1) The old Pest side of the city has the castle with almost a dozen different museums. If you're museum minded you can spend a day there easily.
2) If you feel like something different, check out Statue Park, which is just outside Budapest. It's where they took all the old communist statues that used to dot the city. Very cool stuff. Warning: it's about a 20 minute tram ride from the center to the south part of the city, then you have to take a bus 20 minutes out. You may have some language troubles at the bus station, but it's worth the effort.
Buy the Lonely Planet book on Budapest. It's worth it for the restaurant recommendations (fairly decent), maps, and dictionary.
No. English is the most widely-spoken "other" language there. Hungarian is quite interesting because it's origins are only barely traceable to Estonian and Finnish.
Get used to the metro & the trams because they're cheap and go along all the most popular routes. Hire a cab, though, for the airport trip. ALWAYS buy a ticket on the public transportation systems; you'll go through ticket checkpoint on the metro roughly 40% of the time. They WILL catch you if you try to "ride black".
I just got back from 8 months in europe of traveling...I spend about a month of that in Sarajevo. You wont get much help in the lines of people speaking english there. It's an amazing city with something magical you can just feel in the air about the culture and people. So much history happend there quite recently, and you can still see that they're trying to repair that. Check out the fresh food markets, and if you go out to eat, have a cevapcici...they're so good *if u eat meat*. I went with a young man that I met in america who grew up there, so the language thing wasnt a problem for me. I just couldnt talk to anyone, but him! As for dubrovnik, it's amazing as well. Croatia is gorgeous the more coastal you get. I would recommend Split (if you have time). Make sure you get to walk in the walls that enclose the old part of the city...the walls close at 3pm though! Have the time of your life, I would love to hear how you liked it there~
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1) The old Pest side of the city has the castle with almost a dozen different museums. If you're museum minded you can spend a day there easily.
2) If you feel like something different, check out Statue Park, which is just outside Budapest. It's where they took all the old communist statues that used to dot the city. Very cool stuff. Warning: it's about a 20 minute tram ride from the center to the south part of the city, then you have to take a bus 20 minutes out. You may have some language troubles at the bus station, but it's worth the effort.
Buy the Lonely Planet book on Budapest. It's worth it for the restaurant recommendations (fairly decent), maps, and dictionary.
Have fun. Budapest is one of my favorites!
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That second suggestion is really intriguing me actually, I might do it, despite the language barriers, as I'm feeling adventurous.
..by the way do you know if any languages other than english might help me, ie. italian, french or serbo-croatian?
And I will look for that book.
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Get used to the metro & the trams because they're cheap and go along all the most popular routes. Hire a cab, though, for the airport trip. ALWAYS buy a ticket on the public transportation systems; you'll go through ticket checkpoint on the metro roughly 40% of the time. They WILL catch you if you try to "ride black".
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
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