New Year in Budapest - Travel Diary
29 December 2007 - January 2, 2008
29 December 2007 - January 2, 2008
And the rooms are not bad. It is also well connected with the city center by bus and metro. The first thing you hear when you go to Budapest for the last year is cold! The icy cold air has accompanied us throughout our stay in the city, and in some cases it was not nice ... Like when, arrived at after a long walk to Buda (old town), we climbed the stairs which are located at the end of the bridge of lions (towards Buda).
The hill was completely covered in snow and still snowing! The grass, trees, statues, were full of snow, and had a charm of the whole, which we promptly captured.
A silence and peace in a biting cold all along the route.
Then, having reached the top, we visited a war museum housed in a real bunker used during World War II. Charming place, and even more the view of the city from the hill! A little farther on, the castle of Buda.
A true prodigy architecture. Wonderful because we went there the next day in the evening, and the lights of the castle on the snow gave a slightly fairytale effect.
Then, once you get off from Buda, a ride in the center of Pest (the new city), with stands that have already started to crowd the Vaci Utca (the main street) and the square at the end of the street, selling all sorts of object that made noise and light.
And while the cold was still gripped the entire city, we in the mouth with a scarf and cap on his head, we have won the city to the sound of footsteps, wandering the streets and getting a bit 'here and a little' there . Time is just flying in those days, perhaps due to a cherry liqueur (buonissimo! "Cherry") that caused the void of space and time ...
Indeed, without realizing it we got to the night of nights in 2007. Many different parties in the streets and squares, the supply just can not miss! But we had heard of a particular party next to the train station. So, armed with trombazze and alcohol, you go to the party, which is nothing but a well organized rave (with a stage, lights, etc..) On one side of the main station in Budapest.
The problem is that if you get hungry, you can not go anywhere because everything is closed, including the Mc's! Fortunately, a kebabbaro was open (the only window display throughout the city after midnight), the el'assalto Hungarian hungry crew was not made to wait, and we with them. Tired, drunk, delirious, but with a full belly, we were back. The next day you just wake up, and then for dinner, we opted for a Hungarian menu in a restaurant that I already knew from a trip made in Budapest earlier.
E 'in the vicinity of the theater, and named after the Hungarian owner. Really a nice place food very good and above (We highly recommend the chicken with peaches, mouth-watering!) And economic. In fact, almost everything is accessible in Budapest on prices.
absolutely do not recommend the restaurant "the gate of Taormina on Vaci utca, at the very beginning. Tried, and beyond to wait half an hour sitting at the table, hoping in vain that the dishes that the waiter was holding were our own, once it's up to us, the culinary efforts of Italian-Hungarian were very far from what we expected (and we only ordered 2 pizzas ...).
also do not recommend the mulled wine in the square, which you pull him back. It tastes obscene. What advice is also a nice lounge-bar, in the first side of the street opposite to the Vaci Utca, if you search for a refined atmosphere, with bar area and disc area, and a chocolate cake to fly away!
Budapest is a city that absolutely must be visited at least once in their life, whatever the period. The beauty of the city (Pest and Buda), the many attractions of the city from the view of Buda, are all things that once seen, remain in a long time, as the most beautiful dreams.
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