I spent a week in Budapest to follow up on last year’s first visit. This time around, I had enough time to walk around the city and explore more. I stayed in the city center, an area crawling with ex-pats, digital nomads, and short-term vacationers. I wasn’t able to get as much of a local feel for how the city operates outside of these influences as I would have liked — my own fault. Next time I hope to spend more time, and outside of this vacationer bubble. I did manage to escape during a rainy weekend outside of the city to an Airbnb in the town of Pécs, which was the perfect weekend hideaway from the storm of cold, wind, and rain. Another highlight of Budapest this time around was my visit to a locally famous bodybuilding gym, which is apparently often frequented by Hollywood movie stars who spend time filming in Budapest. I didn’t see any, but there were a lot of pictures on the wall of them with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who seems to have some sort of association with the gym—there was a metal statue of a Terminator robot in the gym’s lobby. AS visiting local gyms […]
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Budapest is one of those cities that has been in my travel queue for too long. Though I spend plenty of time in Europe each year, it was never convenient to squeeze it into my itinerary. I did finally manage to make a ten day reconnaissance trip to scout it out for the first time to see if it’s the type of place I could and should stay for longer. My friend Will, who also is location independent and works remotely, was in Budapest and had encouraged me to visit while he was there. Like I’ve said previously, I rarely turn down an invitation. I took the opportunity to see that I was finally fated to visit Budapest for the first time, and embraced it. Will recommended a gym to me to use while I was visiting that was a fifteen minute walk from my Airbnb apartment. My daily routine involved going there in the morning, stopping at the grocery store on the way home, and then working all day before falling asleep, or meeting Will for dinner (if it was the weekend). Unfortunately I was working a lot during my time visiting Budapest and wasn’t able to explore the […]
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