Hi, lovelies.
Welcome to the first of our Budapest travel vlogs.
We ate a lot of amazing food, which I'm going to make all into its own video open to you next week.
Happy Birthday to me!
(Yay!)
Two hour delay, yes.
Sorry, Claudia.
It's all right.
Not your fault. It's this fog.
Oh, wow.
Huh?
It's the fog.
It is the fog!
Bloody fog.
Anyway!
Hi, guys!
Welcome to our video about our trip to Budapest!
Yeah!
If we get there.
If we get there!
Hopefully.
So, a short bit of retail therapy later...
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Here's our gorgeous hotel room.
Not so sure about that light
but the birthday gift was so lovely...
We only had a few short minutes to freshen up
before Claudia whisked me away to my birthday surprise.
The meal was absolutely amazing...
but this is where we learnt that getting a bill in forint
can be heart-stopping!
Wha?!
[Laughs]
Time for breakfast!
And my obsession with badly filming the dining room continues, so...
I don't even know what this is.
I'm sorry.
You know it's been a good birthday when you're planning today and
wearing last night's dress...
Also, champagne.
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Quick change of clothes later
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(and some posing)
and we're off to the shops!
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['Sudden musical halt' noise]
That's just weird!
So where have we come?
We're at an antique doll exhibition.
It said it had a free doll exhibition.
Yeah.
Which is...
Free doll exhibition.
They're freaking me out.
That girl's like...she's staring.
She's in it, for me.
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We then realised that all of the Christmas decorations get left up throughout January
which is basically my idea of Heaven.
(See here.)
And Claudia found masses of chillies
...which is HER idea of Heaven!
Public transport in Budapest is amazing!
We took trams everywhere.
But the public flower beds are full of cabbages...
and they really...smell.
That's Saint Matthias Church.
It looks like a fairy-tale castle
and there are NO words for how happy that made me.
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Yes, that is actual ice floating down the river.
Again, it makes me so happy.
Largely because we haven't quite frozen to the core yet.
(Yet!)
So, the snow is still very exciting.
Keep watching.
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(We took a lot of photographs!)
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Are you having fun so far in Budapest, then, wife?
I am having so much fun, my wifes.
Thank you for bringing me.
It's not actually too cold. The sun is shining, it's lovely!
No! It's really quite nice.
The having all the snow on the ground makes it not so cold!
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In the time it took us to come down the hill and cross the bridge,
the temperature dropped five degrees!
FIVE degrees!
Down to minus eight.
We thought our toes were going to fall off.
Still dancing, though.
[Laughs]
Come back tomorrow for part two of our adventures in Budapest.