Today we woke up, ate breakfast at the hostel (which had a panini maker so that was pretty cool) and then we planned on doing the walking tour done by the hostel, but when we asked, they told us they only do it on weekends during the slower seasons, so we decided to just walk around ourselves. First, we headed to see the Basilica and then we headed across to Chain Bridge that took us over to BudaCastle and where we got a beautiful view of the city and Parliament.
After seeing all the different areas of the castle, we headed back down and ran into the other group that was in Budapest (Colleen, Morgan M, Monica, Halee, Claudia, Jackie, Alle, Kate and Erin) and they gave us a recommendation to a restaurant called Spiler near our hostel they ate at the night before, and we exchanged our recommendation of the buffet we had loved to much as well.After meeting with them, we headed back to our hostel area and ate at hummus bar... and I'm not going to lie... it was one of my favorite parts of the trip. I got homemade lemonade with the "complete hummus bowl" which was hummus with roasted chick peas, falafel and mushrooms with pita on the side... aka my dream food. Once we all ate our weight in hummus (except Amanda who doesn't like hummus....) we headed back to the hostel and took a little nap before going to dinner.
Dinner we went to Spiler as recommended and it was pretty good. Not one of our favorite places, but that could also be because we had eaten so great in Prague and the night before, it was hard to compare. At Spiler I got a salmon burger which was really good, but the fries were like McDonalds fries... except not even that good, so that was a slight disappointment.
After dinner, we did our final pub crawl (assuming we can't find one in Split) where we met in the square. The pub crawl was through a lot of the ruin pubs throughout Budapest and it was a really fun experience not only to see all the history and different set ups of these places, but we also got to meet a group from Australia that were traveling all throughout Europe as well. We hung out with them for the majority of the night and the other girls headed back around 2, but Sheley and I stayed out because the Australians were so much fun. Finally at about almost 5 am we headed back to the hostel... where we saw the other group leaving for the train... new low, but so worth it. After chatting with them for a bit, we headed to bed to sleep for what little time we could before the other girls were ready to head out for the day.
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