We arrived in budapest and found our hotel fairly quickly. Yes that's right, hotel! The posh lifestyle. We booked ourselves into a four star hotel in the hopes of no snoring or sharing, and having a great nights sleep. So for three fantastic nights, we slept comfortable, and had a sauna and jacuzzi at our disposal. It was fantastic! Since we got to our hotel around 5ish after a 6 hour train journey, we decided to unpack, relax and have a look at where to go for dinner. One of our friends from butlins had recommended one called Trofea Grill. For less then €18 its all you can eat & drink. So we 'dressed up'... I put on my one packed skirt and leopard peplum shirt, some black flats, and we headed out for our date. Budapest is easy enough to navigate and we found it within 10 minutes. It has quite a romantic vibe, but a little on the noisy side when it was busy. I ordered some rose wine, and was given a bottle, and Matt stuck to the beers. Loads of different salads, soups, fois grois, hot and cold starters, cheese, bread, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, and they had plenty of different meat which they cooked to order. This place was fantastic! We loved it so much, we came back on Sunday night as well, Matts treat. Thanks bubs!
Saturday we decided to do a hop on hop off bus tour, after about 2 or 3 hours, we did the full circuit including both Buda and pest. It was all audio guide which for me can be a bit boring at times as it doesn't include an quirky people or funny stories. Just the facts, and lots of them! When it wasn't giving you the history, it would play classical music. It was a little bit boring, but Budapest itself is a really nice place.
We wandered around and went to the Coffee&Wine House, where we ordered ourselves two ice caramel lattes! Refreshing and super sweet! After we headed down the road to Arriba. With our bus tickets we got a free margarita, so it would have been rude not to go. I ordered a salad with loads of avocado and delicious dressing, washed down with my free mixed margarita. It was an awesome dinner.
We walked back to the hotel and treated ourselves to a spa night. I loved the sauna, but Matt enjoyed the Jacuzzi more. For the most of the night it was only us there, our private spa! We skyped Matts mom for a bit, finished off our books and off to bed. Matts been reading the first game of thrones, and I read a book by Mitch Albom called The Time keeper. Hes one of my favourite authors, and I finished the book in a day! I also read 'Are You there God? Its Me Chelsea' which is one of Chelsea Handlers autobiographies. Its fantastic, witty and at times innapropriate.
On Sunday I really wanted to find an easter market, and was told by a tourist information point and our hotel that Budapest doesn't do anything like that. A little disappointed, we decided to head to the baths. Budapest has over 120 natural spring, thermal healing baths. To me, it just like a massive spa! We went to one of the top 3, Szcheny. It was near the river and an old, little castle in the park. The bath as two big hottubs, and by big, I mean over 100 people, with healing waters. As well as a normal swimming pool in the middle. It has saunas, and plenty of different shape and styled pools serving different purposes. However, due to it being Sunday, it was packed!! When we left the bath, we realized that inside the mini castle was an easter fair!! So much for Budapest not doing them! It was fairly small but had plenty of stands with different food and drinks. There was music, some farm yard animals and even a stand selling weaponry and leather whips... something for everyone! I tried the strawberry wine, loved it.
We headed back to the hotel so we could skype my family. Had a good catch up, then headed off to Trofea again. Monday we had a late check out and headed back to the fair to try some different food and book our train tickets. We had a hungarian styled gyro and It was awesome! Full of flavor, huge and less than €5! We washed it down with some cider, which was a bit more like a sweet scrumpy.
Our train tickets were booked for €10 to take us to brasov, for a whopping 18 hours. We grabbed our bags, a subway and headed to the station. Our room had six beds, technically. But there is no way room for more than four people in these little boxes. It holds 3 beds per wall and its pretty much a day long sauna. No one else in our room speaks english and Its a constant battle to keep the window open for fresh air. After 14 hours of the window being closed, I could no longer handle it, so I opened the air and breathed in the glorious fresh romanian air! I pretty much sat next to the window for the next few hours until we got to Brasov! Next blog update will be about Draculas castle!
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