Trip

We finally took the first step towards our planned European trip. As I mentioned it before my cousin and I are planning a trip next year back to the Old Country.

I was there in 2008 the last time and back then the trip was pretty simple. There were non stop flights between New York and Budapest and we always took advantage of that. However, in 2012 Malev Hungarian Airlines went into bankruptcy and dissolve itself. Thus all non stop flights stopped existing. Now it is a little more complicated since it is necessary to change plane in some European city.

We decided that since neither of us have seen much of Europe we would find an economical (meaning cheap) flight and wherever we change plane we would spend a few days before continuing on to Budapest. Well, that's the plan but we didn't settle on any particular location yet.

Since our trip is planned for the end of May 2015 it is too early to buy our tickets just yet.

But we already reserved our place to stay in Budapest. Being two grown up men we really don't want to sleep ion the same bed and we didn't even want to sleep in the same room. We are all passed middle age (not by much) and we both have our bad habits that better stay private. So we found a (hopefully) nice two bedroom place with available parking in a nice part of Budapest. At least it sounds nice in their advertisement.

With this reservation we made the first serious commitment.

I told my cousin that we would have to go to some kind of a training camp to get in shape as far as being able to eat the good food we are hoping to find. It is not that easy to look at the menus over there and see that every single thing on them is a favorite. How does a person select in such case?

It is like being led into a harem and told that chose any one of the beautiful women. But only one!

This statement right now is academic but I just mentioned for comparison.

But like I wrote yesterday, I probably would still chose solet!