(note: this is the journey of August, not May, found below)
Advice for young people travelers: "When there is war, two things must think first of all: first the shoes, in the second something to eat, and not vice versa, how it feels the vulgar: he who has the shoes can go around and find food, while the reverse is not true. "Shoes are very important. I use urban walking shoes like these: # http://www.decathlon.it/IT/mucia-29424677/
Tips for young travelers: entering air will often hear the flight attendants ask you to sit over the line four. Ask myths are also closed ranks one and two? There will be, and in a row you will enjoy unlimited space for legs .
the dreaded continental climate Augsburg for now does not show his teeth in Bratislava there are 27 degrees and it stands up well. The Slovak girls, beautiful back in May, with the heat gun unsheathe sexual end of the world: the incredible asses. said as Celine, but these are things to be discovered in person.
I'm young and naive, but every time I am in a country where drinking a cold beer in the elegant central streets of the city center of the capital costs one euro and thirty, I am always very amazed.
Shit, my hostel is full of Italian males in heat that casino fans to get noticed by foreign visitors. With success, it seems, however, that sucks.
is cooked the pasta? " "Tasting". The Italian foreign shows his true colors: it is identical to the stereotype.
Palinka a drink on the roof terrace of a building in Blaha Lujza Ter while downstairs the breakbeat and goes crazy with all the good he wants to Berlin, think that between the two cities, from the perspective of a visitor, there is no comparison.
Both in Slovakia and Hungary to drink beer at one euro and a broken mug, but public toilets cost the impressive (for the local standard) amount of forty cents. The desire to drink beer you can hold, not to deport her.
Tips for young travelers: Budapest is a city very cheap but very efficient national transport system is very expensive. One euro and ten each way, then the daily costs six Euros. You (s) fortune to be students show your ISIC card and get the monthly students costs about fourteen euro and lasts a month. It is worthwhile even if you stay for a few days.
line a Budapest subway was built in 1896 and is the second oldest in Europe. Unlike the London stations are been preserved in their original form, are very beautiful and UNESCO.
goes with the urban railway to Szentendre, a town of ethnic Serbs, 20 km from Budapest, and a center of artistic production at international level.
is in Szentendre. Finally, after years of longing, sets foot on land (linguistically) Serbian.
Szentendre is a very small tourist town, full of souvenir shops. Type Erice, to understand each other. I do not think that is especially the 45-minute train ride from Budapest, if not for the visit (for a fee, about a one euro and ten, the other two and twenty euro) of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
begins to suffer the continental climate. But by tomorrow afternoon will be dedicated to Spa budapestine. For today I'm pleased with the opening night of the Palatinus baths in the middle of Margitsziget. If you go to Budapest, I was there from 22 to 3.
teaches you an artist you never knew: Margit Kovacs.
The small town of Szentendre is visited in two hours but it contains a dozen museums artists who live or have lived there. I've seen one, you see the others.
View our showcase of an estate agent and finds that around here at a cost of 30 million guilders you buy the house. Not an apartment, a house, the whole building.
Magic moments: get off the train Obuda, one of three cities (and oldest) that make up Budapest and a biplane ORANGE me flying at low altitude.
After a long immersion in the large pool of water at 38 degrees of spas Palatinus, are too relaxed to take part in the dances gremitissima Silent Disco, always on Margitsziget, and I just watch. So many nice people and a lot of bad music.
is impressive in front of the Veil of Veronica by Oskar Kokoschka.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest is striking not only works but also for the beauty of the building and the sheer elegance of the design. A museum for the Gods. It costs a blunder by local standards: 5 € for the permanent, 10 to see one of two temporary, 13 for everything.
In a section of Italian art at the highest level (among others there are works by Raphael and Leonardo), I begin to feel the first symptoms of Stendhal's syndrome in the face of an extraordinary lady of Crivelli. Things get worse when it happens before the eyes of a portrait by Bronzino.
In this room there are paintings by El Greek than I have seen in my life. The mystery of why an author of the sixteenth century there appears to me so perfectly contemporary easy solution has historically prevailed Caravaggio and the lightness and the abstraction of El Greek had to wait many centuries to become pop.
What do you do when you are in a museum so that it is simply too rich for your forces? I remember my finitude and cry.
One of the favorite subjects of Dutch painting was a representation of an ox, gutted, left to drip blood in a butcher shop. It is a subject of extreme power. An ox pulled apart can be queried thousands of times, and always has a response from us. An ox gutted a culture does not need to be understood. God is not accurately represented, an ox so gutted.
committed the lightness of the work to get a ticket for the same day when there is a zero-day Sziget. € You are thrown away (but there were three tickets €).
In Budapest there is always too much to do and too little time.
program to dine in a Persian restaurant and then to go at night in a turkish bath. In Budapest, of course.
is eating persian food. (Iranian sounds SO politically correct / incorrect / Engaged).
So much of continental climate in the evening in Budapest is a beautiful coolness in Pisa there is the dreams (sweaty).
If you change from Budapest, you can not miss the opening night of the Rudas thermal baths. If it comes out at four morning, cleansed, reborn, reborn. If I went back to Budapest after less than two months is basically why.
The day's program: a brief visit to the breakaway Museum of Applied Arts and then other Turkish baths, the Kiraly, I feel for the first time. Packed lunch, evening free.
The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest is one of those places where one willingly pays the price of admission just to see the building from the inside.
is impressive to see with their own eyes what was elegant and refined bourgeois the universe only a few moments before the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War. But who made him do?
