My Hungarian Holiday

I have rarely met anyone who had bad things to say about Hungary or Hungarian people. The only critisizm might be is about the deteriorating condition of some buildings in Budapest. It is true that some of the outer suburbs still need a lot of attention, however the "Paris of the East" is still glorious day or night, summer or winter!

Isn't travelling the most wonderful thing in the world - other than getting married to the person you adore and giving birth to healthy, gorgeous children?! Yes, the experience is something that we take to our grave and that nobody or nothing can take away from us.

I'm just riding on a bus to work where part of my job is to upload Eastern European travel packages to our website, http://www.firstclass.com.au/. So at present I have the next best thing to actually travelling, is to write and daydream about it!:)

Last time I travelled to Hungary was in January 2006 with my husband Derek, our 14 months old baby girl and was 4 months pregnant with my baby boy. It was the coldest winter I had ever experienced. Some days it was -18degree celsius and due to snow storms and roads freezing over we had to shuffle our trip itenirary around quite a bit. So from Budapest we drove first to Pécs instead of visiting my relatives in Nyirtelek. Well the drive was quite scary not because of Derek's driving skills - he did really well on the left hand side - but because of people not really keeping to any speed limits!

So at Pécs we visited my best friend Andrea who just moved back to Hungary after migrating to Australia in the early 80's. Andi was living with her beautiful grandmother at the time but since purchased the most gorgeous apartment in the heart of Pécs. For those of you that don't know Pécs, it is Hungary's capital of the Arts and has also been selected as European Capital of Culture in 2010. The city centre also has an early Christian necropolis that is World Heritage listed. Pécs always offers something artistically special like the critically acclaimed yearly national theater festival (POSZT). The city is constantly buzzing with live bands, open air theatres, ballets, markets and wine festivals. Even in the harshest of winters where snow covered the rooftops of monumental buildings, and churches, the city had a lovely cosy feel to it.

Sorry everyone I will continue very very soon as my little ones just woke up, have to run!