 | SLOVENIA SIDE TRIP-HUNGARY-PART FOUR
2009-10-23, Lake Balaton, Hungary. By: no2ndhome | | (Excerpt from my book: OUR SUMMER IN SLOVENIA, AMAZON.COM)
After a day-and-a-half to travel few hundered miles, we finally left Maribor and Slovenia about noon, our destination for the night, Lake ... |
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 | Family vacation at lake Balaton
2009-06-25, Zamardi, Hungary. By: krapulax | | We were at largest central European lake called Balaton.
The Balaton is the warmest lake in central, and eastern europe.
Our place at Zamardi (Somogy county), south side of Balaton. I think the ... |
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 | Budpest and Croatia - part one
2009-05-24, Budapest, Hungary. By: krisjohn | | So I spoke too soon about not being able to practice my French with the deaf French guy in our hostel. I was at the computer the other night and I could hear him trying to talk to Maggie, who obviousl... |
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 | More Budapest
2009-05-22, Budapest, Hungary. By: krisjohn | | Today was another great day in Budapest. We set out in the morning to walk to and up Castle Hill. We first stopped at the market to buy bread, cheese, and fruit for lunch. While most people at the ... |
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 | Our first 24 hours in Europe
2009-05-21, Budapest, Hungary. By: krisjohn | | Maggie and I made it safely to Budapest, and on time too. My trip started in Philadelphia, where security sadly confiscated my peanut butter (which I would hardly consider a liquid). Despite that, t... |
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 | Day30-32 Budapest
2008-06-06, Budapest, Hungary. By: kevingindy | | We spent a few days in Budapest and had a lot of fun. It was one of the hardest cities to get money and the city where we changed crews from the first part of our trip to the second part. The new pe... |
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 | Budapest continues to be beautiful
2008-05-15, Budapest, Hungary. By: ktmac | | Budapest continues to be beautiful! Although today the city aspect got to me; on the bus, heat, traffic jam....over an hour to make a like 20min trip. I had patience for a good chunk of it. I conti... |
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| In love with Budapest
2008-04-29, Budapest, Hungary. By: ktmac | | I’m in Budapest and I love this city.
To reminise a bit about Romania: we worked with Metro ministries. The ministry itself was challenging at time, but not too difficult: loving cute (but very fi... |
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| Kt is in Eastern Europe
2008-04-05, Budapest, Hungary. By: ktmac | | I'm typing from Budapest Hungary! After driving all day we're here! It was intense at times. The two guys on our team are our drivers (Charlie and Jordan). Pray for them lots as it's tiring! They... |
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 | On the road
2008-03-29, Budapest, Hungary. By: euroteam | | After driving all day yesterday we made it to our first destination! YWAM Budapest!
We drove through Germany and Austria to get here. It's a little unreal that we went through 3 different countries... |
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 | Long walking tour of Budapest
2007-07-02, Budapest, Hungary. By: Aardvark | | This was the day I planned to get to Buda and walk back to Pest. Got up early, around 5:30am, needed to plan the day. Took the M2 (Red Metro line) all the way across the Danube to its next to last sto... |
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 | I see a little bit of Budapest
2007-06-27, Budapest, Hungary. By: aardvark | | Got six hours of sleep my first night in Budapest. Got up and decided to go directly to the nearby Keleti train station where I would be catching my first train in nearly 50 years the next day. [Actua... |
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 | A sunny weekend in Bukk hills
2007-06-29, Miskolc, Hungary. By: krapulax | | The Bukk hills are around Miskolc, and west of Miskolc. A lot of tourist paradise like: Bükkszentkereszt, Bükkszenterzsébet, Lilafüred, Miskolc-Tapolca, Mályi, Kistokaj, Nyékládháza etc..
The touri... |
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| My Tattoo
2007-06-20, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. By: Toxic | | Finally I made it to Hungary and after so many years of waiting I get my tattoo done. It took 15 hours to finish it, I did 2 days in a roll. My head was spinning when I walked out next day from shop.
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 | Thou Shal not...
2007-07-31, Budapest, Hungary. By: ajmartino | | I feel right at home in this antidisestablishmentarian city. Everywhere i go i can smell revolution.
Budapest is Grand. Which according to an Irish girl i met, means it is okay. But it is more tha... |
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 | Day 6 - Home Again
2006-02-26, Budapest, Hungary. By: katalin | | The flight back was really late in the afternoon, and as we had to check out from the Hotel by 10am and only got picked up at 1pm, we had 3 hours to kill in the lobby. Very very long three hours. Mari... |
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| Day 5 - Yippieh, a Day Off!
2006-02-25, Budapest, Hungary. By: katalin | | Today was our day off – I took the chance to go into one of the many Spas. Most people of my group had gone the day before, but I wanted to spend time with my friend Emese (who was only there for two ... |
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 | Day 4 - Andrassy University
2006-02-24, Budapest, Hungary. By: katalin | | Today we visited the Andrassy University, where you can get a post graduate degree in politics, economy or law – and the lectures are held in German. This was especially interesting for me, as I had c... |
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 | Day 3 - Castle District and Parliament
2006-02-23, Budapest, Hungary. By: katalin | | Sightseeing plans for today included the castle district and a visit to the Parliament. I absolutely love that building and had been looking forward to that visit a lot. But I hardly understood anythi... |
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 | Day 2 - Danube and Market Hall
2006-02-22, Budapest, Hungary. By: katalin | | On our first „actual day“ in Budapest we visited the Constitutional court. Though that is too much said, as for security reasons we couldn’t actually get into the Court. We met one of the staff who to... |
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 | Day 1 - Arrival at Budapest
2006-02-21, Budapest, Hungary. By: katalin | | Part of our practical legal training is a „class excursion“, where we get a couple days off without actually having to take vacation. You’re supposed to go abroad and get to know another country’s leg... |
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 | Tour in Zemplen hills
2007-05-15, Tokaj, Hungary. By: krapulax | | We went to a Zemplen hills, like Tokaj, Sátoraljaújhely, Kőkapu (my favorit place in Hungary), Telkibánya, Gönc, Boldogkőváralja. The air is very clean, the forest is beautifull, and the tok... |
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 | Buda and Pest
2007-05-31, Budapest, Hungary. By: kirmish | | Our day started with a trek to Parliament house which is an awesome building much nicer than our one in Canberra. It looked more like a church than a parliament house though. After this we went to Sai... |
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 | Working on a pre-mature tan!
