Last Sunday I visited Budapest with a Hungarian guy I knew thanks to a website. For the future EVS and anyone else who likes travelling this website can be interested : www.hieverywhere.com
There you can find people who accept to be your touristic guide. And of course in return you’ve got to be their touristic guide in your own city.
With Csaba (pronounced Tchaba) we’ve been walking 3hours in this cold but pretty Budapest. We’ve been to touristic places, to the Jewish district (3 synagogues at 15 meters from each other) and close to the Danube !!! I don’t know why I really wanted to see it. Maybe because all the documentaries I’ve watched before coming were talking about the Danube. By the way, Csaba took a picture of me front of a bridge. This is the bridge where the French student have disappeared in December. So ironic isn’t it !
Budapest doesn’t look like Paris. Paris is beautiful but seems to be so “uniform” with its Haussmann style. Here you can find in one street 4 following flats with different architectures (from different periods sure). I can hear some people to say : “what’s this upside down city ?!” But I like it. Just by looking the buildings you can see a part of the Hungarian history. On some walls there are still the holes done by the shootings of the 1956 uprising (ok this is not a history lesson, so just remember that this year is important for Hungarian people and there was an uprising). Ok no conclusion. Just… It’s so good.
