20th June: Goodbye Hungary, long train to Poland

Holding the Eurail pass sometimes can give us a headache as it is not applicable to travel to certain countries (even if you just need to pass through) and you have to still pay a certain amount for reservations on some trains. Our next stop supposed to be Poland. But to go to Poland we need to pass through Slovakia, which the Eurail does not entitle us to travel to. For the 3 days in Budapest, we were always going to and from Kelati train station, trying to find a way (which does not cost much) to Poland. In the end, we had to take a route, passing by Vienna, Czech Republik and the to Poland. All the countries and cities that we will need to visit later on. Furthermore, we didn't realized that the train station actually accept euros and their exchange rate was way better than the ones given by money changer. So we incur some losses by changing back and forth of euros. Yeah bad luck!

Anyway sad stories apart, today is the last day we have to explore the beautiful Budapest. So we woke a bit later this morning and head to the Great Market Hall, which claims to have authentic Hungarian food and loads of souvenirs to buy.

Outside Great Market Hall

Well, I really want to get my hands on those little things sold there, but this is just the 3rd day into our trip. Our aim is no extra luggage and try to save whenever and where ever we could. So no souvenir from Budapest.

Paprikash Spice Pack

Penguin meat anyone?

In the market

For lunch, we had stuffed chicken leg and Langos (pronounced as Lan-gosh). The traditional Langos is topped with vegetables, feta cheese and olive. But we opted for the cheese topping instead. Stuffed chicken is really too heavy for me. It is stuffed with some minced-don't-know-what meat.

Typical Langos

Cheese

Stuffed Chicken Leg

But that's typical hungarian food, very carnivorous! Furthermore, we had not digest our breakfast, so the lunch was really too heavy for us. In Great Market Hall, you can just the whole of your lunch time walking from stall to stall to decide what is best to feed your appetite. They really have a lot to offer.

Arrays of meat

To all my Singaporean/Malaysian friends, Langos actually tasted like ham jin peng that you can find in those you tiao stall, just that, they are larger and thinner in Hungary and they have toppings on it!

After lunch, I followed boyfriend around the city, taking last few photos of the bridges, the people. We even hiked up to Castle Hill again to camwhore . Haha. Well there weren't only us there, but loads of people, posing while capturing the beautiful city through their lenses.

Budapest

At about 4 p.m., we went back to the hostel, grabbed our luggage and head to Kelati train station for our 20 plus hours train to Poland. May we don't bump into any luggage robbery!

Goodbye Budapest