Gee Wizz, that was Budapest!

With time running low, we needed to sort out our next destination. A quick look on skyscanner and we locked in cheap flights to Budapest on Wizz air. Knew next to nothing bout Wizz air, and they knew next to nothing about operating an airline... We turned up at the airport on the and checked in. The boarding time was 8:15pm and take off was 8:45pm. you needed to board on time, as seating was on a first in, first seated basis. We queued at 8pm anb at 8:30pm there still wasn't a plane at the end of the airbridge. 8:45pm rolls round and we hadn't moved an inch, but atleast a plane had turned up. Round 9pm another plane load of people turned up. Turns out the flight to Prague had had its bags loaded on our plane, so we had to switch planes with them... By round 9:45pm we were finally boarded and ready to take off... What a fricken nightmare... Oh, also, Wizz air cram you on their flights, there is no leg room, Asty couldn't even sit up straight for whole the 3hr flight!

We finally made it to Budapest at 2am. After a taxi driver attempted to scam us into a taxi, we caught the airport shuttle to our hostel. The hostel room was ridiculously hot. I'm talking that everyone was sweating in bed. Very damp sheets in the morning! It was almost as bad as the overnight bus to Nha Trang in Vietnam... Almost. We slept in the next day, but joint the afternoon free walking tour. The walking your gave us a good tour of the city and a good run down of the history of Hungary and budapest. One thing that I didn't know before coming here was that Budapest used to be 3 individual cities; old buda, buda, and pest. We crossed the Chain Bridge to Buda and climbed the stairs up to the castle, where you got a sweet view of the city. That night, we grabbed a sweet feed at a restaurant in the Jewish quarter. We joined on a pub crawl that night - was expensive at €15, but was good value. We hit most of the popular bars (apparently - I can't remember any of the names of them), but finished up at a sweet night club with an wicked rooftop bar. We were well past it by that stage tho. 


We had another lazy start to the day... Again it was fricken hot during the night. Not good, especially if you've got a slight hangover! We did find the best solution for the problem tho: the baths in budapest. There are a number of baths round the city, each a lil different (one holds "sparties" where it opens at night and turns into a night club, so you can drink, party and have a spa all in one!) Unfortunately, the "sparties" weren't happening while we were in town, but def sounds like something to come back for. Budapest parties hard man, so def get here at least once. It's cheap as well, well the forint is round 250 to one euro, so you seem rich. We perched in the baths all afternoon, hopping from one to another, even had moi-perch in one of them. Feeling recovered and refreshed, we headed back to the hostel to drop our stuff and them head out for a feed and to watch the euro quarter between Portugal and Czech Republic. Portugal won 1-0 with a stunner header from Ronaldo. We met these classic old English dudes there and had some classic yarns.


This morning, we checked out and jumped on a train to Bratislava in Slovakia. Not staying long there, we were told one day is plenty. After that it's on to Austria (Vienna and Salzberg at this stage), so time to crank that annoying yodeling song again...

We've booked the Eurostar from Paris back to London for the 16th of july, so looks like the real world is approaching fairly soon... Dammit... Still got a couple of weeks to work our way back to Paris tho!