Budapest
23 de septiembre de 2021, Hungría ⋅ ⛅ 16 °CAs soon as my bus from Bratislava arrived in Budapest, I made my way over to the tram that would take me to the city center. I finally had my comeuppance however from attempting to dodge paying for transportation ever since Warsaw. I was sat next to two punk-looking youths. I saw this big guy with a fanny pack and shades enter the tram and my instincts gave off a bad sign but I didn`t pay attention to it that much. As soon as our tram set off, the guy faced towards the two guys and asked to see their tickets, it seems like they gave of counterfeit tickets and got into trouble, my helpless lookin` face-ass seemed to also caught his attention so when he did ask to look at my ticket, I also didn`t have any to show. Now, I had to pay the fine which was like 20 euros at that time and I didn`t have any Hungarian forints on me too so he took me to exchange some money. I didn`t even try to weasel out of this one, we went to two exchanges but they were closed. The third one was unfortunately open and I didn`t get such a good rate too. Anyways, I did pay for the fine and I was also pretty close to my hostel so I walked towards there and went through the main market place. I got to my hostel, checked-in and dropped of my things and went back out to try and explore the city. All was just done through walking and relying on Maps.me for offline navigation but I eventually made it to the Shoes of Danube and the Hungarian Parliament Building. On the way, I went by several landmarks such as St. Stephen`s Basilica which was partially covered due to some sort of event that was happening that day. I was lucky enough to catch the sunset and it made for excellent photo opportunities and lighting for both the shoes and the parliament building. I hanged out around here for a long time until the sunset fully to which I went to the back streets and had some traditional Hungarian food such as catfish. I was very happy with my dining selection that night. It was quite unfortunate that I opted not to bring my jacket with me as now it was starting to get very chilly. I decided to follow the river on the way back and was able to see the other side of the river bank come alive with bright lights. I was also able to grab some nice photos of Szechenyi bridge, another famous bridge that connects both side of the river in Budapest. I got back home a bit tired but I was nevertheless very satisfied.Leer más