16.04.2013 - BUDAPEST!!

After a very very very very tiring day, we are finally in the new flat in the city. It is amazing, although seems a bit noisy after Balaton:). Woke up still at the lake, had to tidy the house, make sure that everything is perfect so the family cant say a word about it:)...wanted to leave the house so bad that we were already at the ice cream place next to the train station an hour before the train arrived. When we got on, we saw that Ruby has two bugs in her (kullancs...), the first one came out pretty good, well, Scott took it out, but the second one didnt, so she still has a bit of the bug in her or something, so we might better take het to the vets tomorrow, at least we register them in Hungary. Scott was in a shock, since he's never seen this type of bug before, and the lady next to us on the train looked at us really weird, while one of us had to hold Ruby down and the other one using a plucker to take it out. Probably this was too much for us, because everyone fall asleep after and we arrived to Budapest!

Beautiful view from the restaurant

Our first stop was at Erste bank, so Scott can take money out for the rent and deposit, it took about half an hour to do that, since just because you have an Erste bank account in Austria, you cant use it properly here in Hungary. Tomorrow we have to set up a new joint bank account, but we dont know which bank yet. 

Had to sit down somewhere because we had a spare 2hrs before my mom came to pick us and the dogs up, as we couldnt take them with us for the meeting. Had a beautiful lunch in the Angelika Cafe at the Batthanyi square and Scott appreciated a lot that the waiter was talking to him in such an english way calling him mate, which is weird coming from a hungarian, but he was very cool with the dogs and all we can say, great service:)!! 

As usual, my mom misunderstood the time we had to meet, so she was half an hour late, which meant we were half an hour late from the meeting. After feeling funny standing on the side of the Rakpart with the dogs and all our stuff they finally arrived and we headed to the office leaving the dogs with my family. We were very desperate to have a shower and change our clothes, but there was no time. There were five people waiting for us at the table, the agent, the owner girl, her mom and two other people from the agency as one of them was an intern. Everyone else was dressed up nice and in a business way apart from us, just got off the MAV look, haha. The mom of the owner we can say was a bit of a snob, and we were so happy, that both of the girls who own the flat are going to be abroad, we just realised that the mom just works down the road, and she seems to be a kind of person who likes to keep an eye on everything. But she was still very helpful and spoke fluent english. We took the tram back with her to the flat and she showed us around, then we headed to the supermarket to fill our fridge up a bit. After Scotts request dinner in KFC (we love the location to have everything on our doorstep, even better than what we had in Vienna-Scott loves Mammut:)) we came back to the flat and wanted to have a nice bath since we have this unique tub. But we realised that there is no hot water, because the bojler doesnt seem to be turned on. They said we just have to let the water pour and it is going to turn itself on, but that never happened. So we are here in the new flat now, best view on the Castle District, but no hot water. We have to phone the mom first thing in the morning to figure out what we could do, but it is too much familiar to the week in Vienna when our bojler broke. At least now it is not minus degrees outside:)....

Sooo much to do tomorrow, and we are very tired, but it is nice to be in the city, definitely going to enjoy ourselves here, and hopefully we are going to sort this hot water thing out quick and make sure the dogs are fine, than it is all perfect!!!

Tomorrow is going to be about getting ourselves into the Buda atmosphere. We have one bar that we found on the internet and looks very nice in the Dohany street, so its definitely worth a look. Other than that we have to say we still didnt find a way to relax, we have been working hard and so much happened since we left Austria. We have to give ourselves time to adopt and get used to being here and last but not least to enjoy our time. 

Water please!