2007-03-31, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | Ok, this is perhaps the lamest entry ever, but seriously it is something I have to tell you Canadians about. Europe is having a crazy year in terms of weather. It has been one of the warmest winters i... |
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| Mom Comes to Budapest!
2007-04-20, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | The day after my birthday my mom arrived in Budapest. For Christmas my dad and I surprised her with a 2 week trip to Budapest, so it was something we had all been looking forward to for a very long ti... |
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| The big 2-1
2007-03-31, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | Oh man, I am about 3 weeks behind on my journals…thank-goodness they were very memorable and not about to leave my memory any time soon!
Who would have ever guessed that I would celebrate my 21st b... |
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| Finn Forest (aka Rona)
2007-03-18, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | Ohhh….do I have a story. I am quite aware that it is going to sound a lot less funny written than it was in person, but if nothing else I wanted to write it down for my own personal memories sake.
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| Hungarian for Dummies
2007-02-26, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | When my brother, sister and I were very young my mom posted a large alphabet over one of our kitchen walls so that when we were eating, doing crafts or just hanging out we would talk about the picture... |
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 | The Last Supper
2007-02-20, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | By Monday night, we had a full on international hostel at our apartment. All together there were 9 people sleeping here representing many countries from around the world. For fun, we decided to have a... |
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| Holloko
2007-02-19, Holloko, Hungary. By: robing | | From Salgotarjan we got on another bus to head to Holloko, a very small traditional Hungarian village back on the plains. The bus ride was really interesting because we drove through many villages. Ob... |
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| Salgotarjan
2007-02-18, Salgotarjan, Hungary. By: robing | | The next morning we got out of bed early, looked around Eger a little bit more and then headed to. The nice thing about traveling by bus is you get to drive through many small towns and see the landsc... |
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| Eger
2007-02-18, Eger, Hungary. By: robing | | Eger was a true gem of a town. All the travel books I brought with me claimed it was a idealistic little place, and it definitely was.
Allison and I left Saturday morning for an adventure into the ... |
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| Csango
2007-02-15, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | On Thursday night we went folk dancing. There is absolutely nothing comparable to this in Canada. It is not at all a bunch of old people dancing around trying to preserve Hungarian culture. It is just... |
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 | Hungarian Experiences
2007-02-20, Budapest, Hungary. By: allisonb | | Hey!!!
I am still in Budapest and it is amazing. I am totally in love with travelling again and I don't want to ever stop travelling. Almost all of my excitment to go home has vanished and been re... |
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| Going to the Opera!
2007-02-15, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | On Tuesday evening Allison and I went to the State Opera House to listen to the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra and a guest conductor who I think was quite famous, but I don’t know for sure because th... |
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 | I love Budapest and visiting Robin
2007-02-14, Budapest, Hungary. By: allisonb | | Szia!
I have so much to tell since my last update; I will do my best to get in everything without making this to long.
First a few quick things about my last days in Spain. Most importantly, I f... |
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| Allison is HERE!
2007-02-08, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | On Saturday evening, my good friend Allison, who is from Calgary arrived in Budapest to spend the week with me. It was sooo nice to see a face from home. She had some very exciting stories to tell abo... |
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| Not so little update
2007-02-08, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | A couple of things since my last entry….
World Famous Bath Houses
Yes, these baths are as fantastic as they are hyped up to be. It turns out Budapest has many natural hot springs underneath the ... |
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| Super Bowl 41
2007-02-05, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | In true North American fashion, last night our house hosted the Super Bowl party for everyone in our class. Most of the Europeans opted out because they had never seen an American football game in the... |
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| My two favorite
2007-01-30, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | Learning about Hungary has been quite interesting. In high school I learned a lot about the communist rule in Eastern Europe, but hearing it from the perspective of a Hungarian put a whole new light o... |
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| First Day of School
2007-01-29, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | Robin Vagjok …that means “My name is Robin” in Hungarian. Oh, and Budapest is prounouced Budapeshhht. Not the way we would pronouce it.
This week marks a whole new chapter in my Europe adventure. S... |
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| House of Terror
2007-01-24, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | Today we went to the House of Terror Museam. It was actually home to the communist terror organizations as well as the home of the communist party. In the basement it was actually a torture dungeon wi... |
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| Back in Budapest
2007-01-23, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | I am almost caught up now...so I thought I would respond to some of the questions people have been asking me.
The best essentials I brought with me on my trip - my MEC backpack, the towel I was gif... |
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| I HAVE GOT INTERNET - I think
2007-01-16, Budapest, Hungary. By: robing | | In Budapest I have discovered some great architecture, perfect little streets and everything else I have need to stay alive until up to this point. But, tonight I may have hit a gold mine. I found a w... |
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