Buda-bath

Can I tell you...about my weekend in Budapest. I was in Milan on the 2nd week of September for the work and was scheduled to go to Paris next but in between I decided to go to Hungary for the weekend. I've always wanted to go to Budapest and see the famous baths. Budapest is the only city in the world where there are more than 80 thermal springs and wells. There are about 50 baths fed by natural medicinal springs. I only made it to 2 of them. My friend Brendan, who lives in London, joined me for the adventure. The most famous and grandest one is Gellert Baths situated on the foot of Gellert Hill. Built in Art Nouveau style in 1910, it boasts of 13 indoor and outdoor pools, a wave pool, steam rooms, thermal baths and saunas.
The waters are pumped with thermal springs coming from inside Gellert Hill and is believed to have healing powers for rheumatism. It's adjoined by the Gellert hotel but I'd read reviews that the hotel has a long way to go as far as luxury accomodations go.
The place was packed since it was a weekend. Entry into the complex and finding the lockers were a bit confusing but when we eventually made it in, we were psyched. It's a bit of a maze inside between the hallways, staircases and rooms. I accidentally stumbled into the women's changing room much to the attendant's shagrin.
We stayed a couple of hours going from pool to pool, room to room until we realized that we had done all of them several times over. It was a great experience all in all. We felt so refreshed and relaxed.

We needed several shots of espresso at the cafe to wake us up. The day was young, and so were we, so we headed out to Castle hill to take photos of the Danube, along with every other tourist in for the weekend.