LISBOA

Pictures from Lisbon. It seems so far away now I'm home but I'm slowly making my way chronologically through my trip. Must do's in Lisbon: Try Pateis de Belem (a type of Portugese tart from a specific part of Lisbon), get lost amongst the tiny tiled apartments, go to the Feiro da Ladra Sunday fleamarket, eat sardines (the best fish I've ever tasted), get the bus up then walk down Sintra mountain.

TAPAS

Thanks to expensive flight prices from Budapest directly to Lisbon, I was lucky to have a 2-day'taste' (L.O.L. right?!) of Madrid and was very impressed by it. These photos are primarily of touristy-yet-good San Miguel Market which stocks every type of tapas & sangria you could imagine. I loved the crazy, busy food culture of this city.

18 HOURS

...in Paris. Thanks passport complications

BUDAPEST APARTMENT

A highlight of my trip was spending a week in a friend's late grandmother's apartment in the middle of Budapest. Everything was exactly as she left it and we were often amused by what a 'war child' her grandmother apparently was - a mug's handle that had been broken in at least 5 pieces superglued together, an old deodorant bottle used to store peppercorns and drink bottles' lids reused as spoons. I really loved Hungary and everyone I met there and can proudly say that I can now correctly pronounce 'Magyar' (Hungary in Hungarian - which apparently is the 3rd most difficult language to learn).

M.I.A.

I finally have internet! I had a wonderful and super busy month in Europe and I'm really enjoying the slower pace here in South Africa. These photos I took are of one of my favourite childhood places in a coastal town about 1.5 hours from Cape Town. I spent the past few days here and even though it's Winter, it was still really beautiful and peaceful, and it was great to catch up with family I hadn't seen in years. I'll be breaking Europe up into separate posts and will try to make up for the 5+ weeks that I've been away!