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Budapest -- The List

Quick factoids.
-- Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with the unification on
November 17, 1873, of right-bank (west) Buda and Óbuda (Old Buda) together with Pest on the left bank
-- Ancestral people -> Magyars (mug-Jars)

The adventures of Darkfyre and the goat-boy

Tuesday, 7/22

Castle Hill -- The old city fort of Buda.

Wednesday, 7/23

Indoor market -- Huge where you can get everything including lace, wood toys, seriously fresh produce
LIVE fish, plus a side of Beef
National Museum -- Interesting enough in a very museum sort of way
Gellert Baths -- OMG I love european baths!

Thursday, 7/24

City Park -- Nice big park with lots of open green space and random museums
Plus a replica of a castle
Heroes' Square
Museum of Fine Arts tasty fun! Though we skipped the art hall across the way (It took me until Vienna
to get into full out museum mode, so I had no stamina)
Saint Elizabeth's -- neat little church that was marked WRONG on our map!
Andrassy Utca -- Major throrough fare through the center of town. Think Champs de Elysees
without the eiffel tower

Friday, 7/25

Castle Hill round 2
Hall of Defense -- neat wanderings
The Labyrinth -- series of caves under the hill. About half was actually man made catacombs sans
dead bodies
National Gallery -- More arty fun, though the guide book was right, there is a reason you haven't
heard of half these Hungarian artists of display
Synagogue Memorial
House of Hungarian Photographers -- VERY cool contemporary gallery

Saturday, 7/26

Szentendre -- day trip up the Danube Bend

Sunday, 7/27

Eger -- Medium sized semi-touristy city East of Budapest


More to come soonish.

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Ugh post massage toxic purge

Got a much needed overdue massage yesterday.
I really need to keep up with these so that maybe occasionally I can have one that is relaxing and spa like. Instead of a chiropractic adjustment. I have a serious love-hate thing going on here. Since I retain most of my stress physically I need to get a massage at least every two weeks to stay healthy and pain free. Every week is better. Since it has been more than a month most of the session was spent on my shoulders and upper back. My massage therapist is quite skilled in releasing stress and realigning my neck. It is usually closer to sport or deep massage than relaxing Swedish.
The consequence of all this is a rather uncomfortable massage followed by 24 hours of feeling icky because releasing the muscles also means releaseing a painful number of toxins into my system. And I am never, it seems, hydrated enough to purge them rapidly.

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"Do not fight with idiots, they will only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"