Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and Boldog Karácsonyt to everybody. Untill december 28th I will be out of town, so now news, no reviews just relaxing, eating and drinking as every year. I will be in Csíkszereda, Transilvania for this Christmas. For all Hungarians of you, this is what is waiting for me:
Now that was the dirty version of Transilvanian swearing. If you want more of these videos check out this. They are absolutly hilarious.
So, merry christmas to all of you.
Written in PrivateBack from Cancun
Wow, that was a great holiday. Before I left I checked the pictures of the JW Marriott, the hotel we would stay in most of the time and the pictures just looked fantastic. I thought there was some Photoshop going on but except from the people shown it looked exactly the same.
After we landed we went to Tulum, a little city 130km south of Cancun and honestly the better place because it has a lot of amazing sights and endless beach with little bungalow resorts which I like really much. We visited som Maya ruins which were just incredible. Also I checked out crocodiles in a lake which where around 2m long.
After 3 days there and several other interesting trips we headed over to Cancun. Basically this part where we stayed, called Hotel Zone, consists only of high class hotels like Marriot, Hilton, Le Meridien, Hyatt, Riu and so on. As I mentioned we stayed in JW Marriott, a AAA 5 Diamond hotel, which was absolutly above everything I expected. Several indoor and outdoor pool areas as big as football fields, spas, Jacuzzi, Tennis fields, amazing breakfast, all rooms with large flat screen TVs, 7 restaurants and so on. I mean this was just a blast. Check out some pictures:
I thought that the pictures of the beach would just one day of the year look nice but the water is even in the low season green, blue whatever. Paradise on earth if there wouldn’t be all these massive hotels. As I have read Cancun 50 years ago was a village of 2500 people basically living from fishing. What you find now is hotels, bars, restaurants, shopping centers, activity agencies and as it is a loved place by the Americans you can find your Hooters, CNN, US candy and all these things which annoyed me a bit.
The Mexican food is very nice, I thought that Hungarian food is somewhat spicy but the salsas offered next to your Tacos, Burritos and Fajitas are just hot hot hot. But good. You still could feel it the day after. And what you get next to every food is some kind of bean puree which I hated before we went there but now I really like it but I can’t see Tacos for a while anymore.
I did the tours I wanted to do. 2 tank diving including the boat was 61$, fishing including the boat and drinks 100$. Not too cheap but definetly worth it. Two things that for sure stayed in my mind, when we were diving down in around 15 meters in one of the reefs the dive master was “calling” us towards him and when he was putting his hand under some reef a shark came out. I was shitting my pants even though it was a not dangerous shark as I heart afterwards. But swimming with a shark wow. Second thing was catching a Baracuda which is a hell of a big fish with teeth like a monster. It was not too hard to get him out but it tooks some work and a beer afterwards. Check out this one:
All in all it was an absolutly amazing holiday which I don’t want to miss in my book of places I have visited but if I should go to Mexiko again one day it will not be Cancun. It is just too touristic.
Written in PrivateMadonna in Vienna
Yesterday I have been to the Madonna concert in Vienna like tons of other Hungarians as well. It was a blast. I mean Madonna is a world star whom you cannot see every day. The ride there took about 2 hours from Budapest to Vienna. The concert was open air on “Donauinsel” which is a quiet big island on the danube in Vienna. More than 50.000 people were there. Fuck those black market ticket guys who were running around all over asking for tickets to buy for lousy 30% of the original price. On the other end they sold them for the full price. I mean it is not 2 or 3 people asking for tickets but really tons of them. Absolutly annoying.
Madonna played a mix of new and old songs, remixed songs and really good music even though I had the feeling that there was some decent playback involved. Mind you, the lady is 50 years old, absolutly fit and that show cannot be sung 100% live. Some songs really sucked but most of them were fantastic.
The only problem was the view on the stage. I mean we came a bit late but still we didn’t make it further than approx. 250m away from the stage which let Madonna appear maybe 5 cm tall. The screens were defintely not large enough to have a good view especially for the people standing far in the back. The next problem was that we had 3 bouncer like guys standing in front of us each minimum 1,90m tall so we had trouble to see the stage but in the end we could. Additionally they built up a lot of big tents for food and drink right in the middle where most of the people are standing or want to stand.
Pure horror was to get out of the venue. Basically 50k people had to cross 2 small bridges which led from the island to both shores of the island. From there the highway to Budapest was packed. I mean on a tuesday night you usually have no traffic at all but yesterday night there was high traffic at least till the border to Hungary. So I arrived home around 3 in the night. Overall it was a good concert except from some minor things but it was abig show.
Edit: Oh and what I forgot to say is that Madonna didn’t even come back on stage a second time. Just a big “Game over” appeared on the screens and on stage and that was it. But the audience didn’t even claimed it. Anyways that was a very sad end for many of the people.
