Budapest: Part II

[Continuation of Budapest: Part I]

When I arrived back at the hostel (directly before my afternoon nap that was mentioned at the end of the last post), I ran into a few people that looked to be around my age. One of them was the guy who had been working the desk at the hostel earlier that day and with him was a girl from Canada, a girl from Japan & an impressively tall guy from Poland. I soon found out that they are all engineers in the same program and that they are currently working in Budapest. I also discovered that they had just ordered one of the most insanely large pizzas that I had ever seen—apparently the Polish guy had not eaten anything in over 24 hours. We talked for a while, including a pretty heated argument between the Canadian girl and me over the fact that I think “The Big Bang Theory” is one of the most horrible things to happen to television since Michael Jackson did that terrifying interview about boys sleeping in his bed with him at Neverland Ranch. We chatted a little while long and they eventually invited me to join them for a concert that they were all attending later that night.

Budapest: Part I

Since I haven’t posted in a fair amount of time, I’ve decided to split the telling of my jaunts through Budapest into two separate blog posts. This way, reading it won’t be so tedious and I will feel like I’ve accomplished twice as much. Enjoy!

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Lisa and I were scheduled to fly out of the Budapest airport (from whence we originally came in September) for our return trip to the States for the holidays. When our trip began in September, we arrived in Hungary and had to instantly shuttle ourselves off via train to meet up with colleagues in Wolkersdorf, Austria. This time around, we wanted to spend some time seeing the city—we had only heard incredible stories about Budapest from other travelers that we met in hostels and whatnot. Generally, those are the kinds of people you can trust about those kinds of matters.