Budapest is actually three cities. There is Buda, Óbuda, and Pest. Óbuda means "Old Buda" and is pretty undistiguishable from Buda. However, Pest is on the other side of the Danube river and is much more metropolitan. Buda is the home of the castle district and most of the sprawling monuments, whereas Pest is the shopping center and much busier. I live in Pest, and almost everything is located near my apartment. Thus, I have only ever crossed the river once into Buda. Today, we decided to go exploring in the hills, and it was very fun! To get to Buda you must cross one of 9 bridges. We used the Erzebet bridge because A) it was convenient, B) Erzebet is Hungarian for Elizabeth, and so I feel a sense of ownership to it. We hiked to the top of the hill that overlooks the Danube. It was a long walk! It snowed this morning so everything was slippery, thus it made for an adventure. What I love about this city are the things you stumble across. The random statues are really fun to climb around on. I put a bunch of pictures up of some boys being silly with the statues. It was a chilly day, but very worth it, especially when we got to the castle. We went under a tunnel of some sort and I was amused by a sign that said "Beware of crumbling". We came back across the Great Chain Bridge, and I took a picture from the middle of the Danube. It's really surreal to find myself walking on the bridges I looked up on Google Earth a year ago.
Tonight we're going to the Opera House to see a ballet of Midsummer's Night Dream. We got the $2 tickets, so I'm not expecting too much. However, the Opera is a fantastic building. The gift shop is a ballet dancer's haven.
Last night I went into a shop in which no one spoke a word of English. I managed to ask, "how much is this?" and they understood me!! It was a triumph of the first degree!
Yesterday I went rock climbing at a really cool gym. I'm very sore today, but it was a lot of fun. It was a full-body work out, for sure.
Check out my pictures! Hopefully I'll add more when my friends and I share them!
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