Budapest

Friday night Andy and I flew to Budapest, Hungary. We arrived at our hotel, not really sure what to expect because it was a 5* hotel that we got a SWEET deal on - we were pleasantly surprised. Our room was almost as big as our 2 bed flat, which is not saying a ton, but it was a great size hotel room. When we checked in, the man at the front desk wrote the wrong room number down for us, so when the bellman used his universal key to open the room he totally walked in on people having sex! (not really, about the sex part, but really about opening the door to a room that someone was already staying in). So because the hotel messed up we got a free bottle of champagne! I'm hoping the people that we walked in on got one too, but somehow I doubt it. So because of how Andy booked the room we were part of the Executive Club or something similar to that, which meant free breakfast, free lunch (which we didn't take part in), free drinks, etc. It was great!

On Saturday we spent the day wandering around Pest, checking out markets, bridges, pretty buildings, drinking mulled wine, eating yummy market food, etc. bridge across the danube

christmas crafts at one of the markets

sausage, chips and mulled wine

me with a GIANT pretzel

Andy taking a break after a long day of walking

On Sunday we spent the day in Buda. Andy led a great group tour (me and him) around Castle Hill. He's thinking about quitting his day job to lead tours full time ;), but said it's a lot harder to deal with the customers than he thought it would be! I kept wanting to go off the tour to check other things our and he wasn't very cool about it...it looks like it's snowing, but just a crappy camera

cute carme on castle hill - very coldat the House of Hungarian Wines, where they have 50+ wines to sample I was lucky enough to get a wink in the elevator from this handsome man!!