Day 38 - Budapest

We got up late, then justu kinda lazed around and took out time eating breakfast. We got out money back for the last two nights that we were supposed to spend at the Marco Polo and put on our bags and headed down to another hostel we found yesterday closer to the river and down more in the middle of everything. The Marco Polo just was too far out and wasn't a great place for meeting people.

So we got into our new place, hit an internet place for abit (caught up on my hockey stats...go Lindross, McCabe, and the Leafs!) then headed across the river again to Buda. Budapest I guess is broken into two cities on either side of the river, Buda and Pest; we're staying in Pest. Buda seems like the older part of town and is built up on a bit of a hill and the old part of town was built with huge walls as a fortress i guess to keep attackers and invaders out in the middle ages. So we got within the walls and wandered around going to the palace and the castle looking part with the big church behind it. Pretty cool part of town. We took a bunch of pics from up on the fortress walls looking back at Pest over the river with the two main bridges connecting them (a pretty big suspension bridge and what they call the chain bridge, which is the most impressive looking of the two bridges with two big lions guarding each end of the bridge). I think of good old Kevin MacLean everytime i walk across the bridges.

After hanging out in Buda for the whole afternoon, we came back to our hostel, the Mellow Mood Hostel, and slept till 8:30ish, then went looking for dinner. We could tell we definately weren't in Italy anymore (i miss Italy) because it took forever to find anywhere to eat. It felt like there just weren't any places around at all.

Finally, close to 10ish, we found somewhere to eat. We ate our dinner watching football (soccer) highlights, when all of a sudden the Avalanche/Canucks game from the night before came on! We had been about to leave, but decided we had to watch some, even though we already knew who won, but it was still our first post-strike, NHL game, so we grabbed a beer and watched the first period and a half of the game. At one point Avril Lavigne came on the music in the restaurant and we felt like we were right back in Canada for a few minutes while sitting downtown Budapest...haha.

Afterwards we just came back to the hostel and hung out for a bit, then went to bed.

Can't think of a single funny or otherwise story about today at all. Well, i guess except for the random people trying to get you to go to their strip clus. They're very persistent that you should go with them to their clubs with 'Big tits, big beers, small price'. We're not those kinda guys though. And broke. But if you're reading this and you're a rich dirtbag, this is your kinda place. Not to mention the hookers walking around non stop asking you if you want to buy them a drink...