When we got to Budapest, it took us a while to find where the metro was, but eventually found it and made our way to the hostel. It is called the Zen Hostel and that is a good description. You are given slippers as you come in the door and there is a very laid back attitude around the whole place.
We met a few people in our room. One is from New Zealand and two are from Australia. They were talking about going to something called Exit Games, where you get locked in a room and solve clues to get out... Um, Awesome! It is definitely something we want to do.
We head out to walk around, stopped by the box office to get a ticket for the ballet here, and some really good seats were only $6.60. Not too shabby!
Then we walked some of the city and saw some great sights, such as a big basilica, parliament building, castles, and the Danube River. The Danube splits the city in half. On one side is Buda and Obuda and on the other is Pest. We are staying on the Pest side.
We went to dinner and had some traditional Hungarian food. I got a Chicken Paprika dish with a goulash soup. It was good! At dinner, we started talking about all the things we want to do while we are here, and were surprised that this is the city that we have so much we want to do even though we knew nothing about this city before we showed up.
After that went to see the Danube at night. The castles on the far side are beautiful all lit up.
That looks magical!
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