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Your heart is made of solid stone if you don’t fall in love with Prague. I mean Jesus fucking Christ we thought we had seen it all by now.

One of our favorite things we have done in eaxh city was to take a random tram and just… go. It’s beyond the touristy areas you start seeing some real city and urban life. Every city has had unique things to see while on a random team ride. If we had more time we would do more of it!

Oh my my my Prague all my exhaustion has just vanished. A photographers delight you are!

> The Klementinum Library has been consistently voted as one of the most beautiful libraries in the entire world and it’s well worth seeing in Prague!

Plans have been made! I am so excited about it already.

The hotel checkin at this so called 5 star hotel in Prague was so horrible I want to move out almost immediately. Before the trip the two families specifically asked for rooms together and upon checkin were told, oh, they are on same floors and we never saw your request. I was like WTF – it was already 11:30 at night after an exhausting day so we’re ok, and then we find that the hotel uses same numbers for different floors (5a, 5b, 5c) which is truly bizarre and our friends are now floors above us.

Next up, in spite of telling them we are a family of three there was no bed or bedding for the kid! After going back to reception about it they were like oh we thought it was there. Then the lone reception guy threw so much attitude at us to bring us some bedding that we only setup coz it was clear they were so inconvenienced. What a nightmare checkin for a supposedly 5 star hotel.

The AC has its own issues too. By the time I slept it was almost 3. I am already ready to fly back lol!

And finally to the last leg of the tour, a new city. We are all exhausted at this point and all of us felt that this was one stop too many maybe and we should have ended at Budapest, but oh well now that we are here we will make the best of it! Don’t disappoint, Prague!

It is not as obvious as vienna perhaps but Budapest public transport connectivity within the main areas is actually very impressive with underground subway, trams, trains and bus service all operating in unison, makes getting from one place to another super easy.

The stunning Hungarian parliament as taken from the boat tour.

The Hungarian parliament building is absolutely stunning. No pictures can do justice to seeing it in person. Ooof!

I have to admit when we pulled into Budapest and checked into our hotel I was not impressed, especially after doing Vienna prior. But as we have spent the day exploring the city and roaming around, the city is beginning to grow on me. While Vienna is outrageous grandeur, Budapest definitely has a old world character of its own, and especially seems to come alive at night. The people seem more, not sure how to say it, but more *regular*. Also surprised at the immense food diversity here. Looking forward to next couple of days of exploring!