Our trip to Budapest and Krakow was so jampacked that if I described everything we did, you would probably die of old age. So here’s the visual version:
As in capital cities everywhere, all over Budapest you can see padlocks chained to trees, fences, bridges…lovers are supposed to engrave their names onto them, lock them to something then throw the key in the river and their love will last forever. Judging by the rust, these two have been together a long time…
Forget goulash, this is Hungarian cuisine at its finest. Cheese wrapped in chocolate. ( Before you judge, think chocolate cheesecake) So so so so delicious and sadly only available in Hungary. If you’re headed that way send me a box or five in the post.
I fell in love with the trams in Budapest, they’re so Eastern-European-Der-Vorleser-ish.
Pretty roof tiles on a church betraying Hungary’s Turkish influences.
Market traders taking pride in their displays.
The best night out in Budapest – In the Jewish district, plenty of ruin bars can be found. Built in the dilapidated ruins from the Communist area, these bars are sprawling, full of secret staircases and hidden nooks, piled high with Trabis, bathtubs, kaleidoscopes and films projected on the wall of horses learning how to swim. Naturally.
A poignant memorial of the Holocaust – shoes strewn along the riverbank mark the spot where many Jews were shot into the river by the Nazis. Someone had been here before us and left a white rose by every pair of shoes.
The Szechenyi (YES to spelling it right first time without looking) Baths, where we spent a very relaxing day in the naturally hot water, absorbing the minerals until we were prunes and people watching characters like these guys:
Legends.
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