Budapest was a nice city, we stayed in a rather unique hostel run by a guy from Chicago. It was kinda dirty, but the guy that ran it made up for it, by being super friendly and helpful. He told you what you should be paying for things and the best places to go. The hostel was really relaxed, and we thought it was like staying in your messy friends apartment. Budapest itself was nice, lots of great views to be had and things to see. One of the more interesting experiences we had was a visit to the local baths. We were not really sure what to expect, but once you got used to sitting in a hot pool with a bunch of other people its alright. The water was around 38 degrees centigrade so it was very relaxing, the water is fed from a natural hot spring and is supposed to have medicinal qualities.
The Széchenyi Spa
Budapest also had a really great market, where we tried some authentic goulash. It had a whole lot of cabbage though, but wasn´t to bad. After Budapest we headed to Prague in the Czech Republic. We had a bit of an adventure on our way there, as we didn´t know we had to transfer at a station and got stuck in Zhob on the Budapest border for 3 hours waiting for the next train headed for Prague to come. It was a bit of a panic, but I manged to communicate with the local station operator where we wanted to go and she let me know we weren´t stuck and when we could catch the next train. Prague was nice, but the air was really heavy with smog so it made walking around a hot and sweaty thing to do. While in Prague we visited the castle which had a massive great hall, that was apparently used for jousting matches. The castle also had a display of Medieval torture instruments which was disturbing but interesting at the same time. St.Vitus Cathedral in the castle had some of the nicest glass I have seen yet made up entirely of small slivers of glass.
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