The Italians on holiday in Budapest they all show very strong regional cadences, much more than it receives in Italy. There are only two: either it is all a big conspiracy to make people believe that the Hungarians the same as our stereotype, or tour operators consider a Budapest destination for deep only to Italy and send others to New York.
If I were asked to list the things that are worth living do not include the fourth movement of Mozart's Jupiter but include spa budapestine. With their unexpected nemesis: the Piccola French tourists.
sbufalato has a rich menu Raday Ut, he drank a pint of beer and left a generous tip of 15%. Total cost of seven euro and forty.
desperately looking for some nightlife Sunday on the last tram.
Although it is nice to mythologizing the countries they visit, I can testify that in Hungary you pull any of coca as a Villa Certosa in the third world.
The signs of crisis in Hungary, apart from the fact that the forint is worth nothing, and those coming from the euro zone dominates at will: at midnight the lights on the various monuments that makes a spectacular walk along the Danube is turned off.
forecast rain damage on day zero of the Sziget Festival. Fuck No!
has breakfast with a FokhagymĂ s Langos the Market Hall in Budapest. The breath thanks.
The difference between tourist and traveler does not exist. There is only the tourist isolated in a massively composed of locals and tourists surrounded by crowds of other tourists. So it's not the mood that is different, but they are mainly the boundary conditions. I defy anyone to be a "traveler" in Florence in August. O "tourist" in a desolate village in the Pannonian plain.
A day is never long enough for a body immersed in thermal water at 36 degrees.
EGO SUM VIA VERITAS ET VITA. But I do not I weigh.
Nightlife budapestina Charon has a good, the bus 906 which takes you back home when the situation seems hopeless. You could write a novel on the bus 906. `Probably have already done so much is going to bed.
Customer care is an art almost unknown in Budapest. The welcome and the farewell, in the most authentic and busy, is a moving "Proxima", said a rather loud. In short, much like the bars of Turin.
A stay abroad is never complete without a visit to the local Holocaust Museum. To Budapest was built by famous architects, consists mainly of photographs and texts in a cold, geometric, dotted lines of light and sound buttons to build more structured sounds. The effect is very strong.
"Everything that has happened here is a scandal that could have happened, and without exception sacred to the fact that it happened. "- Janos Pilinszky
Challenge the bad weather and headed fearlessly into the Sziget festival.
Advice for young travelers: in Budapest get the best exchange rate that does not stop withdrawing from ATMs. The best possible conditions can be found in the offices of Western Union Blaha Lujza Ter: to buy a € 269 and selling it for 275 florins. How do I pay us' s officer is a mystery. The bank next practice 264/281.
is morally out of Budapest and is now in a train full of HEV sciamanna post hippie typical of a cross International Music Festival with Camping. Luckily the Spring camp did not have it.
And the romantic myth that says "ok sziget it is expensive, ok the seven-day program does not apply to only one other festival, everything ok, but I controobiezione the end of the world: the beer costs a euro" shattered by the harsh reality: controlled prices at 450 guilders.
Instead, what really makes impression is the huge area dedicated to the stands, where you can find everything from gas mask with the flag of Jamaica to the guy who does the piercing to the dish. A huge flea market / hippies / Intercultural. There are literally hundreds, if not a thousand, to stand. Get Arezzo (not ItaliaWave), multiply by thirty, yet we have not.
not know about you, but I see hundreds of people from all over Europe continue sincerely and naively that "Peace and Love" is a current slogan, viable and credible, a little 'I touched. Certainly more than when I see hundreds of people with the cult of the Duce. And here, now, there is a stage that will jazz up the night with controcazzi, then happiness is a duty.
1:00 to 2:00 with the poignant visit to the Holocaust Museum and the WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WONDERFUL concert tribute to Miles Davis at the Sziget Festival, you realize you have lived one of the most emotional days' intense of his life. OF ALL HIS LIFE. One certainly among the top five. Now it will be 'emotionally at least one KO settinama.
or Sziget festival presents a program is not too exciting, too expensive and dilutes all too many days. I thought this until yesterday. But as it turns out live the main attraction: the giant rave music with lots of points and an inexhaustible supply of food and beer, which goes on all night. For seven nights. Next year we could make even a little thought.
crossed the Apennines and the Alps to come to the Ludwig Museum in Budapest and be able to report an exceptional body Hungarian artist, who died thirty years ago to 34 years: Tibor Hajas. Who can google Google!
and the big show Robert Capa at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. Things you did not know: Robert Capa is a pseudonym, and it was Hungarian, Budapest. In the faces of the Capa photo of German soldiers taken prisoner during the Second World War are beautiful.
had to go to Bratislava for three and a half but as it is not the end rincanebre preferred departure. Bratislava can be expected. And so now is the Tree of Life in front of Imre Varga, on the back of the largest synagogue in Europe (and the second largest in the world).
Zlaty a drink on a terrace of Margitsziget, sipping the last hours budapestine.
thanked the French tourists, near major population in Budapest in August, for giving him a way to exercise the most difficult of virtues: patience.
fter long meditations was reached the conclusion that, even after costs of exchange, Bratislava is a city for at least 30% cheaper than Budapest.
... and eventually the star as there is always found in Bratislava with a little 'Magon to wait for the plane that will take us back to the place where the people are sovereign and dick at the same time. We are looking at the consoles strophic that stuff here are as common as rain in March. Last
pale moments of life behind the Iron Curtain, with doubt: we will be able to pass the case in the booth Ryanair? The suitcase
enters the booth. I'll be back in the land of sky, sun, sea. A magical country, able to not only win the hearts of those who live, but also those who visit and so on.