My first trip to Hungary was in 2015. This was my first solo trip in over a decade, and I was very excited and grateful for the opportunity. The trip began in Prague for 4 days, then Bratislava, Slovakia for 2 days, and then to Budapest. I think that the layout of my trip really set me up to fall in love with Budapest. Cooking class Since Budapest was my last stop on the trip, by the time I got there, I hadn’t really spoken to anyone or had a real life conversation in a week. I don’t generally enjoy doing tours, so I never had a tour guide or…
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Saint Petersburg Day 3
Hermitage Museum I began the day at the Hermitage museum, a former palace turned art museum. Art museums are not really my favorite things, but I make do. I like learning about art, but going to a museum in Saint Petersburg and learning about Italian Rennaissance paintings is kind of nonsensical. However, the museum itself, another former palace, is amazing. It’s beautiful and the walls and ceilings and floors are all covered in ornate paintings and carvings and stone inlay. The museum itself is way more fun to look at than the paintings. Why spend my morning elbowing tourists out of the way to look at a 12-inch tall Raphael…
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Hutong District and Cooking Class
Facing the day Today was my second full day in Beijing, and I had such awesome adventures! My tour guide, Mr. Slackerson, said yesterday that today it would be too cold for the rickshaw drivers in the morning, so we should go to them in the afternoon. The itinerary was to have lunch at 11:30, go do a rickshaw tour of the Hutong alleys, then a tea ceremony, then visiting Shichahai Lake. After yesterday, I had little faith in his ability to actually arrange the tea ceremony that I had requested, so I got up this morning and hoofed it over to a fancy tea parlor. Let me back that…
