LIVING IN THE PEST
It’s our last morning in Budapest and we really feel like we got a sense for the city in the past 9 days, especially since we were able to bike and transit all over the place, in addition to really settling into our local neighborhood. Yesterday we finally braved the main market Nagycsarnok, which is a three level palace of food, crafts, and pickled goods just south of our apartment. Pretty cool, as the 100 food stalls are still primarily the domain of the locals, while the tourists stick to buying nicknacks upstairs.
Excuse Me, I’d like to buy some hearty bread please!
Today we leave for our first Servas www.usservas.org stay in Eger, about two hours East of Budapest. We are staying with a family of four who live just outside of town and will be eating and experiencing their lives a bit for the next two days. We are very excited, but still need to learn a few more words in Hungarian, although based on our phone calls with them, they speak English quite well. We’ll be sure to pass on good wishes to the Hungarians from America, and try to shore up our reputation a little bit.
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