Budapest

Parliament Building
Originally uploaded by Fiwit

I spent last weekend in Budapest which was great as I needed some more adventure. I'm having a lovely time in Sarajevo but am starting to feel fidgetty and wanting to do more.

I learnt a few things while I was there:

• Eating dinner in a fancy restaurant seemed like a good idea, but actually I found it very lonely.

• On a similar note, thermal baths are much more fun if there is more than one of you

• Chocolate is always your friend and can make any situation feel better (so long as you ignore what it may be doing to your hips, etc.)

• Walking everywhere is good and means that you don't feel guilty regarding the chocolate intake. However you do end up with very sore feet. 

• Walking everywhere also solves the problem of having to work out public transport which I have a definite mistrust of!

• So long as you have something to read at all times you will be fine.

• Shopping makes me happy! (Okay so this is nothing new, but there were some rather lovely shops in Budapest.)

• My brain is still very much in South America mode - I was shocked to see so many tourists with expensive cameras hanging round their necks. It took me till Sunday to accept that it was perfectly safe to do this!

I basically decided/discovered that whilst I am very happy to be on my own during the day, it's not so much fun at night time. So in future I will look for livelier hostels and make sure I always have a book!