Last Day: Return to London

Today was surprisingly nice, well not a surprise, any time you get to wander around London is a good day. First thing Becca and Lisa met up with their cousin Chris. The plan was Chris was gonna take Becca around site seeing and we would go off and spend our time in less touristy setting. Wait, most important, breakfast, Chris took us to a cute place in SOHO called The Breakfast Club. We got a delicious English breakfast, sooo good, but I'm kickin myself for forgetting to take a pic. After we ate and chatted for a bit it was time to part ways, unfortunately we really didn't have any ideas of what we were going to do, so Chris dropped us off at a coffee house and we devised a plan for the day. We tried to select from several walking tours and the site of the lesser traveled parts of London. We kinda ended up doing a semi touristy walk of Portobello Rd. I found it enjoyable returning after 4 years and Lisa had a good time. Our goals were post cards, candy, and find an English bull dog. We did it all.

The day went really fast in comparison to the last few and before we knew it we had to go meet up with Lisa's friend from camp, Lucy. We had a nice visit with her and had a lovely dinner, I had the fish and chips and the really good cider we found in Prague.

Then just as quickly as our day went so did our evening. Can't believe we will be home tomorrow. Sad to see the trip end but so happy we were able to do this!!! Thanks everyone for following us on our 2012 Eurotrip!


Lovely rain free day

Coffee Time

New Scarf!

Feel real lucky that I got to use this award winning clean bathroom.

Felted balls made into a purse, just couldn't help takin a pic specially since I did felting semi recently.

A Bulldog Named Henry

Chris aka. Great Guide & Host, Becca, & Lisa

Lucy & Lisa

Becca last night at the airport, it was serious business to figure out what flavors those gummy bears were!

Goodbye Budapest.

We had quite an array of activities here in Budapest and today was apart of it. We went in a river tour of the Danube.

Breakfast wise we decided to pick something up at the Central Market. Very hardy meals for me and Lisa, sausage for her and a chicken pasta wrap thing for me.

Then we hopped over to the Gellert baths to try and get a reservation for two pedicures and a foot massage. Well I will say it here, they weren't bad but they weren't what we were expecting, it's kind of a trend, Europe just does things differently than US. Oh we also popped over to the cave Citadel across the street from Gellert.

Then it was off to our river tour which was very relaxing, informative, and overall a great experience.

Buda Castle

Parlament Building Again

Gellert Hill: we climbed to the top where that statue is :)

Now we have just been sitting at Cafe Alibi again, ate our midday lunch and just people watching until we need to leave for our flight. We won't be getting into London until late tonight so I will be posting now and then back again tomorrow.

Coming up on the end of our trip.

Hey all, this has been a great trip, not over yet, but what I was hoping for from all of you who are checking in on the blog, if you could, shoot us one comment. It's real easy, just say hi at the bottom of any post, I'm pretty sure you don't even need an account just comment. Thanks everyone or following! Update: Just realized e setting reverted to default on comments so NOW anyone can comment :) Thanks again!

Choose your own hell path, they all get you to where you're going.

That title sounds worse than it was, today was just a lot of waking up hill. One hill in particular was very steep and strenuous, though it felt good afterwards it was quite a trudge.

This morning we went to a nice breakfast place called Cafe Alibi. Very good food and especially great iced coffee for Erin. This place actually had a crowd at it unlike yesterday when nobody was around and nothing was open. It was also apparently baby/kid day, they were surrounding us, probably looking for a weak link to attack...

Today's started at Heroes Square, it mostly represents the freedom of the country and recognizes those who sacrificed to achieve it. Beside its political aspects it also has a religious undertone too (what doesn't...).

We continued past he monument into the park, just inside the park is Vajdahunyad Castle. I liked Lisa's take on it, "This castle looks the nicest to live in out of all that we have seen." Then classic to our travels we sat and relaxed in the park next to a lake/pond. One of the really nice aspects of this trip is we haven't really had to rush to be anywhere. Just take our time and enjoy, almost like a real vacation.

Met for photo op with Voldemort

Lisa wants to visit this fancy chocolate place so we stopped in, very nice looking deserts, but we all were feeling much more in the gelato mood. Took a quick break for savoring and then we were off again. Crossing the Chain Bridge, one of the nicer (fancier) bridges that connects Buda and Pest. After we crossed the bridge (which was right near the chocolate place) we walked up the hill that was across he street and that took us to Buda Castle.

Now the next and last place was Gellert Hill, this local is known for he panoramic view of the entire city of Budapest as well as its own monuments. Though after today I believe the steep paths should be listed as the most incredible part of the area...incredibly horrific to be exact. Like the title says these paths, though there were many, they all were arduous and eventually would get you to the top. So of course once we got to the top (it's the best!) we had to stay there for at least an hour, we took all hat damn energy to haul ourselves to the top, better freakin enjoy it! We sat at he base of the monuments steps and drank our waters and fanta (I drank coke, but the point is, we have decided that in Europe we have this unusual draw to drink fanta when we normally have no desire to, our hypothesis is that the bottles are very optically appealing and just make you wanna buy them).

Lots of walking/trudging today but it was all worth it for the great sites and good times!

Dinner: Deer for Erin and Boar for Lisa ( Becca had deer soup but was boring and had a salad after, Nat can appreciate that)

Yes Lisa bought this, because it's gum

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Our balcony entrance to Goat Hostel

Just cuz.