A very interesting place Budapest, you get off the train and on one side are old, architecturally wonderful buildings, on the other, BK, KFC, Tescos and a sex shop. Once again got lost trying to find my hostel as they don't have signs on the outside of them. Eventually I found it in a fancy protected building with a covered courtyard. The Maverick hostel was pretty small but had all the conveniences and I got to leave my luggage there all day after checking out, even got to have a shower. Met up with an Aussie guy on the train and we went to his hostel for some beer, meet some more Aussies, a German guy, a Polish/Finnish girl, and an American girl. We went out to Morrisons music club that was huge, its covered courtyard was a garden bar. I managed to meet another Aussie tour-group, and was amused by a girl who told me to fuck off, obviously thought she was all that as she had joined our group. She clearly didn't understand that while she may be regarded as attractive where she comes from, she was surrounded by much better looking women. I finally got home at 5.
3 hours sleep later I was out to see the sights, crossed the river and climbed the citadel, then caught a free walking tour at 2. It wasn't as good as the Sandemans ones but still good value. Heard a story about how the bridge would hide in the tunnel with bad weather, saw the presidents house, saw some hussars, heard about how they invaded Austria but the emperor wasn't there, listened to the blue Danube waltz, and saw a statue of a horse with shiny balls (what does shine mean on statue? someones been rubbing it!). Still, that was mainly the Buda part of the city, didn't see much of Pest at all.
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