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Popular Off the Beaten Path | Other Off the Beaten Path Tips | All Tips (437) Both Charles and I suffered shoulder problems for a few months before our trip. When getting in and out of our coats became a struggle, we decided to go for a massage.
Siam Center has eight branches in Budapest, the location we went to perhaps was the main one since it was not inside any gym or hotel. The building looked dubious from the outside but the office was presentable inside. Bamboo trees stood in large pots, light scent of incense wafted about, and soft light illuminated the small lobby.
We told the receptionist of our problems, she consulted with the master masseuse, and then explained the procedure to us. She said Thai Massage uses an acupressure and dry method, although in my case, the masseuse would need to use a balm to help ease the pain.
The massage room was divided into cubicles with curtains in between. There was a mattress set on a straw mat inside each space. Soft music was piped throughout. The atmosphere was very relaxing.
We were instructed to take off all of our clothes and replace them with the pajamas. The masseuses worked silently except the periodic inquiries about our comfort. They used their hands, wrists, arms, elbows, knees, legs, and feet to put pressure on every physiological points of our bodies. They bent us this way and that way, they pressed, stretched, pulled, and scrunched. For an hour and 10,000Ft each, they pounded our bodies until tender and limp.
The session made Charles feel completely healed, partly because it was his third massage (he had two in Amsterdam the week before), partly because his masseuse was the master one. My pain was more intense than his, this was my first massage, and my masseuse was younger, less experienced, she has yet to learn to press hard enough to reach the inner layer of the muscle. In the end, I felt much relieved but not completely rid of the discomfort.
Had we not had to leave in two days and the office was not closed during those days, I would truly want to go back one more time to have my body pounded into mush again! :) Leave a Comment
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Before and suring the WW2 the jewish habitants of Budapest had to wear a yellow star on their chest and were closed to the "pesti gettó" (Ghetto of Pest), which was the inner part of the 7th district (Area bordered by the Erzsebet korut, Rakoczi ut, Karoly korut and Kiraly utca).
This Bunker is still on the corner of Karoly korut and Dob utca and it always gives me bad feelings...
Recenty a For Sale ("Elado") sign appeared on it, hope someone will buy it and move it away. Leave a Comment
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Somewhere between the buildings of the new National Theatre and the even newer Palace of Arts, there is a spiral observation tower.
I don't particulary like the building itself, but it gives a great view also on some part of the city, but more relevantly on the 2 sorrounding buildings. Leave a Comment
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The Royal Hungarian Vocational School of Mechanics and Watchmaking was founded in 1898. It's building was made in 1900-1901 according to the plans of Gyula Partos.
The eclectic building's most impressing decorations are the glass-mosaics on the main facade and under the windws of the 1st floor. These were made in the workshop of Miksa Roth, very famous Hungarian stained glass and mosaic maker of the period.
After 5 renamings, the school is now called "Kando Kalman Muszaki Foiskola", Kando Kalman College of Electrical Engineering.
The building is in the not so elegant but soon to be revived (hopefully) area, the 8th district, under Tavaszmezo utca 15.
You can have a walk there from the Baross utca tram station (trams 4 and 6) through Horvath Mihaly ter (take the street on the left side of the church on Horvath Mihaly square). Leave a Comment
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Walking around the other night I just found out that the Chain Bridge is a paradise for citrus lovers! It offers lemon squeezers every 5 meters!
Make sure you don't leave lemon zest thrown around...and find out how to collect the juice itself...:)
Getting back to serious: check for small details on this beautiful bridge as well! Leave a Comment
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Imre Nagy was a Hungarian Prime Minister just before the uprising in 1956. He tried to introduce a less strict form of communism in Hungary (pulling away from Soviet domination).
After the crush of the uprising he was a refuge in the Yugoslavian Embassy, but later he was told to be given free passage, but on his way out he was arrested and executed 2 years later in 1958 by the communist regime. His body was exhumed and given a full state burial in 1989.
His bronze statue on Vertanuk (Martyrs) square shows him standing on a bridge, watching towards the Parliament.
Vertanuk tere is on the corner of Kossuth Lajos ter (M2 underground station), near the Parliament - corner of Nador, Vecsey and Bathory streets Leave a Comment
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The Bridge below the St. Gellert statue offers a great view of the traffic of the Erzsebet (Elisabeth) Bridge. And it's also a good place to do a panoramic shot including the Chain Bridge, the Elisabeth Bridge and the Liberty Bridge with the buildings between them on the Pest side (Hotels, Inner City Church, Economical university...). Leave a Comment
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The Tunnel under the Castle Hill is the home of Mr Janos Fazekas and his family, who is the master of the Chain Bridge.
He lives in the appartment at the entrance of the Tunnel since 40 years and he still likes his job, even though he gots lots of "funny" alarms from youngsters passing by about the lions of the Bridge running away and so on...:)
His duty is to keep the Bridge as it is, check the state of the chains and the structure and also to clean the Lions who occasionaly "receive" hats and cigars in their mouth and other strange things. Leave a Comment
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Andrássy avenue offers you an amazing variety of beautiful buildings, no wonder it is listed as a World Heritage!
You want to know more about their history, original builder/owner, stlye, etc?
Just get on the M1 underground which goes all along under the avenue and check the exposition panels in the stations which tell you more about the buildings near the actual station! Leave a Comment
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In the castle district, on the corner of Úri utca and Szentháromság utca, you can see the Statue of András Hadik on a horse.
Let 's not go into historical details about Hadik, great leader in battles in his time, just concentrate on the balls of the horse! :)
The statue itself has a greenish layer made by the time spent there, but the testicles are shiny!
Here is the clue: Students of some schools go there before exams, because touching the naughty parts of the horse means luck in their tradition. :) Leave a Comment
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