Woke up and had a bit of breakfast at the place before walking a little ways to meet up the free walking tour in front of the massive parliament building. As is usually the case, its a very informative and enjoyable tour that takes us a bit a ways around. After that finishes, we grab a bite for lunch at Quing dong which was some delicious vietnamese grub. When we finish our meal, we walk down through the pedestrian areas to the market to check it out.
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| Budapest parliament building in all its glory |
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| Lil horsey statue for scale |
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| Flag flapping in the wind |
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| Bigger flag flapping |
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| Crinkly getting to know the area |
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| Definitely have some great architecture here |
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| Crinkly getting presidentially recognized |
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| One of the few remaining communist statues in town |
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| Cool lil fountain in front of this memorial that had sensors such that when you approached, the jets there would go off so you could walk inside |
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| Better view of the memorial |
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| Saint Stephens church |
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| Crinkly appreciating this tour of Budapest |
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| The eye of Budapest |
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| Buda is looking tempting |
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| Complex on top of the hill |
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| More Buda views |
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| Beautiful architecture |
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| Crinkly meeting some statue friends |
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| Crinkly remembering when his brother went to Vietnam |
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| Marc is unimpressed with Crinklys new friend |
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| Found us the market |
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| Inside the market |
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| Were going a scooting |
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| One of the many bridges in town |
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| We have made it to the Buda side, looking over at Pest |
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| Churches and boats |
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| Found a place to start going up the hill |
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| Found a nice lil spot to grab a drink |
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| Starting to get some views |
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| Parliament building and the pedestrian bridge that was under construction |
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| Crinkly loving the views |
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| Made it to the top of Buda |
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| Lots of construction up here |
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| Thou shall not pass |
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| Church on top of Buda |
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| Huge statue with construction behind trying to disguise itself |
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| Looking out over the city |
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| Beautiful staircase |
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| Other side of the church |
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| The roof decor is pretty impressive |
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| Start making our way down |
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| Beautiful city down below |
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| Had to get a pic of the horse from this view |
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| Such a beautiful and impressive building no matter the angle. |
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| party on the terrace. No but really, somewhere up there there was a day rave going on with beats, bouncers, etc. Was pretty loud. |
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| St. Stephens from afar. towering over rest of the city |
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| Such a pretty city. How can you not enjoy this view? |
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| Found a nice lil church on the walk back to the place |
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| Crinklys shephard with a nice lil building in the background. |
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| Yet another view of the parliament. I know you aint complaining though :) |
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| Just 2 friends enjoying a great day in the Buda! |
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| Looking down the river from the bridge |
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| Bridge walking in the golden hour |
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| Crinkly enjoying the water views |
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| We found a waving flag |
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| Sunset cruise looks nice |
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| Hilly sunset |
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| So their lamp holders are dragons... cause WTF not? SWEET! |
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| Waiting for our feast fit for kings. |
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| Crinkly trying to figure out which of his local relatives he wants to meet |
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| Good choice Crinkly |
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| Crinkly met a new potential Sherpa |
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| dropped in here to grab a beer |
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| New Sherpa approves of the new place |
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| Sherpas being ignored trying to order some drinks at the final stop of the night |
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| Drinking some locally produced wine in what I imagine is one of the more up-kept ruin bars? |
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| Got a few options to choose from |
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| His turn to be ignored haha |
After walking a bit through there, we jump on scooters and head over to the Buda side of the river where our scooters randomly just stop working cause I guess we found a dead zone. Walk up the hill and grab a drink at Monkey cafe before walking more around the castle to get some views of the city below. Walk our way down and back to our side of the river via a different bridge and get back to the place to take a quick nap. After we rise, we go to Pozsonyi restaurant near the place which had delicious local grub (you know youre in a good place when you communicate with hand signs and pointing at the menu cause no one speaks each others language). Walk over to the rail after that and take it over to the jewish quarter to have a beer at Beer point which is a nice chill place. Try to go to the ruin bar Szimpla Kert but the line is outrageously long (down the street and might have wrapped around the corner) so we keep walking and wind up at Fekete Kutya for a beer then over to Kisuzem for some whiskey and local wine. Both places were pretty packed but no line and had a cool hipster vibe to them. Rain was in the forecast so after the last place we get on the rail and get back home just before the rain starts coming down. Have a drink there and call home to catch up with some friends of ours before bed.
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