Budapest part 2…late release…
Ok, I know this is late but luckily for me Budapest really left an impact… check out article soon to appear in Canberra Times…
Ok, where was I? Ohhhhhhhhhh…. The Chocolate bar! And by that I mean the Chocolate café… but y’know. The three of us went and absolutely stuffed ourselves on hot chocolates and the like… including, chocolate fondue! Hmmmmmmmm I will never eat chocolate again, well maybe just a little bit… I’ve mentioned this before but why does chocolate in Europe taste just sooooooooooooooooo much better than at home. Damn Cadbury’s and their stupid anti-melting chemicals!
Another thing I really feel I should mention in regards to Budapest is the Labyrinth. David Bowie would be jealous we had such an adventure under the castle in Buda with all the scary music and drum beats and dark caves… we took lots of stupid pictures too… fun times. Worth a mention.
What else?!?! Oh yes!!! Fruit soup – beware all and steer clear!! Eirin ordered this in an effort to get French onion soup…. This is one thing about not being ok with the whole Hungarian language thing (or the really, really, really badly translated menu) eventually Eirin and I narrowed the French onion soup options down to ‘soup with panky’ or ‘fruit soup’ … fruit soup was evidently the wrong choice. It came and was purple, with cream piled on top, nothing could be sweeter in the world and I hope Eirin doesn’t mind me saying but this was one of those days when you’re travelling and you really should be lying at home drinking black tea and maybe eating some plain rice if you can hold it in. Bad, bad choice. Just looking at it made us queasy.
Ha ha… and so now every time we are facing a menu we don’t understand, or we get something we really didn’t think we ordered we call it a ‘fruit soup experience’. Good times…
Ah ha ha… AH!!!!! Sometime around this time in Budapest we had the return of Ota. You may recall that Ota was the brain-fried psycho at the hotel in Prague who totally freaked us out with his loud stereo and choice of ‘soundtrack from Hitchcock’s psycho’ along with ‘U2’… honestly what could be more scary… anyway… it was around this time that I received my first hate mail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello!!!! Hate mail/death threats are not something I ever expected to encounter seeing as I generally try and be a nice person to all people I meet. Anyway I believe this was in response to the very reasonable review Eirin and I had left on the booking website that said that mentioned the music and if you like to sleep etc don’t stay here… (by the way don’t book with ‘hostel world they will give psycho hotel owners your email so they can send you threats)… anyway to make a long story short he emailed me saying ‘I hope you spend your next life in pain and suffering’. Nice. Never, Ever, Ever stay there!!!!!!!
Luckily, our lives as always were made easier by Livia and her family who offered to take us to Lake Balaton for the weekend (excuse spelling here) but it’s the largest lake in Hungary and Middle Europe and it’s pretty impressive and very beautiful, as was their house there. We went out for traditional Hungarian food, and relaxed with Markus (have I mentioned him he is the beautiful, huge, timid, German Shepard that belongs to Livia’s family). We also fed swans on the lake and played badminton, a very enjoyable weekend was had by all.
Anyway it was fabulous, so naturally Eirin and I cried when we had to leave for Croatia.
Ok, where was I? Ohhhhhhhhhh…. The Chocolate bar! And by that I mean the Chocolate café… but y’know. The three of us went and absolutely stuffed ourselves on hot chocolates and the like… including, chocolate fondue! Hmmmmmmmm I will never eat chocolate again, well maybe just a little bit… I’ve mentioned this before but why does chocolate in Europe taste just sooooooooooooooooo much better than at home. Damn Cadbury’s and their stupid anti-melting chemicals!
Another thing I really feel I should mention in regards to Budapest is the Labyrinth. David Bowie would be jealous we had such an adventure under the castle in Buda with all the scary music and drum beats and dark caves… we took lots of stupid pictures too… fun times. Worth a mention.
What else?!?! Oh yes!!! Fruit soup – beware all and steer clear!! Eirin ordered this in an effort to get French onion soup…. This is one thing about not being ok with the whole Hungarian language thing (or the really, really, really badly translated menu) eventually Eirin and I narrowed the French onion soup options down to ‘soup with panky’ or ‘fruit soup’ … fruit soup was evidently the wrong choice. It came and was purple, with cream piled on top, nothing could be sweeter in the world and I hope Eirin doesn’t mind me saying but this was one of those days when you’re travelling and you really should be lying at home drinking black tea and maybe eating some plain rice if you can hold it in. Bad, bad choice. Just looking at it made us queasy.
Ha ha… and so now every time we are facing a menu we don’t understand, or we get something we really didn’t think we ordered we call it a ‘fruit soup experience’. Good times…
Ah ha ha… AH!!!!! Sometime around this time in Budapest we had the return of Ota. You may recall that Ota was the brain-fried psycho at the hotel in Prague who totally freaked us out with his loud stereo and choice of ‘soundtrack from Hitchcock’s psycho’ along with ‘U2’… honestly what could be more scary… anyway… it was around this time that I received my first hate mail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello!!!! Hate mail/death threats are not something I ever expected to encounter seeing as I generally try and be a nice person to all people I meet. Anyway I believe this was in response to the very reasonable review Eirin and I had left on the booking website that said that mentioned the music and if you like to sleep etc don’t stay here… (by the way don’t book with ‘hostel world they will give psycho hotel owners your email so they can send you threats)… anyway to make a long story short he emailed me saying ‘I hope you spend your next life in pain and suffering’. Nice. Never, Ever, Ever stay there!!!!!!!
Luckily, our lives as always were made easier by Livia and her family who offered to take us to Lake Balaton for the weekend (excuse spelling here) but it’s the largest lake in Hungary and Middle Europe and it’s pretty impressive and very beautiful, as was their house there. We went out for traditional Hungarian food, and relaxed with Markus (have I mentioned him he is the beautiful, huge, timid, German Shepard that belongs to Livia’s family). We also fed swans on the lake and played badminton, a very enjoyable weekend was had by all.
Anyway it was fabulous, so naturally Eirin and I cried when we had to leave for Croatia.
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