We arrived Monday night at our fabulous hostel in a great location, went straight out (after some great advice from the 2 guys who own/run the hostel) for some proper Hungarian food. Dan had Devil Ragout and I (Heather) had some sort of pork dish that was bloody amazing! We were a little worried about the language barrier but there isn't one, Hungarians speak great English.
Second day we went on a Danube River cruise, both Buda and Pest are very pretty and yet they are very different (and did you know the average age of a car in Budapest is 7 years?-the tour provided some very random information). We spent the afternoon lounging in one of the many thermal baths around Budapest, and ended up meeting an American who was born in Hungary and was over visiting family. He gave us some fantastic background about Hungarian people. We ended up spending the evening drinking with Czaba, sampling all the different Hungarian beers, which we discovered don't leave you with a terrible hangover!
Third day we went to the Statue Park on the outskirts of town with a guide named Asock (that's how it sounded!)He was great, statue park is filled with lots of the statues that were erected around the city during communism, after the 1989 revolution they were taken down and set up in this cool if not strange park. Then we visited a wine cellar that is built into the limestone under Buda. The wine cellar ages wines from all over Hungary, at the end of the tour we got to sample about 12 different wines (hence why the tour is called the Tipsy Lenin Tour). Some were very good, who knew Hungary did wine!
Going to spend our last night searching out more fabulous food and beer, next stop Bratislava!
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