Friday:
Talking about spontanous. Easter is coming up and I go to lunch with Anja at the mensa. First of all we had to find one which is open, cause of Easter holidays. The mensa was never that empty before! Anja told me she made her final decision about going to Budapest. And she was going.
Later that day she wrote me on facebook, that Daniel and Carol (the other two interns left here) decided also to go. That was around 6 pm. So here I am with two choices:
a) going to Budapest and spending my last savings from this month on that
b) or staying in Belgrad with basically everybody gone as the Serbians went home to their families for the weekend.
So I was thinking and then finally packing!
We took the night train around 9 pm. We got a train compartment with two ERASMUS students from Budapest and we tried to sleep. I ended up at the floor at one point as this was the most comfortable place - Seriously! It was pretty hard to sleep cause there was always somebody coming in: Serbian controller, Serbian passport control at the boarder, Hungarian passport control at the boarder and then Hungarian controller. They are very serious people and kind of scary - Passports!!!! One of them really liked the Brasilian passports.
Saturday:
We finally reached Budapest around 5 am. We wanted to get a map at the tourist info, but it was closed. But I was actually able to remember all the ways around the city :-). We were looking for a place to eat breakfast and the first place which came to our mind at this time: McDonald. Problem: we were at several and they all would open at 7 am. And we had a new ides: a Mc Map. For all the Mc Donalds in towns with opening hours ;-b.
So we spend some time walking around the tourist streets in the city and at the market hall and then we went to search for a hostel. Which was not that successful. Four hostels later it seemd like all the hostel were booked or reserves at the city and a hostel employee was very helpful then and booked a cheap hotel for us incl. breakfast.
The hotel was at the Buda site up the hill close to the Gallerthill. So after checking in we climbed up the Gallerthill. And enjoyed the beautiful sight. Afterwards I was chassing Daniel and Carol around the city so the could see all the important places :-D: Gallert bath, fashion street, market hall (eat a studel), St. Istvan Cathedral, Andrasy utca, Heroes Square, City park ...
We wanted to meet Anna, who picked up her boyfriend at the trainstation, what proved to be very complicated as our cell phones were all not working that well. Later we found out we were probably at the same meeting point at the same time, but we didn't see eachother.
At the city park we were laying down in the grass, enjoying the sun and resting our feet.
Afterwards we took the tram to Deak ter to go to a supermarket just in case nothing would be open on Sunday, to buy some water and for me some things to bring to Belgrad, which are soooooo good in Budapest.
The shower in the hotel felt very good that night and we fell in our beds.
Talking about spontanous. Easter is coming up and I go to lunch with Anja at the mensa. First of all we had to find one which is open, cause of Easter holidays. The mensa was never that empty before! Anja told me she made her final decision about going to Budapest. And she was going.
Later that day she wrote me on facebook, that Daniel and Carol (the other two interns left here) decided also to go. That was around 6 pm. So here I am with two choices:
a) going to Budapest and spending my last savings from this month on that
b) or staying in Belgrad with basically everybody gone as the Serbians went home to their families for the weekend.
So I was thinking and then finally packing!
We took the night train around 9 pm. We got a train compartment with two ERASMUS students from Budapest and we tried to sleep. I ended up at the floor at one point as this was the most comfortable place - Seriously! It was pretty hard to sleep cause there was always somebody coming in: Serbian controller, Serbian passport control at the boarder, Hungarian passport control at the boarder and then Hungarian controller. They are very serious people and kind of scary - Passports!!!! One of them really liked the Brasilian passports.
Saturday:
We finally reached Budapest around 5 am. We wanted to get a map at the tourist info, but it was closed. But I was actually able to remember all the ways around the city :-). We were looking for a place to eat breakfast and the first place which came to our mind at this time: McDonald. Problem: we were at several and they all would open at 7 am. And we had a new ides: a Mc Map. For all the Mc Donalds in towns with opening hours ;-b.
So we spend some time walking around the tourist streets in the city and at the market hall and then we went to search for a hostel. Which was not that successful. Four hostels later it seemd like all the hostel were booked or reserves at the city and a hostel employee was very helpful then and booked a cheap hotel for us incl. breakfast.
The hotel was at the Buda site up the hill close to the Gallerthill. So after checking in we climbed up the Gallerthill. And enjoyed the beautiful sight. Afterwards I was chassing Daniel and Carol around the city so the could see all the important places :-D: Gallert bath, fashion street, market hall (eat a studel), St. Istvan Cathedral, Andrasy utca, Heroes Square, City park ...
We wanted to meet Anna, who picked up her boyfriend at the trainstation, what proved to be very complicated as our cell phones were all not working that well. Later we found out we were probably at the same meeting point at the same time, but we didn't see eachother.
At the city park we were laying down in the grass, enjoying the sun and resting our feet.
Afterwards we took the tram to Deak ter to go to a supermarket just in case nothing would be open on Sunday, to buy some water and for me some things to bring to Belgrad, which are soooooo good in Budapest.
The shower in the hotel felt very good that night and we fell in our beds.
Sunday:
Actually Saturday was the day of the sun (really hot and me getting red again) and Sunday the day of the drizzle.
The breakfast was great and then we had to check out. Which ment for my pulling my suitcase behind me for the rest of the day. **** - I will never again go away for a weekend with a suitcase. It was not heavy, but that it survived that day made the Brasilians think about buying a German suitcase. German Quality ;-b.
Still we went up the castle hill with lots of other people that had the same idea. Still it was nice. Afterwards walking through the city again, checking out lots of souvenir shops and stopping at one of my favourite restaurants with this great garlic soup :-).
And then walking all the way to the train station to check when our trian will go. It didn't go earlier then we guessed - it went a 11.30 pm. Arena plaza (the big shopping center next to the trainstation) was kind of open. So we went to the food court there and I went to watch a movies, as I didn't want to wait 4 hours without doing anything. I watched "Limitless" with Bradley Cooper - was pretty good.
6 h later and lots of controls again, we arrived back in Belgrad.
GREAT weekend! And I have to say I really missed Budapest and I think it it a beautiful city!
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