Budapest Day 1 -

The christmas Trip had started with me travelling to Berlin Germany to meet Vince and board the Easyjet plane to Budapest. After about 1 hour of flight and some long needed chatting, we arrived in Budapest. Ori and Richard were already arrived and we had no trouble finding each other.

The next step was to get into the city and find the hostel. The problem was the automatic bus ticket dispenser only accepted coins and that no one among us had any Hungarian Forint coins to buy the bus ticket! After some difficult conversations in English with the bus driver, he let us stayed without tickets. We got to the metro station, got some tickets with the help of a local lady who knew English, and finally boarded the metro to the city center.

The city is distinctively eastern European. There are beautiful scalptures on almost every single building. ( I will post pictures soon because I used Richard's CF card, and he is travelling to Prague and Vienna, so most of the pictures wouldn't be avaliable until at least mid Jan. )



At the hostel

Unfortunately, pretty much everything was closed at the time. We just wondered around the city after it got dark. The city Budapest is actually composed of two separate cities separated by the Danube river. One is Buda and one is Pest, and there are 3 or 4 major bridges linking the two cities. The views along the river is
just breath taking. The parliment is built on a hill, and they light it up really nicely during the night.



After we got back to the hostel, we exchanged Christmas gifts. I got Vince a french brand scarf, Richard a book on the origion of different kinds of beer, and chipped in for Ori's Ipod. Ori and Richard got me a authentic Swiss Army knife! yeah! and Vince got me a nice sweater and a winter hat. Thanks guys!



This is me opening a bottle of wine with the knife.



Cheers!


However, everyone was hungery as hell after a long day of travel. We went out to try out luck again, and guess what, we stumbled upon a chinese restaurant that opens all year around! Who can say no?



good stuff...

After the dinner we went back to the hostel and called a early night.