Hungary for More!
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006From Vienna I hoped on the bus and headed about 3 hours east to the city of Budapest in Hungary. For those that don’t know…Budapest is where they invented the game Hungry, Hungry Hippos…although they used to spell it Hungary with the A. Back a long time ago they used to have Hippos in the Danube river which runs right the heart of the city. Many people used to die trying to cross the river because they would get eaten by the Hippos. Now the hippos are obviously extinct but the game lives on in the living rooms of children all over the world.
I usually have a good feel for a city right when I enter and I had good feelings about Budapest. It is a good mix of eastern and western Europe. Old churches and statues line the city streets, a great walking city. Budapest is also famous for it’s baths. They have natural hot spring baths all ove the city. Yesterday me and a group of friends went to one. Basically it cost about 12 dollars to use the facilities for about 3 hours. They have numerous pulls with water of all different temperatures. They have a massive pool outside where the water is heated naturally. It was quite cold so to be in the water felt amazing. While in the pool I thought it would be fun to ask a local to pull my finger. I didn’t quite understand what I was saying but when I gestured what I wanted him to do he understood. He gave a quick tug and unfortunately for me and the rest of the people in the pool, there were no bubbles…ok, non of that happened.
All in all ive spent about 4 day in Budapest and i’ve enjoyed all of it. Definitely a city I would love to come back to again if possible.
Tomorrow I leave Budapest for a destination that I will not tell you. If i did happen to tell anyone please dont say. I will all let you guess to see if you can figure out where I am going to next. I have a feeling no one will guess it as I had no intention of going to this place.
I hope you enjoyed the updates, see you soon.
Gagnonius