A walk through Buda

Since today was my first day that I actually felt like an alive and functioning person, I decided to do a solo adventure. I took the Metra (aka subway) across (more like under) the river to the Buda side of Budapest.

The escalator down to the Metra is literally the steepest escalator I've ever seen in my life. You get vertigo just riding on it. It takes 2 minutes to get as far underground as the Metra is, and I heard that it was built that way under Communism to be used as a bomb shelter. 

Budapest also has a tram system. They are rail cars on the streets attached to these electric wires. I haven't been on one yet, but they look cool. The only down side is, the wires get in the way of taking photos of cool buildings, like this:

However, when a tram does drive by, it's kind of an interesting juxtaposition between past and present. 

There's a lot of graffiti in the city, especially on phone booths.

A creepy statue in a kid's playground. A little creepier than me being in a kid's playground with a camera. But hey, I was there to see a free photo exhibition of students' work from around the Roma area. It was interesting because the photos were good but they were printed on paper and put behind plastic at a construction site. Some of them were really pixelated and disappointing, hence, not worth showing. :(

I then ate lunch at a place called Cafe Miro that was inspired by, not suprisingly, the Catalan painter Miro. It was really delicious. I had this huge soup with bread (white bread - I don't know yet if wheat bread exists over here) and it was only 790 forints, or $4.24.

Zellers burgonyakreimleves piritott baconnal. Known in English as potato soup with celery and bacon. And grease, but they didn't say that on the menu. 

I ended up in a really residential area and there was barely anybody around. 

Beep beep.