Taking the Vienna train at 4:39 p.m., which lasted nearly three hours, Pingguo and his daughter arrived in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

The sky in the west, the sunset is all over the sky, even enchanting, Pingguo thought, is it like his current self?

So Pingguo smiled.

Ping Hanhan was surprised, also smiled, and said, "We will arrive at our new home in a while." It is said that this home is a fully automatic combination lock. ”

Pingguo said: "I have never lived like this, I have checked in by the password, and I don't see the head of the household at all?" ”

Ping Hanhan said: "Yes, we pay through a third party online. Three nights, 337 Hungarian FT per night. ”

Pingguo was immediately filled with curiosity.

Sure enough, when you come to the gate, you must press the code.

Walking in, a small outdoor elevator, after walking in, the loud bang is terrifying.

Walking through a narrow corridor suspended in the air, the mother and daughter came to the delicate iron door, still a combination lock.

Suddenly there is a bedroom, then the living room, on the right hand side is the kitchen, bathroom, washroom, very trendy paintings, hanging on the wall, all living supplies, everything, very convenient.

Pingguo was very satisfied and said, "It's really good, let's go, hurry up, let's eat, I'm about to faint from hunger!" ”

However, Ping Hanhan said: "Wait a minute, I'll look it up and see where there are Hungarian specialties nearby." ”

So, soon, Pingguo's mother and daughter came to the corner of the street, a bar with a huge business area, which is said to be open until 4 o'clock in the morning.

Cheap in Budapest, less than 50 euros, Pingguo and her daughter ate a soup with bread, a fried white fish, a plate of walnut salad, and a bottle of K· Dry red wine, a cocktail and a large cold beer.

In the bar, the mother and daughter began to talk about their love lives, and seemed to be very touched and painful, so they involuntarily drank a lot until the early hours of the morning.

It was indeed twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and the mother and daughter staggered back to the family apartment, and when they walked down the thin corridor hanging in the air, Pingguo was still surprised, is this girl in front of me my daughter? It's just a best friend, hehe.

The recorded history of Budapest begins with the Roman Empire's 89 founding of Aquigue, a castle, and the settlement that arose to the north of it, located in present-day Old Buda. The local population at that time was mainly Celtic.

In 1241 the Mongol Great Khan Genghis Khan almost completely destroyed Pest.

From 1526 the Habsburgs received the position of King of Hungary.

The Habsburgs finally defeated the Ottoman Empire and restored Hungary.

But the situation of Buda and Pest has not changed, they are still ruled by foreigners, and their inhabitants still have to pay high taxes. A civil riot broke out in the city, but it was suppressed.

In 1723 Pest became the seat of the Royal Government.

In 1838, there was a flood in Pest, and 70,000 people died.

But Pest remained the fastest-growing city in the 18th and 19th centuries. By 1800, Pest's population had grown 20-fold in a century, reaching 600,000 people.

In 1780, the Habsburgs made German the official language in an attempt to control the ongoing riots. At the same time they emigrated from Germany to Hungary. The majority of the inhabitants of Pest are Germans, and it was a time of great ethnic integration.

The two cities are connected by a chain bridge in the summer, and they are still accessible to this day. It was the first official bridge built between 1839 and 1849 at the suggestion of the Hungarian reformer Istfan Széchenyi. Today, the bridge, named after Istfan Széchenyi, is the most famous of the nine bridges that cross the Danube in Budapest.

During the Revolution of 1848, Budapest was one of the most troubled cities. The Hungarians tried to overthrow the Habsburg dynasty, which had ruled for more than 150 years. With the help of Russia, Austria bloodily suppressed the uprising, but this event later indirectly led to the formation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hungary was largely autonomous. The Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I spent symbolically several weeks in Budapest. At that time he lived in the Buda Palace, managed affairs with Hungarian ministers and parliament, spoke Hungarian and wore Hungarian military uniform.

In 1849 the revolutionary government had already merged Buda, Pest and Old Buda into a single city. However, after the Habsburgs restored their rule, they canceled the merger. It was not until 1872 that the two cities were officially united.

The two cities have finally begun to work together on architecture and urban planning in earnest.

In 1919, Kuhn Béla established a Soviet republic in Budapest.

War Minister Holsi organized a conservative anti-government in Seger, which eventually won, and on 16 November 1919 Holsi led his army into Budapest.

By 1930, Budapest had 1 million long-term residents and 400,000 suburban residents.

During World War II until 1944, Hungary attempted to break away from the alliance with Germany, leading Nazi Germany to launch the occupation of Budapest. Despite this, there were still 500,000 Jewish residents, or about a third of them, who died in the Holocaust. Budapest was also damaged by Allied bombing in 1944. The most serious was the 102-day encirclement of Soviet troops from the end of December 1944 to the beginning of February 1945 and the destruction of the encircled German and Hungarian troops. During the retreat into Buda, German and Hungarian troops blew up all the bridges over the Danube. During the entire siege, 38,000 citizens were killed.

Hungary became a republic in 1946; At the instigation of the former Soviet Union; The communist regime in 1949 overthrew the government of the former republic and renamed it the People's Republic.

After the bloody suppression of the Hungarian October Incident in 1956, a nationwide purge was carried out.

