Waving at Croatia
28 grudnia 2019, Słowenia ⋅ ☀️ 3 °C
River is the border, hiiii, bye! And, important discovery, the seats slide out.
Hungry Kids of Hungary
28 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
Arrived, died at cute tiny metro stations, died at cute tiny loft, ate stir-fry (oh the cravings we've had!), confirmed Budapest is grand.
The only place with no goulash
29 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ ☀️ 1 °C
We got off to a little bit of a bumpy start with Budapest, one of those days where nothing goes right. I was excited for goulash, managed to go to the one place in the city probably that had run out, Czytaj więcej
Conquering the Danube
29 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
River cruise, 10 euro, with a welcome drink - safe to say we were actively managing our expectations on this one, but it was great! Started at 4pm so we got to see the transition from day to dusk to Czytaj więcej
Sunrise Szechenyi
30 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ ☀️ -3 °C
A strategically early start this morning, arriving at Szechenyi baths at 7am in a bid to outrun the bulk of other tourists - it worked! The baths are the biggest in the city and very much plural - Czytaj więcej
Central Market Hall
30 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
We got to the market hall with about half an hour to go before closing but it was still pretty busy! The enormous building has one main floor where all the grocery type shopping goes on - so many Czytaj więcej
Szimpla Kert
30 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 -2 °C
I chose the original ruin bar and the coolest place ever as the meeting place for us and Lou, Seb, Seb's sister and their friend, which kicked off a brilliant night of bars and kebabs.
Good circuit on a Monday
30 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 -2 °C
More snaps of the pre-NYE night out on the circuit.
Vest gang
30 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 -2 °C
Louise was pretty amused by our matching vests, despite my protests that they are slightly different shades of grey. Haters gon hate.
Menza
31 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
A nice lunch! Rich barely able to contain himself.
Afternoon walk
31 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C
Hike up to the Citadella
31 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C
Happy New Year!
31 grudnia 2019, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 1 °C
Fake it til you pee
1 stycznia 2020, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 1 °C
We stood in the street for midnight on NYE, to be specific, outside a concert hall (pictured in daylight in the last shot).
The Hungarian approach to celebrating this seems to be either go and see a Czytaj więcej
Szechenyi take 2
1 stycznia 2020, Węgry ⋅ ☀️ 4 °C
Lou and I stayed up all night with the aim to roll straight through to the baths at 6am, but just as we were about to leave (after 3 hours of dancing in the kitchen to stay awake, and everyone else Czytaj więcej
Vajdahunyad Castle
1 stycznia 2020, Węgry ⋅ ☀️ 4 °C
Buda Chinese
1 stycznia 2020, Węgry ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
On our last night in Budapest we took a tram over the river to Buda, and had a really delicious meal at a Chinese restaurant - a solid open-on-1-January option. We pigged out on soup, dumplings, Kung Czytaj więcej
Secret City Trails Bratislava
3 stycznia 2020, Słowacja ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
Our second Secret City Trails experience and this time we placed 29th with a time of just over two hours, for which we are blaming the -2 temperature. It was also trickier than the other one and we Czytaj więcej
FACH that's good
3 stycznia 2020, Słowacja ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
Quick post to memorialise the delicious 'lemonade' in the far right of this picture - sea buckthorn, earl grey, and rosemary flavour, and DELICIOUS. Duck soup and bread and butter great too, at Fach Czytaj więcej
Fife, Andy and Andy
3 stycznia 2020, Słowacja ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
At Baudelaire bar, which, quietly, I chose, and was well timed defrosting, Rich discovered an excellent drink so we've nicked the recipe and intend to recreate it, with raspberry instead of mango as Czytaj więcej
#1 Slovak Pub
3 stycznia 2020, Słowacja ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
Dinner of assorted meats, and sheep's cheese pierogi at 1. Slovak Pub, the biggest in Bratislava and allegedly #23 best in the world. It has 9 rooms and can seat over 600 people! Food was very nice, Czytaj więcej
Possonium
3 stycznia 2020, Słowacja ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
Our apartment for the next two nights which we were very pleased with until the bongo jam sesh upstairs started and now we are less pleased. Lord let it stop soon.
Post-Communist Tour
4 stycznia 2020, Słowacja ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Got in a man's old, rusty van with strangers.
Was a great tour. Got the rundown of Slovakian history from the occupation in WWII, liberation by the USSR, and the subsequent communist Czechoslovakia Czytaj więcej
Tour cont.
4 stycznia 2020, Słowacja ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
We joined two other couples for the tour, one from the Gold Coast and one from the Netherlands. Our guide was born in Bratislava in 1990, and says this means when his parents were attending the Czytaj więcej
Bratislavský Meštiansky Pivovar
4 stycznia 2020, Słowacja ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Quality Slovak pub with a mix of cuisine from Slovakia, Czechia, Austria, and Hungary.
Moravian Sparrow for me (it's actually roast pork and potato dumplings) and a farmer's plate for Lex.
Podróżnik
All the better to stretch out on - 😋 F