Budapest
Well my last OS jaunt for the year was last weekend in Budapest.. me, blake, ray, pauline, josh, kath, janine and jaco set off for an adventure in a place we really didn't know much about..
beautiful place.. shame about the people.. in general they are so dodgy - trying to short change you all over the place and just no concept of customer service whatsoever... except for our cab driver from the airport who had just retired from being one of Michael Jackson's personal body guards!!.. the ride from the airport to our apartment was definately entertaining with stories of Jacko and his funny ways!!..
food was nice and cheap, - we went to this place called fatal on vaci utca - just south of the elisabeth bridge interesection - the food is huge!, cheap and good - Blake's schnitzel was the size of a dinner plate he had to get a doggy bag..!!..
it was FREEZING!!.. but we went to the Gellert baths on Monday.. was a nice relaxing soak in the warm water.. with lots of old naked women (the thermal baths are separated) but the main pool was mixed (and clothed).. very pretty.. and just nice to
be in water again.. pauline and i made use of all the facilities, the thermal baths, main pool, the sauna, some weird biddae thingy, and the cool plunge pool.. oooh invigorating!.. the boys just sat in the thermal baths and chatted...
the view from the castle at sunset was just gorgeous - we had a reallyc bright sunny day on sunday.. we meant to do a walking tour or a bus tour - but the hangovers and laziness prevented this.. so i suppose that's where i found the trip lacking - no real factual information, just a lot of walking around and looking at things - and eating and drinking ALOT!
but it was cool.. and we saw them erecting multiple christmas trees and the little huts for the christmas markets, so it got me in the festive mood - along with the light sprinkling of snow we got!!..
beautiful place.. shame about the people.. in general they are so dodgy - trying to short change you all over the place and just no concept of customer service whatsoever... except for our cab driver from the airport who had just retired from being one of Michael Jackson's personal body guards!!.. the ride from the airport to our apartment was definately entertaining with stories of Jacko and his funny ways!!..
food was nice and cheap, - we went to this place called fatal on vaci utca - just south of the elisabeth bridge interesection - the food is huge!, cheap and good - Blake's schnitzel was the size of a dinner plate he had to get a doggy bag..!!..
it was FREEZING!!.. but we went to the Gellert baths on Monday.. was a nice relaxing soak in the warm water.. with lots of old naked women (the thermal baths are separated) but the main pool was mixed (and clothed).. very pretty.. and just nice to
be in water again.. pauline and i made use of all the facilities, the thermal baths, main pool, the sauna, some weird biddae thingy, and the cool plunge pool.. oooh invigorating!.. the boys just sat in the thermal baths and chatted...
the view from the castle at sunset was just gorgeous - we had a reallyc bright sunny day on sunday.. we meant to do a walking tour or a bus tour - but the hangovers and laziness prevented this.. so i suppose that's where i found the trip lacking - no real factual information, just a lot of walking around and looking at things - and eating and drinking ALOT!
but it was cool.. and we saw them erecting multiple christmas trees and the little huts for the christmas markets, so it got me in the festive mood - along with the light sprinkling of snow we got!!..
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