We are not Lost!!

Have to catch up finally with the blog, sorry for disappearing for so long after the opening, but overwhelming is not even the word describing what the last month was like. Finally it looks like we are going to be okay on the legal side of things and our opening hours, but it has been a long way of being only open officially till 10 o clock and having private parties just to make a bit of income on the weekends. It is definitely not the way we imagined it to be. 

Since we are open, we had crazy nights, just like having the 30 english guys around for 3 days, as they stayed next door in the hotel on their stag-do. We are getting to know our boundaries as well, what we can handle, how it is to have our own bar, and coming to a conclusion that it is not such a good idea for us to drink on shift. Actually this past month was even a bigger emotional roller coaster then the first one when we were only revamping the bar. Now it is all about us making it successful. When we first sat here and had no customers at all till about 9pm, we were going a bit crazy, thinking what have we got ourselves into, and how will we ever see people here. After that we had some busy nights and great events, that gave us hope and patience when we are about to think that this is never going to work. Also we realised how quick money goes on things, such as the tax, rent, drink orders, and without being busy all the time it is hard to stay focused and not panic. On the plus side we met so many cool people from around the bar, and we have a couple of great djs and artists coming around and playing.

If we look at the bar we have come such a long way, it is very exhausting to keep up everyday (I dont succeed sometimes, but then Scott is here to cheer me up) and think positive. 

New Bar Look:)

As I already wrote about it before, we were due to get our extended licence on the 27th June, but instead of that, we were told, that there is something wrong with the paper we gave in from the building, so we have to confirm it, but there was a complication with the house, and for a week it all looked like we are going to loose the licence and have to shut at 10pm every night which would be just a death sentence for the bar. What we had to do was get a signature from the owners of the building stating they allow us to be open. Now, this wasnt easy at all, and it took us over a week, making a crazy phone bill calling everyone, when most of the flats are empty and no one really knows how to reach the person responsible for the property. Yesterday we finished with it, got more than 55% instead of 51%, and we got to know most of the tenants and I can say, they are pretty cool:)! So, through here as well, thanks for them for supporting us, and taking their time to come around and talk to us. 

Now, we are quite broke, there is no nicer way of putting it, and it is very annoying that Scott lost all his money on the flat in Vienna, since they were not able didnt want to get new tenants in the flat, and also I lost a bigger amount of money in the past, which we could use now to get the bar in good position again. We are very happy with our events, we had a quiz, had Kensho Coast with an amazing guitar concert and we are glad that we can say our customers are 50% foreigners and 50% hungarians, just the way we wanted it. 

Future plans

We are very busy every day and it is shit, that when we open the bar, we are already over a full day, giving out flyers in front of the hostels, take the dogs for a walk, Scott cleans the bar and get ready for the night. We realised now, that it is going to take time for people to know about Lost in Budapest, so the journey just started on the way to create a unique bar experience in Budapest! We still say take a risk live the dream, but sometimes we have to tell it ourselves more so we keep our spirits high:)!! 

Welcome back everyone on the blog, from now on I will write down everything again on how we are getting there:)!!!