Budapest
After celebrating my birthday with my friends yesterday I thought it’s about time to post about my birthday celebration with my parents. For my birthday they bought me a ticket to Budapest for the weekend. They were already in Hungary on holiday so they’d drive to Budapest and meet me there. It was an awesome weekend and an awesome birthday!
I’ve passed Budapest loads of times by car and saw some of the beautiful landmarks driving by them (like heroes square). So I was really curious to explore the city for a couple of days.
I’m too lazy to shrink and upload all my pictures so here’s only a few. You can check out facebook for some more photos: Facebook Photo Album.
I arrived at the Ferihegy airport on sunday afternoon and was met with a blazing heat. It was 35 degrees celcius!! After checking into the appartment (where we first met with the reception by reading a printed A4 stuck on the door ‘be back in a minute’). After waiting for 15 minutes we could check in 
. We spent the rest of the day walking the streets of Budapest. Which included me almost getting mugged!!! I’ve never been mugged in my life! This was so weirrrrd. I was carrying a … errrr.. how do you call it??
A thingy like that. And I always wear those things to the back.. which is asking for it, I know. My mum always tried to tell me. Of course I never listened. Anyway, after we walked through a subway station and took the stairs back up I suddenly felt a little pressure on my butt lol. So I turned around and there was this guy really close to me and staring at me if I was crazy. When I looked at my bag the zipper was open. At this moment I thought “FREAKIN FUCK THAT GUY HAS MY STUFF’ so I actually put my hand on his chest and said ‘hey, what you doin’ lol. he just kept staring as if I was inane. I then checked if my stuff was actually still there and it was.. so I guess I was just in time with noticing. But.. that was weird!!!
Soo… I was lucky and my iphone and wallet was still safely in my bag, which I carried on the fron from that moment on. As ugly as I may find it.
Anyhoo.. after that kind encounter with the people of Budapest we c0ntinued our walk to the Donau and had a nice beer there.
cheers!
The next morning we set out to find a Dutch pub for the football match that afternoon. According to my city guide we had to find the pub Old Amsterdam. It was pouring rain this morning, but we set out like real troopers anyway.
walking in the rain…
Only to find that the pub is no more. We continues on to drink coffee in a really famous coffeehouse (almost all budapest’s coffeehouses are famous, or so it seems). But this one was really pretty. It was/is a literary cafe and it has been there since forever. I’d really love to go back there some day. It was a really nice place.
enjoying a cup of coffee with hungarian chocolates
The rest of the day we walked some more and more and more. In the meantime trying to find a Dutch pub.. in the end we decided to settle on an Irish pub so that we could at least understand the commentary. But, we had no luck, because when we wanted to make a quick stop at the apartment to drop the stuff we bought we miscalculated the time and ended up missing the beginning of the match before we even reached the apartment lol. We actually had a really nice time watching the game from our apartment room though. Mumzy even tried to understand the commentary in magyar (with not much luck).
That evening we went for another walk to Pest.
But not before eating at a nice little restaurant where my father claims to have eaten the best chicken he has EVER had. That’s impressive!
restaurant with best chicken ever (according to dad)
The next day we decided to go by car to heroes square, because my mother had been walking with blisters for 2 days and couldn’t take the pain anymore. It was actually really nice to drive there though, because it meant we could take some picnic stuff. Heroes square is next to the city park so we ended up chilling in the park for a small hour afterwards. Also ate some pie at this famous restaurant. Somehow I ended up on a picture with our waiter. Weirrrrd.
heroes square
city park
at Gundel restaurant. i think me and waiter look like married rich couple (apart from his name badge)
In the afternoon we took a little cartrip along the Donau and ended up in the city of Budapest again (after enjoying some more drinks on a boat).
In the city we were treated on a real cultural festival, with dance and music and everything. A nice way to end the little weekend 
. I feel like we did a lot of other things as well, but it was a lot of being there is more than talking about it. Like the endless amount of times we sat down on a terrace and enjoyed the beautiful buildings and places in Budapest. It really is a very beautiful city!
Next day I already had to go back. The flight back was the worst I ever had!! We had so much turbulence it wasn’t funny! I’m not that afraid of turbulence, but this time they didn’t warn us in advance and it was during the landing.. so you’re already getting closer and closer to the ground and the plane was making a lot of curves so sometimes it really felt like we were just crashing right then and there. The turbulence was so bad that my stomach literally dropped (you know, like in a roller coaster) a couple of times. But, of course, we made it to the ground safely.
I actually did some studying as well in Budapest. Every night I read 2 chapters of the book I had to learn for my test I had the day after I returned. And I passed that test .
I had my colloquium yesterday and I passed that too . Handed in another report today. Am still waiting on a grade for another test, but if that’s a pass as well then I only have one test left on July 7th and then I’m no student no more!
Like I said in the beginning.. I celebrated my birthday with my friends yesterday, which was a lot of fun as usual. More on that later!!
BTW, I’m LOVING the weather in Holland lately. Sunshine is a real good friend of mine .
See you’zzzz!
