10 Hours in Budapest.

I really wanted to make a pun out of my Hungary trip title, but I resisted. Your welcome.

The tiny plane we took from Cluj, Romania to Budapest. Two hours in this beauty.

We had planned to go to Ukraine, but the airline deities did not want us to do that, fiscally speaking. We decided to go from Cluj to Warsaw and deal with an overnight layover in Budapest. Finding a 5Euro a night hostel made the decision of going into the city very easy.

Confused and freezing in search of our hostel

Being the day after Christmas, everything was a little dead, but that did not stop our immediate aggressive touring. Every historical building and museum was close so we settled on seeing the exterior then going to dinner.

St. Gellért Monument

Amazing freshly baked pastries that Fuddy and I literally followed
our noses to find. Quick, stop looking at them or you'll get fat 

Happiness.

...more happiness.

Hungarian street food. No joke.

Buda Castle 

Parliament! One of the biggest (and definitely most
beautiful) parliament building in Europe

St. Stephen's Basilica

The Great Synagogue, largest synagogue in Europe

The Great Synagogue, largest synagogue in Europe 

Rollin' deep with 10,000 Florints... except 1 florint= less than $0.01

Hahahaha oh Hungarian florints, you are so silly. 

Freezing on the bridge in between Buda and Pest 

Fuddy freezing in between Buda and Pest 

Fuddy and I decided this and the next
picture were worth the trip to Budapest.

...and our case rests. 

We had an amazing dinner of goulash, steak, truffle frites, and ravioli with wild mushrooms at Centrál Kávézó. We definitely did not leave hungary (ok, sorry, I said I wouldn´t do it in the title). The best part was we had saved exactly the amount of money we needed to pay for the dinner and the taxi the next day. We thought this until we received the check and (SURPRISE!) there was a 15% extra tip charge. We were very confused and angry and felt like we got scammed AGAIN (I will never forget that horrible Turkish experience), made a slight fool of ourselves, scrambling for cash, and left angry that we were in no way warned about the extra-charge. Given that my sister and I split a small water and one soup (who splits soup?), I was especially angry that the waitress did not take notice that we were very cheap/poor. Despite the experience, the food was still delicious.

Our lovely dinners. Look at how adorable the french fry presentation is. 

We got back to the hostel at around midnight, took a 3-hour nap, woke up to catch a cab to the airport, and jetted off to Warsaw, Poland to continue our tour of the most freezing European countries.