By: Shoubhik Bose & Debanjana Maitra
Shoubhik and Debanjana, senior engineers in software companies of repute in Bangalore love travelling in India and abroad. They take time out to share their experiences through their travelogues.
Budapest, Hungary
The journey to Budapest was a 6 hour journey by Austria’s OBB railway network.
Day 1
It took us a while to accept that this is where we would be staying.
A typical evening in Budapest is full of music performances at every street corner. There are plenty of public spaces and parts where people get food and beverages for a tiny ad-hoc picnic.
Day 2
“ The Gellért Baths complex includes thermal baths, which are small pools containing water from Gellért hill’s mineral hot springs. The water contains calcium, magnesium, hydrocarbonate, alkalis, chloride, sulfate and fluoride.
Budapest is a unique city in more than one ways. For those who love spa and wellness, it is unique for being the only large city in the world, which abounds in fountains of healing water. 70 million liters of 21–78 Celsius warm thermal water spring forth daily from its 118 natural thermal springs.”
We spent almost an entire half of the day at the bath dipping in naturally heated pools ( a total of 8 baths are accessible to the public ) of various temperatures ranging from 34 degrees to 40 degrees.
At 3 in the night we took a cab to the airport to catch our flight to Bangalore via Berlin — for the first time during the entire trip did we see people partying all night, and young men and women roaming around in public spaces at midnight in well lit streets. Budapest surely doesn’t need to reclaim its public spaces — it has them all.
