How i got stuck in Budapest

I love Europe, it is so unstable today, you never know what to expect XD

So, on my way home i had 18 hours stopin Budapest, and i asked some couchsurfers to host me and to show around fastly. My hosts were very nicecouple. Guy even met me at the airport, because i was sogood in getting lost. He said that as i have only one night in Budapest i had togo out - not a problem, sowe went to the karaoke. But the problem was that i cought a cold in Vienna, so i had no voice, and instead of beer and singing i was drinking hot tea and whispering XD Anyway it was fun

Next day we woke up early and the first think i heard was the news that the wonderful Malevairlines that i had to take ran bankrupt. Yay! Finally Europe understood that it needed me and didnt want to let me go,but unfortunately my visa was about to expire, so i was looking for the new cheap tickets, and found it for the next day, but when i was buying it there was some mistake on their web site, so themoney on my bank account were blocked but i didn't have ticket. And here my wonderful host family helped me a lot, they called to the office, to Poland and solved the problem. But because of this i had almost two more days in Budapest, so we went for the sightseeing.

Budapest is really beautiful, architecture is great, it is very clean, very friendly, the only thing that was confusing me there were russian metro trains (legacy of Soviet Union) XD We walked all around Pest part of the city, went to some open market where we took some hot wine and etc.


Budapest is devided in two parts Buda and Pest, once they were different cities, but not today. Also all the city is full of different strange sculptures, like in Reykjavik. And what i liked about it, there are not that much tourists, so you can see the real city. Also public transport works really good, but they check your tickets always, except day time in trams XD

At evening my hosts took me to their friend's birthday party after what we went to the very fancy club Moulin Rouge (Pariiiis is following me) with very cool mis of 80-s music. In that club i was shoked by men there - hey dont try to grab your ass, actually if they want to dance with you they do it in a very nice, a bit old fashioned way, and after italy i was really shoked by it XD

Next day we went to the Buda part of the city, that is famous for its main church, that really was great. But this day was snowing for the first tme during the winter (how lucky i am) and it wasn't that nice outside, so we took some very good hot chocolateand went home where my host Zsuzsi cooked some traditional Hungarian food - i loved my hosts there)

And inseveral hours i was on the plane to Warsaw where chocolate liquor and chocolate helped me tomake night shorter, andnext morning i was in Moscow)

Actually there was another story with my tickets, i think because of the mostake on th website system doubled my surname and onmy ticket my name looked like "EkaterinaGoncharova Goncharova", and there were possibility that my ticket wasn't valid, but at the endeverything was ok and i am home now XD

Russian Prague

As you remember originaly this trip was my friend's idea, who wante dme to join them, but because o fthe tickets we could meet only in Prague and only for one day, but it wasnt bad. Actually for me it was good, because there were 6 of them and for me traveling with six russian people was too much XD

They met me at the bus station and brought to the place where they were staying: huge luxury appartment in some fancy hotel in the city center - niiiiice. It was so good there and so cold outside that we could go outside only for the food, and we did it,i took them to the same place where my host took me, and they fell in love with czech food XD After we made some very fast sightseeing and went to the supermarket to buy some food, because they wanted me to cook for them (i love it, you know) XD. So in the evening i cooked some carbonara, other girl made mojito and we watched my favourite traveking movie - Eurotrip

So the next day we woke up quite late, but as we were staying in a hotel, we could have free breakfast, but only three of us were awake, so we went downstairs in our pijamas, took as mush food as it was possible and came back - so russian style XD Then we made standard sightseeing, ate some traditional food, took a lot of photoes, had fun all together, but it was way too cold outside, so i hardly believethey enjoyed Prague) Oh, and also my friends were obsessed with character of one old czech cartoon - mole,sowe went to the toy store where they bought at least ten moles (and one was for me XD)

Then i packed and they came to the bus staton with me, then they went to eat again and i went to my next stop on my way home - Budapest!

Prosperous Vienna

So, from Prague i went to Vienna. Why Vienna? Well, it was very nice city and it was easy to reach from Prague (and very cheap - 24 euro, student bus). But also one girl from AIESEC project in Catania lived there and was so so glad to meet her.

So, my first day in Vienna my host tookme to the very famous and beautiful palace and park, that was 10 minutes away from his place. Hofburg Palace reminded me of any other palace i'd visited actually: the same beautifulpark, same palace with a lot of gold inside, same fountains - as you see i wasn't impressed)) Only place there i liked was a hill from where youcould have very very nice view, but that's it)

But at evening I met with my friend Anita, we went to the museum district where we had some drinks, then we went to the very underground bad that was in the former sinagogue,where we met some french guys and i tried very tipical for Vienna Kasekrainer sausages, than we went to another place, that was one of the oldest diskoplaces in Vienna, than it was too late already (or should i say too early?) so we went home

Stephansdom

Next day i went for the sightseeing with korea guy who was also hosted by my host. We went to the very city center, saw the main church Stephansdom, Parlament, Opera house and something else. He was looking for some very old street so he asked one woman on the street about it, but instead of it she told us that that day was the only day when we could go to the Mozart museum for free - of course we went there. Actually, ifyou are not lucky with free entrence, dont go there, nothing especial) Than we went to some randome restaurant to have some tipical food, that was way to big for me to finish it XD


Next day Anita took me for the ice-skating near Rathaus, and as i hadn't beenskaing for two yearsi was exhousted after it, but i had enough power to eat some tipical sweets and drink punch XD We ended this day in the mall,so girly)


This day was my last one, so in the morning Anita took me to the open market, then we went to the top of the nest to the city muntain from where we were supposed to have an amazing view, but it wasso cold, that we didnt care abut view. After we met at evening to have some drinks, andi really wanted to go home early, to sleep good and to be in time for my bus, but on my way home i met somespanish guys, joined them in the bar and we ended up watching Shrek in spanish somewhere in the city. Also they put my phonein chineese and that night i had no idea what to do with that XD

view from that mountain

And next morning, fortunately, i already was on my way back to Prague

Actuallu i want to say couple of words about Vienna. This city reminded meof German, but better Germany, it is not that strict, and people here look friendly, language is more pleasent XD Also this place is very well organized, but after Prague it was expensive fo me (after Prague everything is expensive)). To visit all Vienna 3 days are enough, at least it was for me.