
Hungary - Budapest
On Easter 2017 instead of going to Poland, we decided to go to Hungary to see Budapest and Balaton surroundings. From Munich it's about 7 hours drive, but it took us a little more because of huge queues in gas stations to buy Hungarian Vignette. We arrived about 4 in the afternoon, and immediately, went for sightseeing. We didn't have any precise plan how to sightsee Budapest, just some points on map. We've spent 3 days in Budapest, and last day near Balaton.
Budapest (wiki) Capital and biggest city of Hungary. First settlement in this place was from 4th century BC Celtic Aquincum, that became roman, bulgarian, and finally hungarian tribes conquered it. City was officially created 17 November 1873 from Buda, Obuda and Pest.
We had quite short trip - only 4 days with going there and back to Munich, and we were not able to see everything that we wanted. But even with such limited time, I believe we were able to see most of major places in Budapest. Hungary looks like modern country, that is changing a lot. Before trip I was informed that foreign languages might be a problem, but we found that english and german are popular languages, especially among young people. We also learned that at least close to Balaton lake there is problem with using cards to pay - ATMs are only in bigger towns, and even in our hotel they didn't accept cards, although in many places they accept EUR, but not coins, and in return they give Forints. Overall Hungary is beautiful country, with prices that are still good, and great wine.