Can I be real with you for one hot second?
When we first moved to Budapest, I could not stop comparing it to my beloved Prague. Even though I wrote a whole post about how Budapest is not the next Prague (and that’s a good thing!), I was doing that thing I hate: falling into the comparison trap.
As time passed, I learned it wasn’t Budapest itself I was having trouble adjusting to necessarily–it was things like my job, a flat that kept falling apart, a gray winter, visa issues. The longer I’ve lived in Budapest–and now that it’s past the one year mark, I’ve lived here longer than I lived in Prague!–the more I’ve come to love it, flaws and all.
I recently decided to renew my contract, which means that E and I will be staying in Budapest for at least one more school year! To celebrate, here are 18 photos to make you fall for Budapest, too–and hopefully get your butt over here, already!
Parliament at night = glorious 
goulash 
Ria, Ria, Hungaria! 
Gelato + pretty building means you’re sold now, right? 
probably my favorite statue in Budapest 
the castle in the park by our flat. NOW I’ve got ya! 
Ruin pub 
The incomparable Fisherman’s Bastion 
the Danube gets icy in the winter
also Christmastime here is fantastic.
Danube views 
Chain Bridge & castle, of course!
So, when are you buying your tickets??
Linking up with Wanderful Wednesday.
I love that your love for Budapest has grown! There is nothing like falling in love with the place you live, because you are then lucky enough to see it everyday – what could be better! 🙂
Yes! I really did grow to love it! And now of course that I’m not there the distance has made me even more sentimental 😉
great photos! #wanderfulwednesday
Thank you!
I feel like everyone is raving about Budapest right now and that it might become the next Prague 😉 I definitely have to see it for myself!
It’s such a fun city and it’s still pretty cheap!! Prague is more expensive and more crowded, for sure.
Ah, I love Budapest too! I will visit over and over and not get tired. To be honest, the city really surprised me (on the positive side). #WednesdayWanderlust
Yes, I feel like people are just starting to talk about Budapest, it’s still a little under the radar!
The icy Danube photo is my favorite, but I do love that basset hound statue :)) I first visited Budapest on a whirlwind Central European backpacking trip, and I was so ashamed at the time that Prague and Budapest kept mixing together in my mind because they were the two most “Eastern” I visited… but coming back to Budapest, it is so different and lovely in it’s own way – best to be experienced separate from Prague.
Yes, I agree! My mother-in-law kept saying she didn’t want to visit Budapest since they had visited Prague and she thought they would be the same–but I really don’t think so! But seeing them back to back, maybe 😉