“Travels to a Different Time” : 29May1975: Budapest, Hungary: Living and Eating Like a Royal: Love Those Hungarian Dumplings!

Finally a nice sunny late spring day. Did a little wash of clothes and hung them out on the balcony. Yes sir I have a balcony with a view of the city. A low budget Ritz-Carlton! Went out to purchase my supplies for breakfast and I ate like an aristocrat on my balcony. I did find milk but it wasn’t that good. I walked around Budapest for at least 4 hours and the more I see the more I like it. It reminds be of a crumbling Vienna. I stopped for an orange drink in a café and it was 50 cents. The cost of living here is about half of Vienna’s. The pollution is bad here with thick smog. I took the subway close to home which was a railway station and walked 10 minutes from there. I had a hot shower for 50 cents. I had a bottle of peas for a snack and read for a bit. Opened a beer and sat on my balcony watching life below. I walked to the self service nearby and had some sort of meat with Hungarian dumplings which are very tasty! The cutlery was the cheapest I have seen and you place your dishes on a flimsy aluminum tray. I wanted to go see a movie called “Sleuth” with Michael Caine but it had been dubbed in Hungarian so I decided not to see it. Home at 8:30 and off to bed after reading for an hour.