The building is made out of almost only Hungarian materials (and remember it was built a long time ago, this can't have been easy). The only things that don't belong are the 8 marble Pillars in the entrance way which come from Greece and some little marble pillars which are from Italy. The interior is dusted with gold form the walls to the top of the highest ceilings. The stain windows were taken out during WW1 and kept safe in the basement, they were then returned to their original place but unfortunately when some bombs hit in WW2 most of them were destroyed. However there are a few which survived and we were able to see them in their original place. One of the other interesting and rather well thought out things about parliament is that the boilers which heat the building are situated in another building completely separate from parliament to protect it from any fires or anything like this that could harm the building. They say that the building is pretty much unbeatable, it will stand forever along the Duna.
The crown jewels! Yes I know they are hard to see but we were not allowed to take photos with the flash on as it damages them.
After this we visited a Humus Bar to die for. It cost me 600FT for my pita which is about $3.25. Mhmmm this is what we are talking about people, good cheap cheeeap food!
After this we visited Hero Square. Unfortunately I can't give you much info on this one as I don't know a lot myself other then it is famous and we were to go there. Ops maybe I should have looked it up before going! But what I can tell you is it is beautiful.
After this Alyssa and I went to an art museum which had an exhibition on titled "What is Hungarian". Topical right? It was pretty cool seeing how Hungarians looked at their own culture and what they thought made them Hungarian. There was also a few things that were questionable - R18 - one video was of a man who got up on a train and went to the bathroom, yes we saw it all, and he took a long time to do his business and we saw it for a long time. But the reason for this was apparently this dude has some OCD thing and he feels the need to jump on a train and do his thang at the exact time he goes over the Hungarian-Serbian boarder (if Stefan is reading this don't be pissed at me it is just what I saw, I am sure Serbia is a lovely lovely place). Odd. I then went shopping. I hadn't really brought a lot and it is a week in so I think I have that up my sleeve as an excuse for my wee shopping binge. But boy *sigh was it good. Check out what I got.
Tomorrow we shall be visiting the Terror house and not much else is really open, so I am hoping that we might get to a flea market in the morning but that starts at 7am, ha we will see about that!
For now farewell and good evening to all!
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