I arrived in Budapest this morning. My friend Toni, who I met at Mission Wolf in Colorado last winter and who invited me to visit here, picked me up at the airport. He took me into the city and treated me to the best pizza in Budapest. It was admittedly delicious.
Budapest is a quiet, pretty, tame city so far as I can tell at first glance. Today is cold and rainy and last night in Paris I got no sleep...so that makes walking the wide, long streets here a bit tedious, even though they are beautiful.
This afternoon, I met a couchsurfer from Germany and his friend from the Philippines at the big spa I mentioned in the post below. It was enormous. I paid and went in to change, but found the setting and ambiance a bit spooky...it was huge and ornate, but very clinical feeling, with big, long corridors and people dressed all in white, with plastic slippers bustling about. Apparently, it is a spa, health center for the elderly and hospital, with different wings that all seem to merge. It reminded me of the old time asylums for "mad" people. It was creepy. In the women's changing room, the floors were tiled and dirty and there was no option to have slippers or anything on your feet. The whole atmosphere weirded me out and I decided not to partake in the baths. It was a huge escapade to get a refund, which took half an hour of insisting. I felt pretty "mad" by the time I got out of there!
Then I came to Moscow Square, where I am now. I hate to admit this, but I am in McDonald's! My feet are aching from walking all day with my bags and I was craving a place to sit and write with free internet and a vanilla milkshake. So, here is one of those rare times where I sell out to Micky D's.
In a little while I will meet with my couchsurfing host here in Hungary. I hope I like her!
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