BUDAPEST - PART 2

This time last week I was enjoying my jollies away in Budapest with a few of my boys. It was such a lovely place, here's some of the shit I saw out there.

The next day we headed for the Szechenyi Medicinal baths. The largest of their kind in Europe, the baths are heated by two thermal springs.

Everything there was so ornate and nice. It was such a beautiful well kept place, indoor and outdoor pools and a sauna and steam room.

Quick refuel at some sandwich spot when we jumped out

I had a steak and cheese. This sandwich shop was nuts, it was like Subway if Subway had any bollocks and didn't do some weird, almost impressive thing where they make the meat as dry as possible.

Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe a bridal fair? Who knows, either way, nice poster.

I'm guessing 4D scans aren't just a standard thing in Hungary, rather a service offered by an external company. Weird to think people would want to pay for that crap little picture of an unformed human doing it's best impression of sweet potato mash.

We came across this massive lorry that had fucked it and broke a cover on the floor. The ease with which the driver rolled the wheel out of the ditch was remarkable, as if this shit happens all the time. Regular shit out there.

We went to this medieval themed restaurant. The food was really nice, but the entertainment was notable. Weird, odd little blokes came out every 20 minutes or so and did some weird tricks. One bloke was balancing a glass on a knife, and flipping it in the air and catching it on the knife. Mental stuff.

A nice poster for Bánktió festival

Too cold for them

This place was cool. Near the ruin bars it was a little sort of garden with benches and whatever and loaads of food trucks selling all sorts of stuff. The street food in Buda was insane, every corner you turned there was something really tasty on sale.

All the architecture around Budapest was so nice. We stood and looked at buildings a lot

We discovered a rancid drink called Unicum. A Hungarian spirit that was kinda similar to Jaeger, but so much more disgusting. Obviously Dan and Jamie don't like their lives so they both bought bottles to bring back to England. It was fucking gross.

That's the rest of what I saw in Budapest! a wonderful place with loads of amazing architecture, history, scenery food and culture. It was soooo cheap, we crammed loads in, didn't stop eating and boozing all weekend and I spent little over £200. I'd strongly recommend going for a nice cheap short stay. I can't wait to go back.

BUDAPEST - PART 1

This time last week I was enjoying my jollies away in Budapest with a few of my boys. It was such a lovely place, here's some of the shit I saw out there.

     

Whenever you go to a European country you can bank on seeing some wild fashion on the underground system. Hungary was no different.

Have you ever been drinking a can of pop and just thought fuck this I wish you were half like a panda pop or something rather than a can? Me neither.

I've never seen these before. I can confirm they were very impressive. Mad flavours.

Jamie modelling a selection of Hungarian beers and lagers.

We walked through these arcades and it was occupied by a market, but it was more like a car boot sale. Loads of tat, nothing of much value. As we walked through I kept thinking that I want half of the shit there. There was some cool shit like little daggers and weird old war memorabilia.

We checked out the ruin bars. Built into some ruins were loads of little odd bars, cluttered with tat, but for it having loads of personality. Boozing there was super cheap too. For a round of 4 pints it was like £5/6.

:-//////// just gonna grab a copy of Fanny magazine, wbu?

We went to watch Vasas FC beat Budapest Honvéd 1-0. It was cold as fuck, the ground was about empty but it was actually a really fun game. The ref let loads go, so it was as if you got to see loads more football as it was always 'play on'. The best moment of the game was when the home team was defending it's 1-0 lead and conceded a penalty. All the fans were trying so hard to put the kick taker off, jeering and making noise. We were successful, it remained 1-0. Of the 12 top flight teams, 5 of them are from Budapest.

Randomly there was a Hungarian bloke there in a Leicester shirt. We saw him inside and got a photo and asked him why Leicester. He mentioned that Vasas had a similar history to Leicester in the league with going down the leagues then working their way back up. Said he bought the shirt this year. Odd to think City are a kiiind of cool team for glory supporters now.

More sick underground fashion. Having a tinny at 10:20am. He was the most militant bloke we saw all weekend.

We went to this cool Go Karting circuit in a converted car park below an abandoned shopping centre. We spotted the podium before we went onto the circuit and decided whoever placed 4th could take the photo of the other three. Alright yeah yeah yeah stop going on about it whatever

Another thing I learned this weekend is that people cannot take photos. It's actually fucking mental, it's not a hard thing to do. It's like drinking water or sitting down. As a human you should come with a basic level of ability to achieve the task in hand. Instead we had shite like this all weekend. Stood in front of a BUDAPEST sign, whyyyyyy would this mindless twat think we want this photo? DAPE? Oh great, what a great, memorable photo of my time in DAPE. Not only that but she also managed to get her finger in the photo too. Divvy.

The food in Budapest was nuts all week. On the second day we chanced upon this Hungarian food festival. 

I think these are like patties mate from shredded meat

It all looked so good

The things the food are sat on are 'potato pancakes'. How mad is that? Why have we never heard those together before? I don;'t know, but fuck me it was delicious. I had a hungarian sausage, some goulash and some hungarian pasta. It was so delicious.

We spent most of the second day just exploring.

Whilst we went to see a memorial for Hungarian jews on the bank of the river Danube Tom thought it would be a great time to have an impromptu photoshoot with some little superstar. I think the shots are going to come out great. The shoes are an installation by film director Can Togay and Sculptor Gyula Pauer. The shoes face the water because the militiamen shot the jews here during the 2nd world war and let the bodies fall into the Danube and get carried downstream. Pretty grim stuff.  

It really was a beautiful place with so much ornate, well kept, breathtaking architecture. We crossed the river and headed up into the hills to go see the castle and various other historical buildings.

There was another hill we scaled after we'd got to the buildings pictured above. This hill had a nice trail that lead upto a monument that overlooked the whole city and the river running through it. It was so, so high. We took the fast lane, scaling these near vertical hills and cutting out the paths.

It was so beautiful up there. The clearest day, we could see for miles and miles.

Myself with one of the colder skengman. Showerman outfit

Ice cream at the top of the hill with the little ice cream gremlin. She was lovely, but a little gremlin non the less.

I'll post part 2 tomorrow, thanks for reading!