9/23/11 Budapest Day 2
The second day we decided to take a couple tours around the city. We were recommended a “Free Touring Company”. The way it works is that the tour guides work on tips. You tip according to how much you enjoyed the tour. In our recent traveling experience, we have enjoyed these more than the paid ones since the tour guides have to impress us in order to earn their tip. We took two separate tours that day and both were good.
The first was an overview of the city filled with fun facts about the city:
1. Scams to avoid – men, beware of any hot blonde that approaches you
2. College traditions to follow - take a look at a picture below and find out what shines on the horse
3. A tour of other great monuments –see an example below
| From 2011.09.22 Budapest |
| From 2011.09.22 Budapest |
4. Also we saw a castle and some churches
The second was a Jewish tour. I think the tour guide could have been more energetic and tell us more about the history, but it was Friday afternoon and he didn’t seem to be in the mood to give another tour. There were some cool things anyway. For example:
We made it inside the big Synagogue for free because it was almost Shabbat and the guard felt gracious. We got the recommendations for pubs and restaurants for the next 3 days. See pics of the really cool pub in the last post about Budapest.
P.S. from Levka - Julie got a private violin lesson:
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