Well good morning good morning.
It is a beautiful Friday here in Budapest so today we're planning a day trip.
A day trip.
We are going to Szentendre.
Or at least that is how we think it is pronounced.
It means Saint Andrews.
Yeah, and I mean to get there we're going to have to take what a some kind of a metro.
Metro.
Train.
And then I think we're going to be taking a river cruise on the way back.
Yes.
So today is going to be about exploration and also the transportation too.
Let's go.
We have our tickets in hand and this is a very fast moving escalator.
It is almost a little scary to get on.
Haha.
How much did we pay?
They were 350 Forent each.
So like just slightly over a Euro basically.
We have arrived!
We've arrived.
It was a 30 minute journey and we actually bought the wrong tickets.
Yeah.
So we had this lady came on and it looked like she was actually selling baked goods
but no she was a ticket checker.
She was an inspector and so we had to pay what was it?
310 Forent on the spot.
Yeah.
Yeah, which isn't a lot.
It is not a lot.
Alright guys so we have arrived in the center of town and that was a very short walk wasn't
it?
Yeah, super short and already our first impressions I think of this place is that it is so cute
and that it is so quaint and quiet compared to Budapest.
Cute and quaint.
Look at the words Sam is using.
Yeah, that is surprising for this early in the morning.
Haha.
But I am hungry so I'm thinking let's how about our first order of business is to go
get some food?
Alright, food.
Food.
So apparently this is the way to Langos (Lángos) for pancakes.
We are here.
Oh my gosh.
Tada.
So I'm sitting at a bit of an awkward angle here because look.
The bench is at the same height is the table.
But we have food in front of us.
Let me show you.
We researched this one place online that serves langos (lángos) and it looks like a fried dough.
We ordered the variety with sour cream and cheese on top and I also put like garlic sauce
and hot sauce.
Oh my gosh that is fully loaded.
It looks pretty tasty.
Hot.
My snack is jacked.
Your snack is jacked.
Let's see.
Mmmm.
Is it good?
That is good.
Yeah.
It is just like a fried dough.
Fried dough.
It is a pretty simple batter with toppings.
Mmmhmmm.
And you know what?
We saw that you can get this as a savory snack or a sweet snack with like jam or fruit on
top so yeah.
We're going savory.
And for dessert.
And on to dessert that did not last long I have to say.
The first one.
The langos (lángos).
Yeah, we were pretty hungry so.
So if you can see this here there is tonnes of icing sugar on the side and we did you
order the cinnamon one?
Cinnamon variety.
That is the one that I had asked for.
As requested.
Thank you.
Okay, so I'm not sure how you're supposed to have this but I'm just going to take a
huge bite.
Mmmmm.
Oh man.
When they said they were putting cinnamon on here they did not skimp out.
That is really nice.
I can also taste like a little bit of maybe honey and brown sugar added too.
Mmmhmm.
And the texture of this pancake is very delicate it is like a crepe.
And man, this is just a nice sweet treat to end off our little first snack of the day.
Meow meows.
Hi meow meows.
Are we making a friend?
Yes.
Hello friend.
Oh there is another cat.
So that was a pretty tasty snack and if you want to find that place you basically follow
this tiny little alleyway that is all stairs just off of the main square and half way up
you'll see the shop on your right hand side and then once you're done eating your langos
you keep going up the steps and you're going to reach a second square with a church and
you get some pretty cool views of the town and we're pretty high up right now.
(Church Bells Ringing)
So Sam is not the biggest fan of museums and this town has a lot museums but one of them
is wine museum.
Yeah.
So thoughts on that?
Thoughts on that is I actually can't wait to explore that and there is another museum
that we want to go as well.
And that is the marzipan.
And we're doing this for your Mom Audrey.
My Mom would love this.
She's like marzipan a lot.
Yes.
So we are visiting food and drink themed museums which is great.
I hear that at the wine museum they have a cellar and they have a restaurant and you
can drink wine while you are there.
Well there you go.
Let's go find it.
Sold.
He found it.
There he is filming the wine museum.
