Pest:
lights, money and funambulists

Day that we spent in Pest (the “new” part of the city),
here is what we saw (and what we didn’t):

1. Vaci utca

It’s a very long promenade that goes through Pest, it is divided in two parts, one old and one new, the first begins in Vörösmarty tér and ends in Elisabeth bridge.
In Vörösmarty tér there is the Hard rock cafè and Gerbaud backery.
Walking on the street you can’t miss the Kurtoskalacs (o kurtos kalaks) a tipical sweet with cinnamon, the photo above shows without doubts that: YES. I liked it!!! 😀 😀
Suggestion: if you find Dobos cake try it (it’s another tipical sweet of the city) and write us something about it 🙂 but if you eat the one from Gerbaud backery, please, don’t complain about the fact that you paid a slice of  cake 11 euros (central square + very ancient backery = if you eat something you’re searching for a shock, isn’t it?).
Suggestion 2: suovenirs are cheapers in the covered market in the end of the street, so it’s better to make shopping there. 🙂

2. Vásárcsarnok 

It’s the big market of Pest, a covered market that you’ll find in the end of Vaci Utca, near the Liberty Bridge.
Souvenirs are cheapers and, even though there’s a lot of chaos, it deserves a waòlk inside 🙂
We eat another sleaze, obviously we don’t know what it was!! 😀

3. Ponte della libertà  Liberty bridge

Near the market there is the Liberty Bridge and as the tradition says, you have to walk across it and express a desire,
we bring the Ciccions with us (so she could express her one!)

4. Cittadella and Liberty statue

We had time to visit tth Citadella only thsnks to the Ciccions (luckily!!)
The view is wonderful and the monument is really majestic and full of life…exactly as the freedom it represents!! 🙂

5. House of terror

We felt really disappointed, if you have only a little time in Budapest we suggest to jump this visit.
There are a lot of videos but only in Hungarian, we had only a lot of papers to read and a beautiful memory: the feeling of touching a piece of Berlin’s wall that is exhibited outside.
Another symbol of the freedom that won against terror.

6.  Holy Stephen and the Sinagogue

Holy Stephen is really beautiful, inside there is an hand of this saint that did not  decompose…
had a little time in here!
In Budapest there’is the biggest Sinagogue of the world (after the one in New York), we don’t like to pay entering in church so we visited only the garden outside.
In that garden, there is a cimitery and the Tree of Life that is built on an ex mass grave, every leaf has the name of a Jewish dead during the Olochaust.
We used the money of the ticket to buy a beer. That’s it. I’ve said it!!! 😀

7. Il Szimplakert

Dulcis in fundoooooo….the wonderful romkocsma!!(photos are orrible because of the light)
In Pest you can’t loose a night in a ruin pub, we chose the Szimplakert!
Ruin pubs are old hangar full of old, broken, used or recycled things in compositions made by young designers…
I hope to find another place like this soon…there’s a wondeful atmosphere, excellent beer and hig- class meat and bread!!
You can soend time sitting on a hairstylist or dentist chair, in a broken car, in a room full of pc screens or on a bench made with skis…
FANTASTIC!!!
Our second day in Budapest ended…and we didn’t want to go!!

Last day in Budapest

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