budapest

i love budapest. i often regret the day i had to leave this place and i am always nostalgic whenever i find myself back here. or even when, elsewhere in some other city, i find myself hearing hungarian or seeing images of buda.
the weekend was a bit hectic. there was a three day conference with over 65 guys from all around europe talking about different topics. i met a lot of really interesting people, some of whom i hope to run into later at future events. we had free breakfasts and lunches everyday and i took advantage of the moment to eat like a pig. then the last night, when we were all exhausted but happy, we went to szechenyi baths. it was great: 9 of us relaxing in hot thermal bath water as the sun went down, brainless and fun.
whenever i come back here, it is easy to slide back into my old buda routine, in particular as many of my friends never actually left it. and so yesterday i got up and trotted of to the university. met with one of my old professors and then settled in the library for a good 10 hours. but it was not an uninteruppted stint. periodically people would come by and ask to go for a chat....then i had lunch with gabor, kati, domogoj and ana, later a coffee with camelia, another with viktor, then vlado. finnally, the evening ended in a caffee with marci and masyamba..the weather was perfect and we sat outside, drinking nice hungarian wine.the perfect holiday...