Budapest diaries
Saba Jalali
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Discovering the heart of Eastern Europe,one place at a time. Read up for travelling tips and unfiltered advice
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Happy New year!
2018. We're so old man, can you believe it? we're aging so fast. I know that's not what anyone wants to hear when a new year is about to approach but I am the master of bursting one's bubble. Happy new year you guys, this is just a really short post to thank you all for...
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Where to go shopping in Budapest: West End
Well another day, another shopping adventure. Like I mentioned before the shopping centers here don't really impress me. it's mostly about going there for buy some essentials or basically have some food or coffee. It's not as entertaining as our shopping sprees in...
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Winter Activities: ice skating.
Winter wonderland kind of things. As you all know I'm definitely not the biggest fan of winter as a season. I mean, come on, excruciating cold, having to wear 120 layers on top of each other, not being able to go out constantly and, on top of everything, shivering 24/7...
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Local food to try: Langos
Hey guys so this is going to be a super short entry, I just want to talk about this Hungarian food that we have here and it's kind of famous so let's see what's it all about. So last night when we were coming back from our New Year's celebration, we stumbled across this...
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How to travel from Budapest to Vienna?
The single greatest thing about Europe is that with a valid schengen visa you have the opportunity to travel to 27 different countries one after the other. I mean, how great is that? to be able to roam around this beautiful continent easily and be able to discover all...
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Cafe hopping: Big Ben tea house
Before I start this is the address of the tea house: Budapest, Veres Pálné u. 10, 1053 Okay so this is going to be a really short entry but I'm going to describe one of my favorite places ever in all of Budapest and so stay woke you guys and make sure you go to...
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Budapest Central market hall
Ever since I stepped into Budapest I've been wanting to go and visit the central market hall of Budapest, I have this thing for Bazaars, I crave them, like the first thing I look for when I search for a place is if they have a bazaar or flee markets. So ever since we...
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Cafe hopping: Magveto cafe
Recently I guess I have joined the cafe hoppers bandwagon and man I do not regret it for one second even, I love constantly going to different cafes , having great conversations while sipping on a cup of tea or coffee, I mean what's more peaceful than that? And one of...
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Cafe hopping: Massolit books and cafe
All of these cafe hopping pieces was just to prepare you guys for the real deal, I was just preping you guys for this amazing cafe, hands down one of my favorite places in Budapest, you would know if you actually followed me on instagram, I have been killing my...
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Thrift shopping in Budapest
Well before I moved to Europe I have never ever thrift shopped in my entire life, I don't know we just don't have the culture back where I come from. Well first of all, I mean back in Malaysia, clothes are kinda cheap and imported from China so it doesn't make much...
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Why should you do your Erasmus in Budapest?
Okay well I have been getting this question over and over again, from friends or colleagues back home or in different countries and the truth is I consider Budapest an ideal place to go any exchange programs. I mean Budapest is sort of a heaven for me and for so many...
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Which clubs to party in Budapest?
I'm trying to slowly reveal my party animal just so you guys would be prepared... Jokes, I'm actually not a party animal at all, I'm so vanilla. But every vanilla needs to experience some craziness once in a while. I don't know where I'm going with this so let me spare...
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The best bars for Erasmus students in Budapest
Bar hopping or pub crawling is a lifestyle here in Europe or anywhere else in the world for that matter. I mean who doesn't like the night life? Being able to go from bar to bar having cold tasty drinks, laughing your ass off while being drunk under the city lights and...
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Shisha bar: Kelet Csillaga Kávé-és Teaház Shisha Cafe
Yes, I am aware of the super long name of this place but just bear with it, it's just coffee and tea house, plus shisha, but it's in Hungarian so it is just as confusing. Ever since I moved to Europe I didn't get a chance to smoke any shisha, I mean shisha was a sort of...
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Bagel heaven right here in Budapest
Okay well this is another extremely small piece to introduce another cute little place before I start to shift my focus to Iran for sometime, I really miss writing about Iran and given there are still a billion places to discover back there, I think I need to spend some...
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Best burger in Budapest
Okay so yes I know I have been MIA for the longest time and I'm sorry truly, I have so much content to be written but I get no time to write and edit them; Medical school is truly the death of me. Anyways I also wrote this whole piece but I forgot to save it and my...
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Darband Persian restaurant
Well I'm always super critical of the persian restaurants I go to outside of Iran, mostly because well none of them can be as good as the ones inside of iran and I don't know I usually turn out to be disappointed as hell with it. So I have been quite reluctant to go to...
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Don't have Mac Donalds in Budapest!
I mean you'd think the fact that Mac Donalds is a multinational blood sucking corporation which serves complete junk food to millions of people and is responsible for America's obesity problem (exaggeration) is a good enough reason for me to never have it again but...
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Cafe hopping: Mandarin cafe
Okay the name of this place is completely irrelevant to the place and I have no idea why they would call it mandarin cafe when it has absolutely nothing to do with anything chinese nor has it any chinese food in it's menu. I think the owners of the place just liked the...
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Sights to see around Budapest
I have been living here for the past 7 months and I am sure we all can agree that Budapest is majestic; it is beyond beautiful and it's almost impossible for your breath to not be taken away at the sights this city has to offer. I moved here and within days my mind was...
