Györ, Hungary

Györ is a small city in Hungary. We decided to make a small stop there as it is nice to also visit smaller places from a country and not just the capital city. Doing so gives us a better view of how the people live in that country. This city also has a lot of history and a very beautiful old part with a tower and old streets. We climbed the tower for a small fee that gave us a great view over the old part of downtown. For us, it was more of a view of the flooding but we will show the pictures from that and a few other flooded cities we visited in the next post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Budapest, Hungary

We took a night train from Dresden to Budapest. We first visited a friend that couchsurfed at our home in British Colombia last summer. He lives in Ilmenau, Germany, we stayed overnight and then took the train to Dresden for a connection with the night train. We arrived 10 minutes late in Dresden for the connection but we were lucky enough to see our train still on the next track when we arrived. The night train ended up leaving 2 hours late and got to Budapest 5 hours later than expected. We were in good company so the ride was fun. We met 2 girls from Amsterdam and a couple from close to London. This is them on the first picture and it also shows how "big" the room was. We did make it there so everything was good in the end. The apartment we reserved was a 2 min of walk from the station, but we walked for 20 min to get there as we didn't take the proper map with us. We found the place and contacted our host, which came right away and showed us the apartment. We were living on the 4 th level of an old building that have 20 ft ceiling or so. It was a really nice place and we enjoyed having our own place that we didn't share with anyone for 3 nights. The next day we visited downtown and really liked it there. We keep saying this about everywhere but it is really beautiful here. We spent the next two days exploring the city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dresden, Germany

Dresden is a small city in south-eastern Germany. It is officially in the east so the mentality is a little different already. We took a morning train from Berlin and saw lots of water in the fields and everywhere. We talked for an hour with a couple from Toronto that are going to Prague. They also said the subway in Prague was flooded. We didn't expect so much water but the flooding seems worst than the bad one in 2002. The city still had quite a few nice spots that we liked. The hostel, Lollis Homestay, also had a really relaxed atmosphere, so we felt like home again.