I am almost ashamed today because I was horribly lazy!!
I decided to go to a museum this morning and it opens at 10 AM so instead of being proactive, get up early, do other things and THEN go to my museum, I decided that lying in bed doing nothing until 9 was an acceptable thing to do. Well, the world travelers need some rest too!
After the museum it was already time to have lunch! I was quite smart about that and I picked a restaurant near the festival that I found yesterday, so I was able to enjoy the music while I ate. Unfortunately the music was not so good but oh well, it's better than no music at all!
After that I spent the next 30 minutes hesitating between using my hop on hop off thing to go for a one-hour cruise on the Danube or go to the 3:30 free guided walk about communism. Communism won.
Since I had a little bit of time before the walk, I paid to enter the St-Stephen church. It is the very big one that I took pictures of on the first day I got here, you know the one that almost brought tears to my eyes... Here is a picture of one tiny area of the church:
That's all I have because the area where we can walk was ridiculously small and annoyingly filled with tourists! I tried to see better but crazy enthusiastic tourists were pushing me around and I decided my life was more precious than a picture of the inside of St-Stephen. I'm exagerating a little bit of course but still, I really did not have the patience to deal with those crazy people.
It turns out that taking the communism walk was a great decision, for two reasons. First of all, it was very interesting because communism ended in Hungary in the early 1990s which means that our guide had spent her youth in a communist country. She was able to give many examples and stories from her own life. It's fascinating to me to see people who have been brought up in hugely different childhood than mine but who look so much like anybody else in Canada. And it's very interesting to learn about a different political system than the capitalism that I'm used to.
Here is the only communist statue in Budapest:
The second reason why the walk was a great idea, is that I saw a girl that I had seen at the first free walk I took two days ago. During the first walk, that girl spoke to me a little bit but I was very impressed because she was easily speaking with a whole bunch of people and pretty much making friends instantaneously with them. Since we had seen each other before, we talked during the walk and we ended up having dinner together. So now I have a friend from Atlanta (who will soon move to Denver). She's a marathon runner, I really have to start getting more in shape to keep up with all the healthy people around me!
While we were enjoying our dinner, two crazy drunk Hungarians came to sit at our table. They did not speak much English but enough to pretty much force us to try their desserts haha. If I had been alone I think they would have scared me a little bit but since there was two of us and it was broad daylight, it was ok. And their dessert tasted good. Thankfully they did not stay for too too long.
After dinner my new friend (Emily) wanted to try Hungarian wine and a specific Hungarian dessert that her book recommended, so we sat at another place where she ordered her dessert:
She shared a portion with me and I must admit that it dit taste very good!
And that's all I did for my last day in Budapest! Here are a few more pictures that I took today, nothing extraordinary.
Since I didn't end up taking the cruise ship on the Danube, I guess that means I will have to come back here one day!
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