Living a Dream

Time to break out of the mold and go to another city. As mentioned at the tail end of Part 3 , the three of us (me, Norbert, Jenna) went to Budapest for about 30 hours just to see what it was like. In short, it was beautiful. And cold. And we were not really prepared for the cold. We jumped in the car and drove to Budapest, which was rather uneventful unless you count the part where I spent hours thinking that the lying-down deer that I saw were giant rabbits. But upon arrival, things got more interesting quickly. We checked into an apartment that was much bigger than we needed and tried to immediately set out. We stayed in what was apparently a well-known area for food and young people, and we promptly found the permanent street-food place across the street; you walk inside and there are 5 or 6 food-trucks that sure don't seem to ever be going anywhere. It was a nice touch to get us started. We stayed on the edge of the Jewish quarter and walked past the famously enormous ...