We had the most amazing experience celebrating a traditional Hungarian Easter with two very lovely, warm, friendly families in the little town of Eger with our friends Daniel and Tamas. When we arrived at Daniel's family's house (an immaculately decorated traditional home) we were greeted with Palinka, Jagermeister (in the morning!), cheese, bread and puffs (it's a Hungarian thing). The celebrations started off with a 2 hour long, 4 course meal. The first three ...

The thing that surprised us the most about Budapest was the number of immensely impressive buildings, the city was full of huge Baroque, Gothic and Turkish style churches, palaces, baths, cathedrals, operas and more. While we were in Budapest the streets were buzzing with Easter anticipation and we even got to go to lamb festival which seemed to be just more of an excuse to eat, drink and be merry amongst old castles. We met up with some friends of Sonja's whil...