Budapest

Kat and I left Vienna two afternoons ago, after visiting the Schloss in the morning and saying goodbye to the to guys who were hosting us.  Then, we got on the train to Budapest and went walking a bit after settling down in our hotel.  Kat found a couchsurfing dinner and so we went and spoke with some people from France, the US, Budapest, and a few other places.  The prices here are so much cheaper than in Vienna that I feel like a high roller!  Yesterday, we were heading towards the castle but ended up getting tea at a beautiful place and walking around the Budapest Labrynth where people hid out during the bombings of World War II.  It was a cool place, and we kept singing songs and quoting lines from the movie Labrynth. Then, we came back to the hotel and got some things in order before grabbing dinner and heading over to the Jewish district of Pest and grabbing a beer at the coolest bar I've ever been to.  It was like an open air market/cafeteria mixture with at least six alcoholic bars throughout, a hookah bar, and more places throughout that we were too pinched for time to explore.  The transit system here is great, but it stops running at 11, and we are on the Buda side of the river, so we can't stay out very late unless we want to pay for a cab. Today, we stopped in St. Stephen's Basilica and walked around some cool places.  It's been raining all day, so we kind of feel drained and might go to the sauna at our hotel after dinner.