Our hostel was located quite close to the centre, so all the way around Budapest we took on foot. The first stop on the way to Buda was the trade hall. Taken like from pre-war album, building was full of colorful stalls and products, which seemed to scream “buy me, you won’t regret!”.Selling counters full of salami, paprika, products from all the regions… few raws further handmade beautiful dolls and table-cloths lots of sellers, lots of customers, lots of forints, very Budapestian :) With new – of course we weren’t assertive – purchase we moved further on to Buda. First stop – Castle in the rock. Everything was ok.. until I heard Poles, behaving like a herd of buffalo – later I got to know that this church, well actually a chapel had significant place in Polish history. The more we moved, the more hung(a)ry we were… but wonderful views of Budapest’s panorama was giving us more power. It was artificial feeling as we could get to know later. Next steps were taken to the castle, Fishers bastille and on.. I must admit that we were there on Saturday and all the time we were meeting just married couples walking, taking pictures in the Old Town. Willy-nilly we were recorded on few wedding video-tapes…

Tired – as later counted we walked several kilometers during that weekend – we decided to go to some of the famous baths… And here I would put a curtain of silence.. because as we got to know we have chosen, the wrong one.. very wrong.. bleh.. :P

In the evening we went to eat some traditional Hungarian meal – we agreed to take famous Pörkölt and we didn’t regret. After such a source of energy, legs lead us to Moulin Rouge club – really good décor – but the music… oj.. good that later in the other room the console was taken by Spanish DJ.. ;)

Sunday’s morning wasn’t painful. Well maybe because of that it began at 11 am ;) With big plans… and little pressure of time – we had to live in the evening – we moved on to Pest. Firstly to the synagogue- the biggest in Europe. Actually it was my first visit in synagogue… and probably the last one. Not because it wasn’t interesting.. but the Jewish lobbing really discourages to visit such places.

To have a contrast, we went to St.Istvan (Stephan) Basilic – huge temple, able to welcome 8,500 participants during the service. Beautiful baroque-décor made really big impression. Next few hours we wasted on trying to get to Parilament (all tickets were already distributed – E.U. citizens can enter for free) and to House of Terror – we were warned that it can be already closed. We didn’t think to long – and willing to wash off bad impression of the first bath, we went to the most famous – Gelert Bath. Shown in several films, complex of pools, saunas and thermal basins let us finally relax…

Travelling with Hungarian student’s card is really cheap, for roundtrip to Budapest we paid in total 2,300 HUF, while one night in hostel cost 2,500 Forints. What’s more, I advice everyone who’s going to Budapest, to book the hostel in advance. The city is very popular and although in internet you can find tens of hostels, during the weekend it’s almost impossible to find free place.

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