take photos of, so some of the places I went to aren't shown above. Do a google search if you're curious about the Fake Castle or Sirius Tea House!
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At the End of Day 2
Joel and I come back from Castle Hill and joined Marcus and Peter at the St Stephen's Basilika Christmas Market (pictures in the post prior) to get some mulled wine (forralt bor). It was very tasty! Some of Peter's friends from Slovakia (if I remember correctly...) joined us. Then we walked to Peter's friend's house to join a group. We had a couple drinks at his friend's lovely Budapest apartment, and then we headed to an electronic show. The performance was in the lobby of what is usually a movie theater - it was kind of funny because there were movie posters all over and movie previews playing on a screen even during the show. Peter's friends were all so nice! I'm glad I got to out with them. I had a fun time that night and at the show. Peter and Marcus were very good hosts to Budapest for me. Thank you so much, Peter and Marcus! I had hoped to see them again after that night, but Marcus was going to Hawaii for Christmas with his family and Peter and I didn't manage to coordinate our schedules again.
I will post pictures of my last day in Budapest soon! Until then - Happy New Year and I'll talk to you all next year :)
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Food! At the Christmas market at St. Stephen's Basilika
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Fisherman's Bastion
Another sight on Castle Hill. It is right next to the Matthias Church with an amazing viewpoint to see the Pest side from. It was built late 19th century and was nearly destroyed in WWII. It has been restored since.
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Matthias Church
On Castle Hill just a couple blocks from the Buda Castle. This church was amazing. I've never seen a church like it. Besides the general beauty of the complex architecture, I loved the colorful tiled roof. It was really hard to catch that in photographs at night so if you want to see a daytime picture so you can clearly see the colorful roof, go here! This was too late to go inside the church as well, so it was just picture time and no learning. Next time I'll make sure to go during open hours...
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Buda Castle
This was an amazing building. We didn't get there early enough in the day to go inside, so I didn't really get to learn anything about it. The architecture was beautiful though, and there were a lot of amazing statues around the castle.
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Some skyline views across the Danube river. I must say, this was one of the most breathtaking skylines I've ever been on. It was so gorgeous - beautiful big buildings all lit up reflecting on the water. Amazing.
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On my second day in Budapest
I found someone from the hostel I was staying at who wanted to do the same thing I did. Joel, 29 from Australia currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a work visa, became my travel buddy while I was in Budapest. We got breakfast at a nearby restaurant. Good coffee, orange juice, amazing huge slices of artisan bread with butter, a fried egg, thick pieces of ham more like giant bacon, and slices of cucumber, tomato, and bell pepper. This was 1200 forint, which is about $5.50 (excluding tip).
After breakfast we headed to the House of Terror Museum. We spent 4 hours listening to the audio guided tour through the building, learning about the communist and fascist regimes and the double occupation during the Holocaust. The communist regime lasted there until 1989, so a lot of the material in the museum wasn't very old. It was amazing to learn some more recent history in Europe. In Scandinavia all the history I had learned was pretty distant, I definitely never met someone who had been directly part of the history I learned. But in Budapest, after going through that museum I couldn't help but think about how most of the people I'm walking by or ordering food from may have been alive during the dictatorship. It was amazing, and sad. It was an emotional museum, but worth the visit. It definitely can be done in less than 4 hours - we just got sucked in I guess!
Afterwards we set off together for more sight seeing...
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After walking around and taking photos on my own
I returned to my hostel to go out with other solo travelers. The hostel I stayed at was really good about having something to do every night led by someone from the hostel. To stay at the hostel you had to be under 40 and in a group of 4 or less, so it wasn't a cliquey place and everyone was young, which was nice. We went to a bar by the opera house, and after being with them for an hour (a couple Australians, a New Zealander, a couple Canadians and a Portuguese man) I met up with my friend Chelsea's brother.
Before I left for Budapest, I did a simple shout out on Facebook asking if friends knew anyone in Budapest who could take me out for a night. My friend Chelsea from University of Oregon said her brother once lived there and he would be visiting while I was there. So her brother Marcus met with me and took me to two ruinpubs to meet a couple of his friends. The ruinpubs are these bars in the old Jewish district and they're in these cool buildings, some are giant and old. His friends Csilla and Peter were really nice - they were Hungarian and had lived in Budapest for some time and told me a little about the bars we were at and how they liked Budapest. It was a good first night all in all; I had a lot of fun and met really nice people. I was still nervous about the solo traveling after first getting there, but by the end of the first night I wasn't worried. Even if they are only going to know you for one night, when you're traveling alone in Europe people want friends. It's like you have this 1-3 day friend group that you'll never know again.
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My first night in Budapest - I was really tired when I got to Budapest because of all the traveling I had done and from being in Göteborg the weekend right before. Only one night and 5 hours of sleep in Uppsala between the trips! So the first thing I did was take a nap. Then I went out when it was already getting dark. I walked in a loop through the city center to see some of the main sites: the Opera House, St. Stephen's Basilika, the Parliament building, the Buda skyline along the Danube River.
Some basics to know about Budapest, the capital of Hungary (from Wiki):
1.74 million residents in 2011, with a 3.3 million population in the commuter area
main language is Hungarian (Magyar)
primary religion is Christianity
1873: Unification of Buda, Óbuda (west side of the Danube), and Pest (east side of the Danube) to become Budapest
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Posts on Budapest and the Lucia Gasque still to come!
I also have to pack and clean my room in less than 24 hours - so close to being home I can taste it! So we'll see when I have time to post more... depends on how my packing goes :)
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food! The best Swedish meatballs I've had while in Sweden - at Smaka restaurant in Göteborg. Thanks to my friend Jimmy's roommate for her recommendation!
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Me enjoying Liseberg - hot chocolate in a sled and a REINDEER! So stoked about the reindeer.
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Liseberg! An amusement/theme park in Göteborg. It had a Christmas market, which ended up being a lot of food you're not allowed to bring into the US so I didn't really buy anything here, but I enjoyed lunch, wandering around, the lights, the animals, and the hot chocolate! I was about to freeze to death though - it was -13 C (8.5 F) or colder the whole time! eek! That's too cold to walk around an outdoor Christmas market for a few hours!
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Göteborg, Sverige (Gothenburg, Sweden) - 2nd largest city in Sweden at around 500,000 residents. Located on the west coast of Sweden in the south, across from Denmark. It's an industrial port city, but it has a lot of charm.
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