missing the pest....

I know I've mentioned it before on my blog, but I lived in Budapest, Hungary for 6 months in 2008. I lived on the Pest side (the "s" in Hungarian is pronounced "sh", unless it's followed by a "z", in that case it sounds like "s"). Budapest should actually be pronounced as "Budapesht"....and that is probably the only Hungarian lesson I can give you because it's a VERY difficult language to learn. I only know basic phrases, and most importantly, how to ask for a beer, using my thumbs-up signal to mean 1. 

Anyways, to get to the point, I miss Budapest! I had an amazing semester there and was able to travel all over central Europe, and I really just miss traveling! I've been having some serious Budapest withdrawals so I cannot wait to go back in May with my sister who is in Barcelona right now. I also seriously need to re-take a TON of pictures that I lost from my semester abroad when my computer crashed--that was a very sad day.

I was reading Made by Girl's post today which featured the beautiful home of Hungarian blogger Noémi. After clicking through to her blog I found a few cool Hungarian design sites, I only wish I could actually read them! I did, however, find some beautiful Hungarian interiors that I thought I would share....

Otthon.hu

And now for a treat {mostly for me}, my only remaining photos of my Budapest apartment via Facebook....

Please excuse the mess, these were taken when we fist moved in (January 2008). We rented this apartment through a vacation rental agency so all the furniture was already there...

Our living room, you can see one of my roommates on the couch!

I miss those high ceilings and tall doors...

View into one of the bedrooms

This was my room for the first couple of months, we switched around a lot...

Our tiny kitchen, it actually doesn't look that tiny in this picture but it was really narrow.

Our apartment building.

Our beautiful courtyard!