Written in PrivateMy daily Budapest sightseeing tour
Sometimes I think about how nice it is to live in a city where other people go on holiday. In the same moment I think about the people living next to the beach, they live where I make holidays. Anyways my daily way to work takes me along the Danube from north to south. No matter if by car or by bike I can see all sights among the Danube and there are some. So today I decided to take my camera with me which I planned all week but today finally I did and took pctures of the biggest sights in Budapest which I see every day. My private daily sightseeing tour in Budapest.
Written in Daily Life, PrivateNew URL in Google
As I changed the URL of this blog from blog.budapestagent.com to budapestagent.com/blog I was curious how fast Google will adopt the new URL in the result pages. Today I checked and the new URL is up. Of course I redirected the old one via 301 redirect to the new one and also the old posts to the new ones.
So from now on only budapestagent.com/blog can be found in Budapest. It gave the ranking for Budapest Blog a small push, from 15 or something to 12 now but thats definetly not all… still a long way to the top.
Written in Internet, PrivateBy bike to work in Budapest
Due to the school start in Budapest I decided to go by bike to work today. Everything went fine. As usual when I go by bike I am almost as fast as by car except that I don’t have the traffic. On my way back though I nearly got hit by a car. After I breaked heavily and he as well I was looking through the front window (it was so close that it was only 2m away from me) and the guy new exactly that he made a big mistake and almost hit me. His head was hanging down, his eyes almost closed and he was trying to find some mistake between the gas and the break pedal.
Unfortunately this is an everyday experience here in Budapest since the roads for bikers are too poor and there are just some in the entire city. But in the same time I love riding my bike and won’t let go.
Written in Daily Life, PrivateSunshine on Margit island
This afternoon I have been to Margit sziget with the dog and a beer. It is an absolutly lovely place to be. Literally it is in the middle of the city but you don’t here a car or anything else. It just feels like you are in the middle of nowhere. Taking a walk with the Vizsla and having a beer is really great entertainment for me.
Else, the city traffic is really killing me at the moment. Under Szabadság bridge on the Pest side one lane is closed, the Buda Rakpárt is completly closed and kis Körút and Hungaria Körút are both stuck anyways. This means for me that my way to work is nearly twice as long as usual but smetimes I go by bike which makes the way really enjoable and “short”.
Written in PrivateYou blog about Budapest?
Do you have a blog about Budapest? Than tell me. I opened up the section “Budapest Blogs” which is still quiet fresh but already well visited. So if you have a blog about you Budapest trip or just a general Blog around the city let me know and I will add your blog. Get a rel follow link for a backlink from your site!
Written in Budapestagent, PrivateBudapest and Vienna
Budapestagent.com is going to extend its knowledge to Vienna. Since a couple of weeks Viennaagent is launched under www.viennaagent.com
This does not mean that Budapestagent will not be updated anymore we will go on with Budapest as well. So if you want to visit Vienna in the near future take a look at the new Viennaagent.com and find the same good information as you are used to from Budapestagent.com
Top 10 is gone
Unfortunately the Top 10 position for the keyword Budapest is gone. It is “just” position 11 so a little help from you guys and its back up on the first page. But we will get this managed sooner or later we will pass others as well…
Written in Budapestagent, PrivateTop 10 position for “Budapest”
Today I checked the Google search result pages as usual and when the results appeared I couldn’t believe what I saw… Top10 position for the keyword “Budapest” on Google.com with Budapestagent.com
What a great news that is. I keep on going to put all my effords in this site to deliver more and more content, news and information on Budapest.
In the same time I would like to say thank you to all of you who support me, link me and tell their friends about the site. It gives a lot of motivation to see such good results.
Thank you!
Written in Budapestagent, PrivateMerry Christmas
The Budapestagent wishes all his users and partners a merry christmas 2006. Visit Budapest also in 2007 and recommend Budapestagent.com to your friends and family.
Written in Daily Life, PrivateHungarian… difficult language
Hungarian class this morning. Not awake but trying to learn the hardest language on earth. It is related to nothing. Absolutly nothing. Some people say it has some relations to Turkish or Finnish but I cannot see anything similar. In my wildest dreams I would not create words like they do. One ending after the other. Well after one and a half hours it was enough and I was even more tired than before. If it helps fine but up to now it is really hard to create sentences… We will see.
Written in PrivateYou blog?
By the way do you blog? This is more or less my first blog. I started one before but did not get it managed to keep it up to date. Now for Budapestagent.com I decided to start all over. I will write about anything that happens around me, even if it is useless maybe even some German. I try my best to let you know anything what happens in Budapest.
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