Day 2

While walking around in the morning we found a pastry shop that had burek. Burek is one of our new favorite Serbian/Slovakian/Armenian things to eat. We discovered this when a friend of ours who is Yugoslavian brought some to our house. We then found the store in Malmö and set out for our own one day. It's a phyllo dough made into tubes and stuffed with either meat, spinach, or cheese. This shop also happened to have cherry and apple ones. So we grabbed a meat, spinach, and cheese one, found a bench in the sun, and preceded to enjoy the flaky, buttery, salty goodness of the burek.

 

When we got back to the hotel, we found this girl!!

Christine is actually the reason we came. She had a conference in Budapest, and we figured since it was so close and so cheap, we'd be crazy to miss a chance at exploring a new city and seeing our bestie. After we met up we spent the morning walking around the open air market and collecting some souvenirs. I'm sure if you're one of the people that reads both our blogs you'll get some overlap in pictures, but it will be worth it!

 

 

We were constantly amazed at the architecture. All the buildings were so incredibly ornate and beautiful. Spring had certainly sprung in Budapest and you could tell. Even I was only wearing one layer on my legs and a simple jacket, you know it must have been nice out! We met some really friendly and helpful people along the way. I always think that other people won't know where Tennessee is, so when they ask where I'm from, I always say the US. Then they ask where, and I say Tennessee. In the case of the one market we were in, the guy said, "Jack Daniels!" So thank you Jack for making it easy for me to say I'm from Tennessee.

 

 

 

 

At lunch time, we found a sidewalk cafe, and snagged a table in the sun. The food wasn't great, but who could beat lunch in the sun with good friends in a new city?

 

 

 

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