Budapest Day 1

Today we are off on our travels again … We are flying to Hungary, to Budapest to be precise! A city, and a country too, that we have never been to! We fly with EasyJet from Basel to Budapest, with two pieces of hand luggage. We arrive a little earlier than planned and just catch the airport shuttle bus, which drops us off in the middle of the Hungarian capital. We spend the first two nights on the Pest side of Budapest. Our hotel is right in the centre of this very lively side of the city. We check in at our boutique hotel and change into shorts, because it is 35 degrees Celsius and the sun is blazing down. We still have the whole afternoon in Budapest and decide to simply wander around the city and do some shopping. But first we need some sustenance, so we get a Thai bowl whose ingredients were flambéed over an open fire. Then we buy a few little things and some clothes. Everything here is somewhat to considerably cheaper than in Switzerland. A moment of shock after shopping: Annina suddenly realises that she has left her sunglasses in a changing room in one of the shops. We already suspect it is a lost cause, since we are in a big city with very busy shops. But the sunglasses are actually still exactly where Annina left them. Lucky us! We have dinner at an upmarket Indian restaurant. The dishes are not only extremely delicious, they also look it. Everything is carefully prepared and beautifully presented. After dinner, at half past eleven at night, we walk to the lively square with St. Stephen’s Basilica and enjoy the great evening atmosphere with the illuminated church. There we also meet an American woman who studies art and used to be an opera singer. We loosely arrange to meet for coffee the next day. Tired, we head back to the hotel, where we watch a series before going to sleep.