Day 139 Last day of Budapest

Today marks the last day of my visit to Budapest.

We left the Grand hostel, quite early in the morning. I have to say, this hostel is just about the weirdest hostel I have ever stayed at. The hostel is right next to the tram rail, so throughout the night, every one hour or so, there is a tram roaring through, waking us up.

(Photo: The crazy hostel. Imagine the owner of the hostel, hm... let me see, where is the greatest place to build a hostel... ahaa, next to the rail!)

(Photo: I really like the style of the tram in Budapest. It is quite ancient but with a lot of character.)

We headed to the Budapest castle. Weather was really nice, I wished I had my sunglasses with me!

(Photo: Our boy band photo.)

(Photo: Inside the famous church.)

(Photo: In the castle region, overlooking the city of Budapest.)

After the whole morning and early afternoon of walking and sight-seeing, we were so extremely tired that we went and chill.

(Photo: chilling...)

(Photo: Barbora and Vladimir"s friend, David, also known as Daiko, he is just about the calmnest person I have ever met! Never panic, never piss, never angry!)

It was again raining as we left Budapest to Bratislava with the car. There was a guy from the car in front of us, throwing up.



After driving for about 2 hrs, we got lost in the dark. But found our way after about 30 mins. Great driving Vladiko!



Finally, at about 11pm at night, we arrived at Barbora"s home, greeting by CD the dog!

Day 138 Exploring Budapest on a bike!

After a long day yesterday of getting lost finding the hostel, exploring the bars and pubs in Budapest, and finding our way back to the hostel, we decided that today is the day which we will explore the beautiful city of Budapest on a bike.

(Photo: Getting ready for the long bike day. The hostel rented bikes to guests for about 8 or 9 Euros per half-day, which I think is a bit expensive for Hungary. Nevertheless, we were just happy that there were bikes for rent in the hostel.)

It was however, a national holiday in Budapest, so not much tourist attraction sites were opened.

(Photo: The Budapest Synagogue, closed.)

(Photo: The Budapest Church, this is not closed, so we went in and took a look at the pretty interior design.)

(Photo: The view from the Chain bridge linking Budapest.)

As you can see from this photo, the sky was getting really gloomy. And about 2 hours afterwards, it started to rain heavily! Luckily we reached the hostel.

(Photo: Yep, and so there we were, consuming alcohol in the hostel reception, which conveniently, is a bar.)

Day 137 First stop: Budapest, Hungary

Today, I begin my last Europe trip here on exchange! We set off to the mysterious city of Budapest, with Barbora, Vladiko and Daiko!

Plane ride was reasonably comfortable, we flew by Finnair, and were offered food and drinks. The plane was not as full as I imagined, there were quite a lot of empty places left.

(Photo: Sunny weather)

(Photo: Vladiko and Daiko picked us up at the airport by a car, and we set off to the city centre and to our hostel to drop off our stuff.)

(Photo: we passed by the chain bridge, it is a famous bridge here in Budapest!)

(Photo: we had some bread, green chillies and some Slovak dry sausages for dinner.)