Budapest, Hungary

So this adventure starts out not in Budapest, but in Szekesfehervar. Try saying that at all, let alone three times fast. That's my roommate's hometown where I met him at roughly 11am in the morning following my midnight departure from Prague. He met me at the train station and we drove to his house where I dropped off my stuff before we made our way out to lunch at a very nice restaurant. We then walked around the downtown area and he gave brief history of the town and its history as a former seat of the kingdom. Then came possibly my favorite part of my 5-week adventure.
We went to the Turkish bath in town and spent roughly 3 hours there for roughly $10. I enjoyed all the pools as well as two trips to the sauna and one to the outdoor steam room. I haven't been that clean for weeks and certainly not as relaxed. After the baths we made our way back to his house where I got to meet his parents, and joined them for an amazing dinner of guess what? That's right: more sausage! After dinner we went out to the mall in town and watched the Chelsea-Barcelona football match where Chelsea held on to a one goal lead from the first half. By the end of the game I was exhausted and got a great night's sleep when we got back.
The next day we woke up (a little later than planned) and had a traditional Hungarian breakfast before making our way to Budapest by train. We dropped our things off at his sister's apartment in town and left to explore the city. We crossed the Chain Bridge towards the Buda side of town and walked up to the Palace and then down to the Fisherman's Bastion for a great view of the Parliament. We then made our way back to the main train station to meet up with two of the Canadians who I had met in Prague. We escorted them to their hostel, not without some difficulty, and I stayed with them while my roommate went to a meeting he had in the city. After they settled in we went for dinner at a surprisingly good and cheap Mexican restaurant and walked around town, making it back down to the Chain Bridge and getting a great view of the river by night. We met my roommate and made our way to a bar everyone had gone to where we declined to pay to get in, and instead went to a free one a few blocks down. Around midnight we all made our way home and once again, slept in a little later than anticipated.
We met up the next day at Hero's Square and walked around the city park that had been built for the World Exhibition of 1912. We walked down the boulevard that was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site and stopped by the museum of terror which featured a piece of the Berlin Wall. We took the underground to Parliament and from there walked down to the Grand Market for lunch. We walked towards the National Museum where we bid the Canadians farewell as they headed off to go caving with a group from their hostel. My roommate and I continued on to the second largest synagogue in the world and the main basilica in town before heading back to his apartment to pick up our things. We managed to make some quick connections and I made it onto a train to Austria where as I'm writing this I'm trying to figure out the next connection to make it to West Germany by morning.