{"id":272,"date":"2010-04-23T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/?p=272"},"modified":"2010-04-23T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T17:34:16","slug":"back-in-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/back-in-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in Budapest, on the &#8220;Pest&#8221; side of the Danube.   I&#8217;m staying in the Hotel Pilvax.  The hotel is directly across from a small grocery and a bank and my room has fast free wireless. Close to the subway, three blocks from the river, such a find!\u00a0\u00a0 Ohhhh did I mention shopping district??\u00a0 Oh my goodness.\u00a0\u00a0 I wish I wasn&#8217;t so tired.\u00a0 I just walked down but I had my heels on and came back after about 2 hours because my feet hurt!\u00a0 I really do think that everyone would love this area.\u00a0\u00a0 Two blocks down you can hear musicians, eat, shop until you drop!!!<\/p>\n<p>At the Hotel all of the people working the front desk spoke very good English and were very helpful.   Both hotel choices that I made for the center city are good ones. Safe, great locations, and comfortable.  For people staying here a month at a time, this would be a very livable location.   Below the hotel is an Irish pub that serves food until 10 pm.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Hungarian Cappuccino\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/planetlove\/4545912044\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4029\/4545912044_52c0972cd0.jpg\" alt=\"Hungarian Cappuccino\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BTW the Cappuccino&#8217;s here are the absolute best!\u00a0 Adam said that Hungary has the best in all the world! \u00a0 What do you think? \u00a0 I&#8217;ve had two now and I&#8217;m hooked!\u00a0 I so wish that Amarillo had walking areas like Europe with little cafe&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I must try some Dobos cake before I leave too.  No, I haven&#8217;t gotten my Goulash!  Maybe tonight or tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mangalitsa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-274 alignright\" title=\"Mangalitsa\" src=\"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mangalitsa-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mangalitsa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mangalitsa-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Today Adam and I stopped by a market near the US Embassy, he said it was the most famous in all of Budapest.   I took a few photos there which I&#8217;ll try to post up tonight. \u00a0   We  bought some fresh bread and some Hungarian spicy sausage to have for a little breakfast.   He told me the type of pig that\u00a0 the sausage is made from, the Mangalitsa.\u00a0 The Mangalitsa or wooly pig doesn&#8217;t contain the belly fat like other pigs, it is a much more healthy cut of meat and produces very lean meat.  He said that the sausage is more expensive.  It was seasoned with delicious paprika and I am in love with it!\u00a0 Of course, the pigs are pretty cute too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in Budapest, on the &#8220;Pest&#8221; side of the Danube. I&#8217;m staying in the Hotel Pilvax. The hotel is directly across from a small grocery and a bank and my room has fast free wireless. Close to the subway, three blocks from the river, such a find!\u00a0\u00a0 Ohhhh did I mention shopping district??\u00a0 Oh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,111,113,8,109,112,110],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-budapest","tag-cappuccino","tag-hotel-pilvax","tag-hungary","tag-mangalitsa","tag-pig","tag-sausage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}