Valentines Day!!

Another week, another weekend but i guess the biggest question on everyone’s minds is ”VALENTINES DAY”!! What did we do? What did we eat? In what romantic manner did we celebrate this day created for consumption of wine and chocolate? The answer? Nothing... well at least not very romantic anyway. Ok... well i did make Malin breakfast in bed... and i did buy her a rose on my way back from work but other than that nothing in particular. But remember Monika & Christian? The couple that picked us up at the air port? Well they had invited us for dinner so that is where we headed in to dark night of Budapest.

The dinner began with the compulsory shot of either Palinca or Unicum. Both has the ability of making your day very regretful if too much is consumed. Then we hade some wine before we had even more wine and some what sounds like “lápshó” a Hungarian sausage stew, prepared by the excellent chef Christian. After dinner we talked a bit more over some coffee and tea. And that was our Valentines Day. Not much more to speak of.

The rest of the week has been spent indoors working, watching episodes of Rome and generally complaining about the piss poor weather we’ve been having during the week. That however changed during the weekend.

On Friday i went to visit Malin at her company together with Aniko. The one that managed to get all the internships here in Hungary. She’s also the mother of Monika. We started planning for a weekend in Sopron where there are a lot of wineries... and stuff. For lunch we went to one of the many indoor marketplaces. It’s got two levels and tones of stands that sell everything from saffron to Absinthe. As well as any part of any farm creature you can come to think of.

On Saturday malin started her Hungarian speaking class. Too bad the timing is a bit bad. 10am -1pm during the peak shopping hours. Anyway... while malin was away i did some laundry, the dishes and even vacuumed the kitchen and hall... no point in shopping alone. Anyway... so malin came home... beaten and tired from the brutish language class and i was a bit knackered as well from all the house hold duties i had preformed that we ended up watching episodes of MI. Which was a shame since the weather outside was really nice. Our dinner that night consisted of pizza and watching “Wedding Crashers”.

Woke up Sunday morning and the sun was shining brightly in the sky and not a cloud to be seen! Perfect weather for a stroll down to the city centre.
Which reminds me. Malin and I have an agreement that on every Sunday visit a coffee shop for some coffee / tea and a pastry. So this was our main goal for the day... as it will be on every Sunday. Not forgetting to see the sights on the way of course. On the way in to the city we walked down the alleys of Budapest and looking at the old buildings... we turned a corner and suddenly the entire city just opened up and there was the biggest most amazing building i’ve seen in a long time. The “St. Istvan Cathedral”. Now this thing is huge!!! Usually i have no problem fitting things with in the frames of my camera, quite the opposite. I have trouble filling it. But this cathedral is awesome in stature. Big bummer was that there was a sermon going on inside so i didn’t want to take any pictures inside... But have no worries. I’ll get some later on.

On our quest to find a good looking pastry we came upon several small antique shops filled with everything from odd screws to air pilot helmets and gas masks. So if you ever need a Russian astronaut helmet this is the place to get it.

We finally found (well... Malin knew where it was) a small tea-house where the tea menu is longer than most bar menus are. So we settled in in this cosy place, ordered our tea as well as some chocolate cake. Something strange though... there must have been some kind of drug in that tea cuz i felt really sleepy afterwards.

Since the time was pushing 3:30pm we decided to head back to our apartment. But not before we found a store that sold chips... so... here we are, back at home eating chips and writing the blogg.

I wonder what next week will have in stall for us?