{"id":367,"date":"2005-07-21T23:11:18","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2005-07-21T23:11:18","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T23:11:18","slug":"a-day-in-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/2005\/a-day-in-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/Budapest.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/Budapest.html','popup','width=486,height=648,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/Budapest-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"25\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>Yesterday, I spent the day in Budapest. It was quite a fun change of atmosphere from sitting around in my apartment all day. It takes a little under three hours to drive there. I hadn&#8217;t been there since 1994, and it has changed a lot. If you ignore the difference in language, Budapest isn&#8217;t all that different from Vienna anymore. It has really modernized.<br \/>\nDriving there went pretty well. I found out I had to buy a &#128;7 vignette for four days, which is the shortest one, to use the highways. In total I exchanged &#128;23, which I easily used up, especially since my appetite is back stronger than ever. I first stopped at a Subway, and ate a 12-inch sub meal. Then I found my way to the &#8220;Citadel&#8221; hill, where I had also been with my parents eleven years ago. They tried to extort an entrance fee for the actual structure, which I didn&#8217;t want to go into anyway. I ended up taking a lower path around this area, and found my way to the scenic view point without paying. After this I bought some stuff at a supermarket, and then walked along the Danube for a bit and then found the main shopping street. I then ate at Burger King (I&#8217;m horrible), after which I tried driving home. I took a wrong turn, which led me across a bridge that I should have crossed the opposite direction, because it would have led me home. I noticed this and tried to find some way to turn around, but, like Vienna, this is pretty hard, because the main entrance\/exit roads don&#8217;t allow any turns.<br \/>\nSo I ended up wasting another 45 minutes or so getting lost in communist-built ghettos. I then eventually got on a semi-highway, which eventually led me to the right highway a couple of miles outside the city. I got home around nine.<br \/>\nThe photos can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/photos\/summer2005-budapest\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent the day in Budapest. It was quite a fun change of atmosphere from sitting around in my apartment all day. It takes a little under three hours to drive there. I hadn&#8217;t been there since 1994, and it has changed a lot. If you ignore the difference in language, Budapest isn&#8217;t all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,196],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel","tag-budapest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}