The first week in Budapest

So it has been over a week since coming back to Budapest. What happened during this week, how was it? Let's try to summarize it.

The weather has been great, I missed all the sunshine and even the heat. After all, summer is summer. It is supposed to be hot. So I enjoy every minute of it.

But there are, of course, other things to life than sunshine. One of them is food. On the second day of our arrival, we went to our favorite Chinese restaurant in Telepy utca (9th district). There was a new waiter and he was the only staff we saw in the entire restaurant. It took a while to get him over to our table, even though it was lunchtime. Sensing a potential problem, I asked how long it would take to get our food. Oh, 10 minutes, 15 tops. Cool, let's order then. Well, the first dish came after 40 minutes and it was something we did not order. When I complained, he rushed over with the menu to show me that this was exactly what I ordered. Needless to say, he was wrong, as there was also a picture of the dish. Then he came back and said that it was the cook's fault. In any case, we got served after about 50 minutes. Luckily, the food was good as usual. But in the meantime, I got a parking ticket just outside the restaurant. Apparently, parking on this street is not free anymore. Too bad to find out like this. To be honest, with this new development (even if that day's experience would have been perfect) the restaurant immediately lost some of its appeal to us. You would not have to pay at night but with the baby we do not go out at night anymore.

But we've also done some fun things. Like driving down to Bogács, which is a village with a relatively famous bath house. It was a lot of fun and we stayed there for a couple of days. We also went to another "strand", as they say in Hungarian, in the town of Százhalombatta. This is a small ugly town about 25 km away from Budapest but its baths are very nice. Then, we also went down to Velence but decided not to swim in the lake as it looked muddy and quite dirty. So instead, we drove around the area, stopping at small villages. This was nice, too.

The fireworks were also fun, even if we could not go to see them because our daughter went to sleep just about that time. But we live near the Castle Hill so we could see some of it from our window. And because it was so close, sometimes it felt like we were shelled by artillery fire. It was an experience.

Well, that was the first week.