18 June: London to Budapest

First stop of around Europe in 40 days, is Budapest, Hungary. Budapest (pronounced as buda-pescht) is a small little city. It is quite easy to orientate around the city, just remember the three district, the Buda (hilly one), the Pest (flater one), the Castle district (on the Buda side with their Royal Palace in it) and Buda and Pest are separated by the River Danube.

Leaving out of the bag for 6 weeks with boyfriend

We arrived in Budapest Airport around 4 in the afternoon. From the airport there are several ways to reach the city centre, Nyugati. You either take a bus and change on to metro or take a train, straight into the Nyugati Railway station. Since we were lugging a lot of luggage, we decided to take the train, which only costs us 370 huf per person. The train is an interesting one. Remember the train in the Harry Potter movies, whereby the seats were separated into cabins, we got on a train that has that orientation. Cabins and a narrow walkway, it is pretty interesting for me, like from a Wild, Wild West Movie.

The Wild Wild West train in Budapest. Yeap that's me!

So from Nyugati Railway station, we walked to our hostel, 2night Hostel, which is a cosy and comfortable hostel. The owner Matt, is very very friendly and helpful. For 11.34 euros per night, we got a 4-bed dorm, with linen and towel, and breakfast is included, not forgetting the oh-so-important wifi!! It is a really great hostel.

2night Hostel

Dinner was at this Hungarian food restaurant recommended by one of the workers in the hostel. We ended up meeting her there while she was having her dinner with her family. The name of the restaurant is Frici Papa, and we ended up having beef goulash (pronounced as goo-yash) and chicken breast paprikash. I really like the Hungarian food a lot, although they are all meat rather than vege. But the food they served are really very tasty and somewhat, a little bit similar to Asian food. Well, yes, sort of like a comfort food.

First dinner of Eurotrip

Hungarian Beef Goulash

Hungarian Chicken Paparikash

First night was left to explore the town. It is enjoyable to get lost in a new city, see new sights, hear new sounds! And it’s time to rest for tomorrow’s long day!