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we did a walking tour of the city today. learned a lot of hungarian history. this country has basically always been occupied it wasnt til the 1990s when they started to govern themselves.

rubicow! rubick was hungarian. we passed through an art park that had all these decorated plastic cows. there were these weird art school kids doing some sort of performance in the fountain. we didnt get it.

underneath the buda castle are labrynths that have been used for numerous things through out the years. while making our way thriough we found a fountain that shot out wine. the hole where it came out was a pigs mouth. it looked like bood spewing out.

today we got into budapest from venice. the train was late probably because we stopped like every hour to have our passports checked. at one stop they stamped them twice. there were some croatian hipster by us on the train. one had a hot snakes shirt on. anyway, our hostel is nice. it only has about 12 beds, so its small. but it has clean big showers. yay! our shower in rome was so small that when manuel turn he bumped the knob to scolding hot water.

when spent the day walking up and down the street our hostel is on. its very busy but only had a few bars. it was during this walk that we realized budapest is not inexpensive like we had planned on. its actually kind of expensive. we stopped in a bar to have our first shot of absinthe. the bar waitress did they whole presentation with the sugar and fire and warned us of its effects. we felt nothing. so we had some schnapps and beer and still nothing. we were disappointed. we headed back to the hostel. we met our two female roommates who are from belgium and very interested in talking to us. they told us that they hate americans except for manuel and me. oh and also they like chuck norison, walker, texas ranger.

we went to a very cool bar that a hostel staff member recommended. it was huge. it was in the courtyard of a building but it also occupied the first two floors of the building. it wasnt clubby at all. their were lots of locals just chatting with friends over beer. we did the same. but we learned that drinking hard alcohol will be better because its so cold outside.