We are going to be drinking wine.
Drinking wine.
I don't even know what that accent is.
That is definitely not Hungarian.
We are just being goofy.
Oh my gosh.
Goofballs.
So we are right down here in the cellar and right now we are the only people visiting
it.
Yeah.
So visiting the museum is free and then you can pay to do a wine tasting or you could
just have lunch and drink some wine so I think that is what we're going to do because we
are still pretty hungry after that snack.
Haha.
Also the lesson of the day if you're a really tall man you kind of need to hunch down here
because like 30 seconds into it Sam was like urggh.
He walked into the wall.
That is the story of my life.
You don't know how many times I've banged my head on walls or shower stalls.
If you're not paying attention like even I could bump my head.
I think the worst thing for me is that I'm not super tall.
Like I'm 6 foot one but like I feel like a lot of these places that I hit my head on
like it is kind of in my blind spot.
Like if I was a little bit taller I might see it.
If I was a little bit shorter I'd somehow get under it.
I don't know.
So I already have a favorite part of this wine tour museum.
Oh yeah?
What is that?
That by far is the temperature down here.
Oh my gosh.
It is so cool.
Of course you would say that.
Oh, this is wonderful.
This is like refuge from the warmth outside.
Yeah, and I don't know if you can see this over here but there is mold.
Yeah?
On these gates because of the cool temperature.
I think I could be a wine cellar dwellar.
Alright.
We'll leave you behind here.
We are now entering the Weinshop.
The weinshop.
And check out this.
This is the local Hungarian wine.
The Bikaver.
Oh yeah.
2014.
We've been drinking that one.
We have.
We finally found a really good one from the grocery store.
There was a couple of duds.
Like I usually error on the side of being cheap.
Yep.
But I found one that is really good value and we'll be showing that in kind of a picnic
video.
Oh really?
Picnic video.
And now Sam is going to recite the 10 commandments for wine drinkers.
Begin.
New drink wine on an empty stomach.
Never eat sweet dishes before drinking.
Pay attention to the temperature of the different types of wine.
Always drink wine slowly.
What?
(Sam speaking fast)
Alright.
That is pretty good advice.
I've definitely broken some of those especially drinking it on an empty stomach but uh yeah.
Good advice.
This is pretty cool.
It is indeed.
Look at that.
That lady has big boobs.
My wine has arrived so I ordered the house red.
I believe this one is a cabernet sauvignon.
So let's see if I've learned a thing of two from all of the wine tastings I've been to.
Swirl it around.
Sniff and see some of the notes.
What do we smell here?
Let's close our eyes and pay attention.
Hahahaha.
I'm still not very good with the notes.
I would choose like raisins and plums and cherries.
Is that right?
I guess it is up to my nose right?
Whatever my nose thinks is right.
It is all highly subjective.
Uh huh.
Even though you know there are experts that would say oh that is definitely tastes like
this but it is all subjective.
I like it.
It goes down smooth.
It is not dry.
Which I like.
And it is not one of those full bodied wines that is really overpowering.
I'm not a big fan of those.
This is right up my alley.
That is more my style.
Yeah.
Hahaha.
The food is here.
And check it out.
I got goulash (gulyás) of course because when in Hungary.
Gagaga-goulash.
Look at my bowl.
Look at that.
It is like a little metal basket type deal.
It is so cute.
Let's call it a cauldron.
A cauldron.
A mini cauldron.
Pick up that cauldron.
Where I can brew my special potions for Sam.
Is that the witches brew?
So he will still love me.
Haha.
But yeah look at it.
As long as you feed me.
Just kidding.
It is so hot.
I already burned myself.
I was eating before you started filming.
Well, good good good.
It is hot.
So hot.
Fresh off of the stove.
And I think this one has a bit more paprika than the one I had the first time in Budapest
when we went out for food.
This one is a little more spicier.
But it is good.
I'm happy.
So Sam here went for super Hungarian dish am I right?
Hahaha.
Not really.
It is more Italian than anything.
Yeah, this is chicken.
