Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Along came the friends

As you all know we came down in August and our first visitor was Hilde. Gareth and Jack went back to the UK for the weekend and I stayed behind entertaining my good old friend. We had a really nice girlie weekend and although it was October enjoyed some nice warm weather.After Hilde there was Beate she came down for my Birthday weekend and we enjoyed Budapest SPA in late November outside. It was so weird being outside in our costumes and it was snowing and steam was coming up from the thermal waters which hold a temperature of 30 degrees all year round, apparently the SPA water is so hot when it comes from underneath the earth surface it has to be cooled down. We also went for a Thai massage which was somewhat interesting. I thought it was supposed to be nice.......Me and Beate were in pain for days, but somehow we managed to still go shopping and Beate but a whole new concept to spending money "Good, on you girl". And then there was Victoria just nearly as spontaneous as me. I spoke to her on the Wednesday and I think she was her the next day. Again we had a great weekend with sightseeing and we even made it in for the Van Gogh exhibition. Later in February my brother TM and his girlfriend Camilla came for a week and they travelled over to both Vienna and Bratislava and we all had a fab time at the Spa again as my friend Sarah made it from the UK during the same week. Me and Sarah went to the Inter Continental for a 5 hour brunch and we saw Budapest in a whole different light...... Then we had peace for some weeks and the visitors started again with Beate and Hilde that had such a good time that they came back for more. We had such a lovely girlie weekend all three of us and I think it was the first time only the three of us was together. Closely followed Janine who came for a long weekend and she got introduced to all the splendid Budapest bars, Szimpla being favoured the best. Only days after Janine's departure came Peter and Sheelagh (Gareths parents) which stayed with us for 6 days. The weather was gorgeous and we enjoyed some great sightseeing. And then Catharina and Rune came for a long weekend and I think we all overspent dramatically that weekend, but it was so worth it, the weather was gorgeous and we made it to the SPA again......And we all went to Inter Continental for the famous brunch. It was a really nice weekend.





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