Our first week has come and gone...

A week has passed... and so has the weekend. And what did we do you might ask? Will i tell you? ooh indeed i will.

An uneventful week of mundane working hours and watching downloaded episodes of Rome and Medical Investigation led up to a Friday night out having dinner with one of Malin’s old workmates from her time as an intern at IKEA last year in Budapest. I had the perfect meal selected for my hungry stomach but just as i was about to order Malin ordered the same thing.. D’OH! and i can’t have the same thing.. what’s the point in that? So by pure principle i ordered the lasagne instead. Which resembled... well, your guess is as good as mine. It sure didn’t look like lasagne, i can tell you that much. Thank God i was able to taste a few bits of Malin’s pizza. Mmmm... pizza good... (Napster bad) A bottle of wine later (which is almost cheaper than Coke) we hit the streets and came across one of the more.. bizarre arts i’ve seen in a long time.

Saturday morning we got up at 9 am, had breakfast and planned what sights to see. Malin, the ever present tour guide, suggested Hero’s Square and the Millennium Monument. This saturday must have been really special since me met a lot of people at the square in steel-tip boots, black BDU’s, black T-shirts and black jackets. If it hadn’t been for all the shaved heads i might have thought that there was a Metal festival happening and i would have been inclined to join them. Anyhow... since most of the square was sectioned of for these people (don’t know if it was to keep them in our us out) we went down to the Millennium Subway, which Malin thinks looks like a HUGE public lavatory. I found it quite charming. But considering that one of the stops is named BAJZA (bajza read in swedish sounds like “taking a dump”) it still feels somehow that Malin does have a point.

Well... after a quick ride in the underground metro we got of and headed to one of the exclusive (and expensive) cafés in Budapest: “Gerbeaud”. We sat down for an espresso, tea and chocolate cake. Yum! Yum! Having satisfied our sweet-tooth we headed back to the apartment prepared some stuffed peppers, watched a few episodes of Rome and went to bed.

Sunday started of much like the previous morning. With a lot of walking. We headed out to Margaret Island which is a small island in the middle of Donau. The island itself is not very big but still manages to hold a number of different things. A rubber track for joggers that goes all the way around it, 2 sports arenas, several swimming pools, Spa Hotel, numerous restaurants, a small zoo (with animals that just don’t seem to be that ok) ruins, a chapel and a small Japanese Garden. When we finally made it to the gardens we stopped for some warm mulled white wine and a pretzel. Some of the pretzel we fed to the pigeons and other birds that suddenly arrived. We even saw a Robin. ( Batman, however, was nowhere to be seen).

On the way back it started snowing real heavy so we headed straight home. But don’t believe that the sight seeing stopped there. No! We went past probably one of the coolest restaurants in Budapest. Darkness! Have to go there some day... if we live to tell about it, we will.

Considering we had been out walking for 2.5 hours we were both really tired and went to bed for a quick nap. An hour or so later i was awaken by Malin who hade prepared a pizza for dinner. I’m amazed she actually made it out of bed ‘cuz i was beat. Anyway... ate the pizza and got dressed again since we had decided to go and see a movie at the Cinema. Tonight’s choice? “Walk the line” the Johnny Cash movie. To those who haven’t seen it.. Go now! Drop what ever you are doing and go see it... We where a bit nervous though since Hungarians tend to dub most of their movies... but it only had Hungarian subtitles thankfully. 2,5 hours later we left the cinema, but the night didn’t end there.... we actually bumped into a Swedish couple here on holiday. Small world...
But that is it for now... stay tuned..