Chicken breast with cheese and napolitana sauce.
So let's get a little bit of all of that.
Mmmm.
What do you think?
Mmmm.
I especially like the sauce.
Yeah?
Yeah.
That is the best part.
Really rich and flavorful.
It is nice and savory.
And the temperature inside of this restaurant is cool so I don't mind having a bit of a
warmer dish like this right now.
And you've got some nice potato wedges happening over there.
I know.
All mine.
All his.
All mine.
All his.
So we have just entered the Marcipan museum.
And I'm used to seeing like small little works of marzipan that are edible but they usually
are like small.
And right now we're going to see some monster works of art made with marzipan.
Wait until you see this.
Mickey Mouse over here.
Let's look at him.
He weighs 94 kilograms.
And you thought I was fat.
And the work time was 120 hours.
And he's made out of marzipan.
Pure marzipan by Angela.
Good job Angela.
Meet Michael Marzipan Jackson.
Looking fly.
And the wedding cakes.
Also made out of marzipan.
Here we have King Stephen the first king of Hungary in marzipan form.
And this one kind of resembles my family's dog Togo the German Shepherd.
So Sam simply couldn't resist the chance to try marzipan.
No, after that museum it was like we've got to eat some right?
Yeah.
So we didn't get a fancy little animal.
No.
We went for like a big tube of marzipan.
We went for a big tube.
We're going for the economical tube.
Because yeah there were some pretty cute looking animals and faes.
I almost feel guilty eating one of those.
I know.
What do you think?
I quite like it.
I didn't grow up eating marzipan though so it is slightly an acquired taste for me.
But yeah, it wouldn't be my go to sweet.
But it is decent.
It is okay.
Yeah?
Yeah.
So what is your experience with Marzipan?
My experience.
Okay, so when I was little and living in Argentina my Mom's cousin would visit from Germany and
he would bring little marzipan animals and I thought they looked so cute but that they
tasted disgusting.
I couldn't stand the taste of marzipan.
So we would just put them on the birthday cakes as decorations.
Let's see if I've acquired a taste for this.
So in other words you would have collected a museum of them in your house.
You could have opened your own museum.
What do you think?
It is not bad but I'm still not a huge fan.
It is like an almond paste.
Like a sweet, sugary almond paste.
It is too bad we couldn't send the rest of this to your Mom huh?
My Mom would devour it.
She would like that.
I know.
So Audrey we are going to inquire about renting a chair.
A beach chair and napping in the sunshine.
Well I'm going in the shade.
He looks grumpy because he had to get the drinks for us.
He looks grumpy.
Hold those.
Here it is.
So we may have overdone it in the food and wine department.
We are stuffed.
Yes.
So since we've arrived in town we've had that fried dough.
The langos.
Yeah.
We've had lunch.
We've had lunch with wine.
I had goulash.
Yes.
And then we also got.
We had a little snack with the marzipan.
Oh right, we had that we went to the cafe.
Didn't we?
We had cake.
Now we're having drinks.
Anyways, the reason we're kind of chilling right now is we've decided we want to take
a river cruise back.
And that doesn't go until five.
And right now it is 3 pm.
We feel we've had a really good walk through the town.
Yes,, so we want to cool off a bit.
Down by the river there is a really nice area and it is shaded, lots of trees, you have
lawn chairs.
It is so cool.
So this is going to be our siesta.
We're going to have lemonade and an afternoon nap.
Oh, I can't wait for the nap.
I did not sleep well last night guys.
Oh my gosh.
That was the best sleep.
I've been conked out for like a half hour.
Oh my gosh.
Dream siesta.
Waking up.
So we are back in the city.
We hope you guys enjoyed the footage from the boat.
Oh man, we were treated to like amazing light and just on the right side of the boat too.
It was incredible.
So yeah, we actually were thinking of taking the metro back but we saw the light and it
is just so gorgeous outside so we're like why not walk.
Walking back.
Let's walk across the bridge and walking all the way back to our apartment now.
Yes.
Alright and that is it for today.
See yah later.