It’s my first time in Hungary. I got here by flying from Istanbul for €45 with Wizz Air, which originates from Hungary. I flew with Wizz Air the most this year so far.

Budapest is on the Danube river.

Parliament

Tourists

The mutlicoloured houses flow down

Colourful

Holy

Ceremony

Recording

Buda Castle

Face to face

Houses have eyes

Always looking

She's on her toes reaching for the forbidden

Christmas spirit

Fun fact: Hungarian belongs to the Finno-Ugric language group (Finno is for Finnish, Ugric is for Hungarian duh). As such, the most similar languages are Finnish and Estonian. In other words we, as all the other Europeans speaking ordinary Indo-European languages, should not even attempt to understand Hungarian.

Indo-European language group: Hungary stands out

Signs

Hungarians normally eat exquisite sandwiches during the day and worship Michael Jackson at night.

Ruin bars are a thing in Hungary.

Ruin bar

Me

Another part of the essential tourist experience in Budapest are thermal baths. I visited the less touristy Lukacs Baths. They are also cheaper: 3200 HUF ~ €8. I loved bathing in the warm water when it was pretty chilly outside.
The water cleansed me from Athens, all the code written in Istanbul, along with headaches, nightmares, ugly thoughts, doubts about my identity and everything that is alien to me and hadn’t faded with time. All of that was a thing of the past. It always had been, but now I see that the past flows away like water. Everything happening is ripples on the Danube.

Water

Budapest reminded me of Russia. They have a wide choice of beer. A peculiar thing about convenience stores: they display 0-24 instead of just 24.

Get drunk

I liked Budapest.

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