We woke with one goal: go to the public baths! Budapest has many of them from the Ottoman times. We chose the big bath in City Park, which was probably half tourists and half locals.
First, coffee. Everything is cheap here, so we splurged on a delicious and I got some pressed juice for a couple bucks (I refuse to pay 7 bucks for such a thing in the States. I still don't get the fascination with this product. It's just juice, people. Like the Juicy Juice your mom used to give you. Sorta.). Because I'm technically a millennial I post photos of food:
Then, the baths. The place we went is the biggest and most popular. You queue up, pay a fee (we went big and bought a special locker and each got a 60-minute massage), then you sit in all the different baths. There's a big outdoor section with pools of different temperatures, and many indoor pools, ranging from cold to hot, and saunas. I gotta say, it was fun. It's like an amusement park for adults. We easily spent 4 hours just lounging around. There were lots of pasty Brits around.
We also paid for these stupid green robes that nobody has except the suckers who pay for the extra stuff.
With only a few hours to spare, we got an uber to the Buda side of the Danube, where we went to the Citadel, a military structure with cool views. We ate some delicious concoction of ice cream, chocolate, cinnamon pastry, and whipped cream.
We ate at a somewhat fancy restaurant in a hotel - our crack at getting traditional Hungarian food. It was an old school place and hit the spot.
The day's last order of business was to go on a 60-minute night cruise on the Danube. I thought it was going to be cheesy but was pretty cool. It's an impressive city at night.
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