Sorry for the long delay... this semester is almost half way through!! It's crazy how fast these past months have flown by.
The semester started out wonderful. Moved into a new apartment right by the Ponte Vecchio. We had some fun roomie bonding the first weekend back.
The following weekend my roommate Anna and I decided to go on a spur of the moment trip to Prague. Really cool place and amazing night life. The first day there we did a walking tour of the city and then had some time to explore on our own. We ended up going to this little restaurant and ordered a platter called a pork\ knuckle and this is literally how it came out...
It was delicious!! That night we ended up going on a pub crawl with some people we met in our hostel. The next day we ended up going on another walking tour up to the castle district where we saw a really pretty cathedral and amazing views. We also hit up the John Lennon Wall and Charles Bridge.That night we decided to go on a beer tasting around the city and tasted the first Pilsner made. An interesting fact about beer, you are supposed to have a two finger head on the beer, that means it is a good quality and people get irritated if there isn't. Strange to think that in the states it is the exact opposite. One really cool thing about Prague was that a lot of the bars we went to were underground and when they were excavating them they found skulls because it was a burial place for the people who had the black plague. Traveling, learning, and having fun all at the same time!
A few weekends later, Anna and I decided to go to Budapest. Again, we ended up doing a walking tour of the city and snapped some pictures of the foggy views.
An interesting fact about Budapest is that it was originally two cities. On one side of the river it was called Buda and on the other side of the river it was called Pest. After a long exhausting walking tour, we headed over to the baths where we got to relax. The baths is a huge complex.The center is all open and has two big pools the temperature of hot tubs. Inside, there are many different small baths. Some were mineral baths, some cold, even one for aerobics. There were also different types of saunas. The first one that we decided to go into last about 5 seconds. Come to realize the temperature was 30-40 degrees Celsius that is around 105 degrees in Fahrenheit! We did come to enjoy some other saunas though, a mint one and a UV one. After a few hours in the baths we decided we deserved a treat and got full body messages. That night we ended up going out to this kick ass bar/club/shisha/restaurant called Simpla. If you ever go to Budapest go here... you will never find another place like it. We ended up hanging out with our friend Tom who we had met in Prague. That is one thing I love about staying in hostels. You meet people from all over and most of them with the same mindset, chill, down-to-earth people who are just enjoying life as it comes along. It's how I've come to meet some amazing people.
After our two trips, I decided to lay low for a bit and enjoy Florence. This coming up week my friend Ryen is coming to stay with me and we are going to head down to Rome for the weekend. Then I am off to Greece for Spring Break!!
