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26512 first full day in Budapest, the only thing we really did was the Museum of Terror. first off, i need to communicate how excited i was to go to this, as the first time i came through Budapest, it was Easter, and the place was closed. anyways, the museum was very cool, it was very very well done. like ive been to a good handful of museums dealing with such heavy topics, and some time you come out very sobered, like almost feeling like a collective human guilt for letting this happen, while other times youll end up confused, like the museums were disingenuous or something. this had neither, i got done, and it seems like the Hungarians have a good handle on their rather ugly history. so Hungary, after WWI became its own country for the first time in a while, and subsequently they lost plenty land to Croatia, and Romania, and Italy and whatnot, and they, like the rest of the losers of WWI were generally upset, and then the depression hit and it got worse, and eventually by the breakout of WWII fascism was lookin pretty sweet. they sided with the Nazis, and by '44 after the Nazis rolled into Hungary, their own National Socialist party, the Arrow-Cross party ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross_Party ) popped up. and the museum went over how they did all kinds of awful things to their own people. then the museum went into how Soviet Communism rolled in, and did even more terrible shit. as the communists were in power alot longer more of the museum was dedicated to that. they also in the basement recreated the various kinds of cells used for torture, and confession extraction, and murder and whatnot, so that was crazy. i dunno, i cant really describe, there was lots of information on everything, but it was definitely something you need to see, to wander around the cells used (though this building only had holding, and maybe mild confession extraction cells, rather than the killing n stuff), was sobering. after the museum we wandered around a lil. we followed one of the girls, who had been here before, with family in the area, and we got a lil turned around, walking an unnecessary 1000m or so, i was cool, but one of the other girls in the group was lame (like literally lame, too sick to be wandering aimlessly), eventually we found our way to the fancy indoor multi-story market ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Market_Hall_%28Budapest%29 ) over by the green bridge ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bridge_%28Budapest%29 ). that was cool, had some fried dough, covered in nutella and fried bananas, it had more than enough calories to last me the day, and it was equally delicious. after the food, we hopped the tram (we really, truly wanted to pay, but the machine was broke) and got ourselves home. most of the group wanted to head to the baths, which is apparently the thing to do in Budapest, and then me and one of the girlies (the one whose foot i mended), had a romantic (haha) dinner at the only restaurant in the area that was OPEN, apparently Budapest shuts down round 3pm on a Saturday, cause you know, no one wants to go out to dinner, or shopping in the mid-afternoon of a damn Saturday. got to bed early, read some books, and sleeped hard