{"id":13633,"date":"2025-05-25T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=13633"},"modified":"2025-05-25T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:00:40","slug":"budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2025\/05\/25\/budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Arrived by bus Thursday late afternoon, it was long and fairly uncomfortable and to make things so much better with some women yelling at her phone (on speaker no less) most of the 4.5 hour ride.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you’re 6’5″ tall riding the bus truly sucks..<\/p>\n

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Took a Tram most of the way to the apartment then hopped on a bus right there that took us to within ~100 feet of our apartment doorway.\u00a0\u00a0 Little did I know then that there was a bus stop right in front of our door to the building.\u00a0 We figured that out the next day.<\/p>\n

We went out for dinner that first night and found Kismezo right around the corner.\u00a0 I had a great Goulash that was more like soup than what I was used to.\u00a0 But it was great.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Friday morning we had tickets for a guided tour of the Hungarian Parliament building.\u00a0 Wow was that a nice building.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a great tour.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Then we headed over to the Funicular to see the city from higher up and check out the castle that is there.\u00a0\u00a0 Long line for the Funicular, and its a short ride up.\u00a0 And it was about ~$30 for the 2 of us.\u00a0 Not exactly a bargain for a few minute ride.\u00a0 Especially considering folks over 60 ride all public transit for Free in Budapest!\u00a0 The funicular isn’t public transit apparently.<\/p>\n

After the funicular we took a tram over to a Goulash restaurant that had a lot of good reviews.\u00a0 It wasn’t nearly as good as the prior evenings Goulash.\u00a0\u00a0 There was way more potato than there was meat in it.<\/p>\n

That evening we headed over to the Ruin Bars for a drink then walked back toward the apartment looking for a place to eat.\u00a0 Quite an interesting joint those ruin bars.\u00a0\u00a0 I thought it was a bunch of bars in the area, but instead ita a bunch of bars inside a bombed out building.\u00a0\u00a0 We had a beer and a Aperol\u00a0 Spritz.\u00a0 We ended up at a Greek joint on the walk home,\u00a0 I had a Giro Plate and Kathy got a Falafal Plate.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After we finished we walked the rest of the way back to the apartment which was just a couple more blocks.<\/p>\n

We ended up back at Kismezo for lunch on Saturday.\u00a0 Kathy had a burger and I had the goulash again.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Saturday evening we booked an after sunset one hour cruise on the Danube to view the city lights after dark.\u00a0\u00a0 It did not disappoint!\u00a0\u00a0 The skyline at night is gorgeous and the Parliament building is the gemstone on the river.<\/p>\n

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We found that Taxi’s here in Budapest are pretty cheap.\u00a0\u00a0 Only cost us $8 from the waterfront to our apartment.\u00a0 And it was the same rate for any size vehicle including a 6 passenger van.\u00a0 The app to use here is called Bolt.\u00a0 Uber is quite a bit more expensive to use here than bolt we stuck with that while in Budapest.\u00a0 They probably just mark up the regular rate that bolt charges for their cut.<\/p>\n

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Arrived by bus Thursday late afternoon, it was long and fairly uncomfortable and to make things so much better with some women yelling at her phone (on speaker no less) most of the 4.5 hour ride.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you’re 6’5″ tall riding the bus truly sucks..   Took a Tram most of the way to the … <\/p>\n

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