Archive for the ‘hungary’ Category
Struggling to Sighisoara
Our destination of choice in Romania was the fortified hill town of Sighisoara (roughly pronounced si-gi-swa-ra) and we almost didn’t make it here. We got the overnight train from Budapest. What should have been simple turned into a very complicated journey. Read the rest of this entry »
Couchsurfing with Janos
We love this whole couchsurfing thing. Janos, our host in Budapest, was our 6th host on this trip and like almost all the others, he was a star. Janos is a self-employed translator while he also manages a PhD which he’s nearly completed. He just has to put the finishing touches to a thesis about why Norwegian people have twice decided not to join the EU. Read the rest of this entry »
A Walk in Pest
Today it was time for the other half of Budapest. We’d walked through Buda, the older part the day before and now wanted to explore something of Pest. The first place we headed to was the Houses of Parliament because Janos had helpfully found out that tours of it are free for EU citizens. Tours though are pretty popular and when we arrived at 9:45 for the 10am tour, we were given tickets for 12 o’clock. We were glad we had to wait though because we discovered something even Janos didn’t know about. Read the rest of this entry »