Showing posts with label Budapest May 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budapest May 2015. Show all posts
Friday 5 June 2015
Thursday 4 June 2015
Wednesday 3 June 2015
The guy with the rose tatoo
It was unavoidable. By the end of every day, I just had to pop into the convenience store for a bite or a drink to take back to my room with me.
And every evening there he was . The bouncy jet black haired semi goth,whose lower right arm was lined with tatoos .
His startlingly penetrative eyes coupled with a decidedly bored air about him made me notice him from day one as he did me .
Yeah 2 unusual looking people in Budapest noticing each other. Nothing to it.
Tuesday 2 June 2015
Inferno - snapshots from the perimeters of the movie set
Are you a movie buff ? Then you must already know that Tom Hanks has been in Budapest to shoot the Dan Brown thriller Inferno.
No , I did not even get a glimpse of him . Pic is just a screenshot snuck from someone else's instagram account.
That's his son Chet Hanx a rapper . Do not confuse him with Che Det the Malaysian blogger.
St.Stephen's Basillica is in the background.
Monday 1 June 2015
Steeple chasing escalators on the Budapest metro
For the first time visitor , hopping onto the escalators that take you to the bowels of earth is like taking an adrenaline thumping ride on some scream machine.
Holy sheeet....I haven't been to the one in D.C. but this brutal one at Szell Karman Ter is enough to make me feel faint .
See how small the people are at the end of the line !
Don't know whether this is higher than the one at Rakoczi Ter because that one was so jaw dropping , my stomach churned till I didn't even dare hold my cam up !
The Budapest 7 day travelcard
Currently, the 7 day travel card costs 4950 forints.
And that entitles you to unlimited travel on buses , streetcars, trams, the underground, trolleys , cogwheel even local trains within Budapest ! If I am not mistaken you may also hop onto certain public boats by the Danube too but since I didn't try that out, can't confirm it.
Should you take the monthly pass, that would require a passport sized photo ID which you can easily snap at a mobile photo booth for around 1000 forints.
Here's a complete list of prices. The Hungarians thought of everything. There are even dog and bicycle passes.
The city is huge . I could have rushed it from the get go but I chose not to because no way, I hate that.... that's not the way I wanna travel. As a result, I did not get to ride the cogwheel . No matter, I was having too much fun exploring the city itself and this way, the memories do stick !
However, the week long pass did accord me rides on one of the world's oldest electrified subway line in the world ....
see the leather holders.
Sunday 31 May 2015
2 and a half hours to Budapest
Thursday 28 May 2015
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