Buda and pest

After a guy dropped us on the ring of Budapest on the middle of the highway we didn’t need to way for long till another car pulled up and picked us up. He wasn’t really able to speak English and as we can’t speak Hungarian we manage to find out that he can drop us at the metro station close by. It was really generous of him. As we were really tired the first we did was to get a cup of good coffee and some wifi to figure out our next steps. 

              Coffee addicts?

We wrote well in advanced to some couchsurfer but none of them was able to host us unfortunately. Therefore we looked for the cheapest hostel which was available and went there. We didn’t read the description of the hostel and due to that it surprised us when the hostel turned out to be a party hostel with 4 bars beneath and party music till 6 am in the morning. Well …it was too late and we were too tired to look for another one. That just meant we needed to party as well and so we did.

Beautiful streets of Budapest

Street art across the street of our hostel

After a quick bite for dinner we met a friend of Hannah – Michaela and her fiancé. Michaela and Hannah knew each other from university in Ludwigsburg and didn’t see each other for almost two years. On accident they figured out through facebook a couple of days before that they both would be in Budapest to the same. So we managed to meet up with them in bar over a couple of drinks. It was nice to see them (again), to talk and discuss, share experience and to get some tips for what to do in Budapest. Afterwards we decided to go to the Donau waterfront to look at the beautiful lighting of the castle, the bridges and the citadel. Unfortunately it was already kind of late and therefore all the lights were turned off but it was still pretty to look at and we decided to go to an open-air bar close by with music to dance a little and to enjoy each others company. At four o’clock we were then finally back in our hostel. Quite tired but happy and ready to sleep despite loud music from beneath.

Buda side

Pest side

The next morning Julie decided to join a free walking tour as it was a first time in Budapest and they walked around, heard stories and learned about Hungarian history almost for 5 hours. One of the things she learned was that there just to be two cities divided by the river Donau which were called Buda and Pest (pronounced with sch) and as both cities were increasing in size they melted together and became Budapest.

The little princess

While Julie was exploring Budapest Hannah was in a Cafe did some administrative stuff, worked a little for the blog and enjoyed the sun. Afterwards we went to a new hostel as we wanted to sleep a little bit more then next night than four or five hours. It was a nice and quite hostel. Before we went to the House of Horror – a history museum about the history of Budapest and Hungarian from the first world war till today- we had Langos: a typical traditional Hungarian food. There we spontaneously met three guys from Germany who went to Budapest for the wedding of one of their friends and we started to talk about our trip, the wedding their attended, jobs and lifes back home, etc.. It was nice and we had a glimpse on how live back home is.

Elizabeth square

To recover a little bit from all the heavy and depressing pictures, movies and information we got in the House of Horror we decided to walk to the hero park. It is the biggest park of Budapest. We were laying in the grass, sleeping a little bit and watch a group of people practicing Capoeira which reminded us of our friends Shrey and Diana who also practice it.

So green the hero park

The evening we spend walking around Budapest at night and this time the lighting of the bridge, the citadel and so on was there and it was sooooo beautiful!

Beautiful view from the Magareten bridge

The parliament by night

After a good night of sleep this time we went to an apparently good hitch hiking spot on the highway. Another hitchhiker was already there and after an hour another girl came but nobody stop or even seemed to be interested in taking us. After another half an hour we decided to walk to a close by smaller road which also led to Vienna. And after 15 min. somebody stopped and took us for 15 km … after that a young German couple stopped and took us all the way till Györ. There at the petrol station we waited for an hour, talked to lots of people but they all just tried to ignore us. Then we saw a car we an Austrian license plate and Hannah asked him:

Do you drive to Austria?
Yes?
Where exactly?
Ah okay, cool! Could you imagine to take me and my friend along?

And with a little hesitation he said yes but with the a half kidding, half serious request not to kill him. We assured him that all our hitchhikers from India till here are still alive and enjoyed our company. So he took us and we were finally on the way to Vienna again! Only 122 kilometers left!

Good bye Hungary!