Budapest

Today, I finally had a bit of a sleep in. I got up around 10. I went downstairs for my free buffet breakfast. The food was really good and I pigged out. I had two massive plates of food. Once I was done, I started walking. I didn't know what I was going to do other than walk around until I saw something cool. It didn't take too long until I did. I ended up crossing the chain bridge and walking over to the castle district in budapest. The chain bridge is a popular bridge in Budapest. It has two statues of lions on either side, and at night, it glows orange like the rest of budapest. The castle district had so much to see. It sits on a hill above most of budapest despite the shitty weather and rain the views were amazing. I walked around the palace where all the previous Hungarian kings lived. Outside of the palace was Matthias church. It was built in 1255. I really liked the architecture on the outside, but I didn't go in because every Catholic church is pretty much the same thing. Matthias church was located right in front of the fisherman bastion. It was used as a lookout tower over Budapest from behind the castle walls. I was able to see most of it except for the 7 turrets. The turrets are just lookout points, so I don't think I was missing much taking pictures from right below them for free. There are 7 turrets for the 7 tribes who founded the Hungarian state. The fishermans bastion was built for the 1000 year anniversary of the Hungarian state. Further down the river and back on the other side is the parliament building. You can see it from the top of fishermans bastion, and it looked way too cool to skip it. Unfortunately It was pouring rain all morning, though, so I was soaked. I stopped to warm up for a little bit in a bar, had a quick beer, and stood under the hand dryer in the bathroom for a minute. I sucked it up and went back in the cold for another hour walk to the parliament building. When I got there, it was just a cool up close as from a distance. I really like the architectural style on all of the previous buildings I've mentioned, but this one was my favorite. It's probably the coolest parliament building I've seen on my trip. It reminded me of the Gothic style in prauge. Now that it was done raining, I decided to go to a grocery store for lunch and get some dry clothes. The grocery stores are so cheap that it makes me feel like I'm stealing. After some of the more expensive places on this trip, I'll definitely take it lol. When I got to the hostel, I signed up for the pub crawl and asked the guy who was going from our hostel, and he pointed out a couple of ausies so I went up and introduced myself and asked if I could join them for the night. They were really nice and told me they were gonna have drinks at the hostel before we left and to meet them there. I went and made my lupper. After chilling for a little while, I went downstairs to meet Agnus and Indie. The three of us instantly hit it off. The pub crawl took us to a few bars. The coolest one was a ruin bar where we played some connect 4 and just hung out. We ended at a club, which we shut down. We stayed there until they kicked us out. We walked back to the hostel, where we made plans to hang out tomorrow. They're traveling for almost a full year, and in November, they don't have any plans, so they're gonna come up and stay with me to take a trip to the mountains! I'm really happy I met them. Today is the second time on my trip I've been over 30000 stepsLeer más