which side of the Danube is better Buda or Pest?
hey guys I'm Ross and Bek, my lovely wife is behind the camera she does all the
amazing editing and well, all the hard work around here so hit the thumbs up
hit the like button just for her now we've been in Budapest for one month
recently and we want to tell you whether it's worth visiting the place or not so
Bek has come up with some tricky questions and she's going to extract the
honest opinion from me on Budapest so I have my Minnie Mouse mug in our Airbnb
and I'm ready to answer let's go Bek what have you got I'm scared - don't be scared, I'll be gentle
Is Budapest the most beautiful city you've ever been to?
mmm oh well Bek and I've been travelling for years and recently full time we've
been to some amazing places but yes guys you heard it here first budapest
architecturally is the most beautiful place we've ever seen
Sum it up in a few words. Two words three
words stunning and let's party
Good value or not? Yeah like we we work online and we
live on a budget and Budapest can be expensive but to be honest there's a lot
of really good value options right through the city and food attractions
just beautiful stuff to see
why did you choose Budapest?
well Bek has been at me for years wanting to go to Budapest but we started
in Greece and we've just slowly been working our way north into Europe so
yeah it made sense to go now but yet Bek wanted to go
Which side of the Danube is better? Buda or Pest? Ask a local and that
you might get into trouble guys and you know there's an argument which one's
better Buda or Pest - which side is better? We stayed on pest - loved it!
Jewish quarter and food galore lots of museums beautiful architecture the
ruin bars. Pest side for us was the best and Buda is amazing - you need to
go and look at it but pest is where it's at. Best thing about the place?
hmm it's a textbook dream of what you would think Europe should look like it's
it's kind of like walking around on a movie set they do actually do a lot of
movies in Budapest in Hungary because it's just perfect like you literally
feel out of this world in Budapest.
Something weird? there's a few things but
the one thing that comes to mind is a lot of people will say Szia (see ya) and well
for you Hungarians out there you know what that means but but that kind of
means hello so it was a very confusing to start a
conversation for an English person. See ya!
What are the people like?
they are so friendly big smiles on their face a lot of them love practicing their
English on us when we were walking around just doing everyday things and
apparently Hungarian is extremely hard to learn so yeah it was good that they
were happy to practice their English on us.
Worst thing about the place?
I think this is kind of a bit
nitpicky but the menus for me are very confusing in a lot of places we go in
and they price by gram or by mills and so for example wine it'll say you know
three or four hundred forint for the wine and you can he'll have a glass of
that but actually that's for a hundred mills and they happen to afford 250 mills
and so you pay it twice or three times as much yes so just keep your eye out
for the menus and make sure you understand what you're actually getting
yourself in for all. What else confused you?
right very simple goulash and everywhere you go you speak
to the locals you look at menus and you google it as well goulash is either a soup
or a stew and some people say it's somewhere in between yeah keep your eye
out for that one. Try both!. Our favorite was the stew better. Hungarian friends
wack and comments down below and tell us is it a stew is it a soup? is it a stoup?
Favourite food and why? Look a lot of stews are good but - they are, they're amazing but breaded
meats and sausages big sausages are just amazing in Hungary also it's the way
they cook it it's just slow cool - really juicy and moist Bek will love that
How do you get around? Just walk or tram we caught trams everywhere really inexpensive and
very direct, covers all parts of the city on Buda and Pest that would be our hot
tip is use the trams. We used the trains once or twice but you really need to
know where you're going didn't really need to use uber or taxis.
thanks Minnie!
Any other hot tips on transport? One thing with the trains is to make sure that you validate your ticket
on the way in because no one's checking you if you do that on the way out
there's inspectors waiting to ping you and well luckily for us now we did
validate our ticket but yeah just a rookie error is to think it's free and
then on the way out you'll get stung,
You went to the baths, what did you think? I love them like they're the coolest
things ever I wish every city that we visited had these baths the thermal
baths they're amazing that I can't say the name the fancy one where all the
tourists go such as me or something Bek will put on the screen that's worth
visiting but if you really want an authentic experience going to some of
the local bars like belly was that Veli Bej
and király they're my favorites two local baths. You get a traditional experience
with saunas and really old you feel it is stepping back into last century so do
yourself a favor get off the tourist map and go to some of these other baths
Internet Speeds? The fastest! Ever in the whole wide world we have been in Kuala
Lumpur recently and we thought their internet was ridiculously fast but but
yeah in Hungary we had fiber connections with wait for it 900 megabits per second
up and downloads with a really fast ping so a few nerds out there that's super
fast and probably about 50 to 60 times faster than Australia.
Is it worth it? Minnie, is it worth it? Yes it's worth it!
Totally the best city I've ever been to Budapest was a place that Bek and I
was saying, "could we move here could we live here?" hmm yes we could it's amazing
so that's what we honestly think of Budapest if you guys are interested in
knowing more about the cities that we visit please drop some comments down
below and tell us what questions you want answered we're Ross and Bek we work
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