The Great Market Hall

Our last day in Budapest was spent at the Great Market Hall.

This is one of the largest in door markets in Europe and has

absolutley anything you would like to buy to remember your time 

in Hungary.  The main floor is filled with stalls selling produce, spices,

candies and dried meats.  The second floor is filled with traditional

Hungarian handicrafts, and the basement is the local fish and meat market..

we did not visit the basement...  A visit to the market is worth it just to see

the beautiful building it is housed in.

We spent a good half day here, it was fun to see

all the different kinds of produce and spices on the main

floor and we had a great time looking through all the handicrafts

on the second floor and we each left with a few fun souvenirs,

Hungary is well known for it's 

paprika, so there were stalls and stalls 

selling cute containers of the famous spice

The painted eggs were the thing that I was looking forward

to seeing the most.  Our mom read us children's book

about these gorgeous eggs, so I feel like they are a part of my

childhood.  These real eggs were GORGEOUS and amazingly 

intricate.  As much as I wanted to get some, I was too nervous about

getting them back home.  So I got some wooden eggs 

that have more traditional painting on them.

Then it was time to bid adieu to this amazing 

city and set sail towards Slovakia.

We had the most amazing views of the parliament

building as we sailed passed.

Budapest was such an interesting 

and beautiful place to see, and there is still

so much that I would like to go and see there. 

I hope to make it back one day!