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Year Abroad: Pilatus Golden Round Trip | iamapolarbear.com

Posted on February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 by Julie

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Because I spent my first two days hopping between

Because I spent my first two days hopping between thermal baths, I didn’t actually get to see Budapest by daylight properly until my third full day. In the meantime, I’d seen the river views by purple twilight and the dark and walked a couple of kilometres home at half past midnight… and done a boat trip! I love a boat trip and in Budapest, it’s almost compulsory. Book in advance, though - the days are pretty much gone when you can turn up and buy a ticket ten minutes before departure, which takes a certain amount of spontaneity out of travel. #budapest #danube #danubeboatcruise #budapestbynight

A capital city isn’t really a capital city unles

A capital city isn’t really a capital city unless it’s got a big wheel. I discovered Budapest’s very early on but it took until my penultimate night to go for a ride on it. It reminded me that I hate the bit when the cabin swings over the top but the views are brilliant. I’d seen Budapest from above by daylight from the balloon and now I was seeing the city lights from the wheel! #budapest #viewingwheel #budapestbynight

Last morning of the trip but far from the last pic

Last morning of the trip but far from the last pictures! Hiding on peaceful Margrit-sziget is the Palatinus Baths complex. In winter, most of the many large outdoor pools are closed but I appreciated the novelty of sitting outside in the sun in November. Back inside, there’s a reasonably large thermal pool and a little hot plunge pool - I’m actually a little redder in real life than even in that picture! I immediately followed it with the cold plunge pool opposite and then ran back to the nice thermal pool to warm up and cool down simultaneously. #palatinus #budapest #thermalbath

As I walked back from the Róth Museum the long wa

As I walked back from the Róth Museum the long way (and in the opposite direction from home) I stumbled across a brilliant sunset at the main station, so I flew down to Parliament as fast as I could, just in time to catch these glorious colours over the Fisherman’s Bastion. #sunset #budapest #fishermansbastion

One of the things that went on my Budapest to-do l

One of the things that went on my Budapest to-do list very early on was the Róth Museum. Miksa Róth was a stained glass artist and mosaicist whose work appears in many an important building in Budapest and beyond and since I love stained glass, of course I went to his museum! It’s set up to show how the apartments would have been when he was living and working there which is of a lot less interest to me than the stained glass but what relatively little there was inspired me in various ways and I fell utterly in love with St Bartholomew here. He’s one of a set but far and away my favourite - look at his face! #stainedglass #rothmiksa #glassart

Now, here’s a bit of a Budapest hidden gem. Pest

Now, here’s a bit of a Budapest hidden gem. Pesterzsébeti Baths is a bus ride out of the city centre, alongside the canal that breaks off the Danube just to the south and it combines a nice modern relax pool, two small outdoor thermal pools and an outdoor lane pool with a traditional-style domed dimly-lit octagonal thermal pool and (slightly radioactive!) iodine-salt bath (currently just plain thermal water because there’s a problem with the iodine-salt well) with an almost complete lack of tourists. If you want to take a thermal bath like a local, this is the place to come. #thermalbath #budapest #hotwater #pesterzsebetigyógyfürdő

Budapest has so many baths to choose from, so here

Budapest has so many baths to choose from, so here’s another. Lúkacz Baths is an absolute labyrinth and has two swimming pools and a thermal pool hiding outside in banana-yellow courtyards, plus the usual assortment of dark be-domed indoor thermal hot pools, saunas and medical facilities plus a beer bath. I don’t drink beer but between the one here, at Széchenyi and in northern Iceland I’m starting to feel the pressure to try out bathing in it. #thermalbath #lukacsbath #budapest #outdoorpool

European Pretty Tree Season comes a month or two l

European Pretty Tree Season comes a month or two later than its North American counterpart but I reckon Budapest, and specifically Margit-sziget, is a great place to catch it. #trees #autumnleaves #yellowtrees #margitsziget #budapest

Margit-sziget, Margaret Island, is the sort of pla

Margit-sziget, Margaret Island, is the sort of place you can pop a camera into the fork of a tree and it’s also the sort of place where you can do that without anyone catching you - unusual in a big city. #selfies #treetripod #trees

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