Budapest

You know how people say it is so cheap to travel from London? Well it isn't when Easy Jet cancels the cheap flight you book to Budapest for a long weekend, and you are forced to fly WIZZAIR instead (bad name, but much better than easy jet... they travel to eastern europe- will be using them again).


Here is a photo of the hard side of european travelling for aussies... it is 4am and the mini cab is waiting for Priscilla and me to deliver us to Luton airport.... Poor Priscilla was sufferring from a servere lack of sleep. She'd just got back from the Greek Islands... hear it does wonders for you sleep patturn.




Our first, most must do thing in Budapest was visit the hot baths... we even were able to get hour long massages and exclaim at the price that it was so cheap (OK... so cheap in comparison to London prices....)

We spent about 4 hours at the baths... Priscilla even bought me some swimmers.... from Tesco.... a whole GBP4. She was fortunate enough to get some one size fits all cossie off a magazine....
The Sunday we spent doing a walking tour around Budapest. This is Heros' Square which has lots of statues of old kings and well known Hungarians.

I learnt a number of valuable (OK trivial) things about Hungary....
1. THe Rubics cube was invented there... by mr rubics
2. The biro was invented there... by mr biro
3. Budapest has the second oldest tube in europe (before you ask... London has the oldest).


This is a well known Hungarian called "anonymous" who wrote down the early history of hungary... Like all cities, this is the statue you touch for good luck....
The little princess by the Danube...
This lion is on the chain bridge which connects Buda to Pest (hence the name). The bridge was designed by a scotsman (i think). He declared that he would jump into the icy danube if there were any problems with the bridge.

Looking at this lion can you see his mistake? The lion has no tongue, so he got to take a swim in the danube.
Our cool tour group, which consited of an unusual bunch that would be hard to come across... Americans and Australians... sometimes you can't help but be surprised.

Hungary is known for paprika... so i had to buy 1/2kg of it.

Priscilla and I finished our time in BUdapest at a lovely coffee house with super lovely cakes... then it was back to london (and some sleep for priscilla)

Next stop is Berlin....