Beginning in the 1980s, Budapest, like Hungary as a whole, was shrinking due to declining fertility and migration.

The proclamation of Hungary as a republic in Budapest on 23 October 1989 marked the beginning of a split in the socialist camp.

In 2000, Hungary celebrated its 1,000th anniversary. As a result, many constructions have been carried out in the city of Budapest, including the establishment of parks and cultural centres. The campus of the University of Technology was modernized.

Hungary joined the European Union on 1 May 2004, but still uses FT instead of the euro.

Budapest is located on the banks of the Danube River.

Here the Danube leaves the mountains of central Hungary and enters the Great Hungarian Plain. The highest point in Budapest is 527 meters high. Geologically, Budapest is located on a fault, so there are many hot springs in Buda, but Pingguo and his daughter did not go to enjoy them because they did not have time.

Sheltered by the mountains and inland, Budapest's climate is a relatively dry temperate continental humid climate with warm winters and hot summers, with an average temperature of -1°C in January and 21°C in July. It's a summer resort in the middle of summer.

In Pingguo's view, although Budapest has the reputation of "the Paris of Eastern Europe" and the "Pearl of the Danube", the city's economic strength is obviously very bad, because many streets are dirty and messy, the walls are peeling off and no one has corrected them, and there are many old people begging for money on the streets.

The most important sights in Budapest are located on the banks of the Danube.

On the rocky side of Buda on the west bank are the Freedom Monument and the Castle.

At the bottom of the hill is the Gellért Baths, and downstream of it is the main building of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. On the hill to the north of the castle is Buda Castle. Today the castle houses the National Library, the Hungarian National Gallery and the Municipal Museum. The Sandor Palace next to the castle is the residence of the President of Hungary. To the north of the hill is the Matthias Church, which is located between it and the Danube River is the Fisherman's Bastion. The entire castle district and the view of the Danube River have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. Whether you look out from a boat or from the castle hill, the beautiful scenery is very different, but it is so charming and graceful.

It is said that there is an intricate labyrinthine tunnel structure underneath this area, and this labyrinth part can be visited, but Pinggo has no time.

On the east bank of the Danube, on the gentle side of Pest, stands the Hungarian Parliament House, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, several large hotels, the Pest Ballroom, and further south to the State Opera House and the Palace of Fine Arts.

The Danube is the second largest river in Europe, second only to the Volga River in Russia, originating in the Black Forest region of Germany and finally flowing into the Black Sea, with a total length of 2,857 kilometers, a basin area of 817,000 square kilometers, and an average flow of 6,500 cubic meters per second.

The Danube River is an extremely important international river in Europe, flowing through 10 Central and Eastern European countries such as Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine, and is the river that flows through the most countries in the world, and the basin range also includes Poland, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania and other 9 countries, with more than 300 tributaries. The Danube River finally flows from the Danube Delta into the Black Sea.

Civilizations on the Danube emerged in prehistoric times, such as the Neolithic linear-patterned pottery culture, which existed from the middle of the fifth millennium BC to the first four millennium BC, and was also known as the Danube culture. The highest point in the Danube basin is the Bernina Peak, on the border between Italy and Switzerland, at 4,049 meters above sea level. The Danube River basin covers an area of 817,000 square kilometers. There is an exhibition of these antiquities in the Budapest Museum, where Pingguo's mother and daughter wandered for three hours.

The Danube basin is home to many species, about 2,000 species of vascular plants, more than 5,000 species of animals, including 40 species of mammals, 180 species of birds, 100 species of fish and dozens of species of amphibians and reptiles. Due to habitat degradation and loss, overexploitation and other factors, migratory fish species such as sturgeon and salmon are on the verge of extinction.

On the surface of the river and on the small islands in the river, you can see many animals and plants playing, noisy, and even graceful.

The Danube has also been the subject of many depictions in European literature and art, giving birth to European culture, the most famous of which is the waltz "Blue Danube" composed by Austrian musician Johann Strauss Jr., which is a must-play repertoire at the Vienna New Year's Concert every year. There is also the Romanian waltz "Waves of the Danube".

The Danube is one of the most economically valuable rivers in Europe.

The main stream of the Danube is an internationally navigable river, navigable from below Ulm, and the Rhine-Main-Danube canal connects the Danube and the Rhine to form a water transport network in central Europe.

The Danube Basin countries signed the Danube Conservation Convention in 1994, and the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River became operational in 1998.

As the Danube River is an important international waterway in Europe, the first Danube Commission was established as early as the Treaty of Paris in 1856, with the Danube as an international shipping waterway.

In 1921 and 1923, Austria, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Greece finally ratified the Danube Charter.

After the Second World War, the Danube Commission was established with a new agreement, replacing the 1921 Convention, which stipulated that only the countries riparian Danube would have the right to participate in the re-established Danube Commission.

Chain bridge. There are nine bridges across the Danube in Budapest, the oldest of which is the Chain Bridge, which is also one of the symbols of Budapest.

From Chain Bridge, follow the small ring road on the Pest side past the Tobacco Street Synagogue, the National Museum, the Market Hall, and all the way to the Liberty Bridge. Marking the entrance to the historic Budapest Jewish Quarter, the Tobacco Street Synagogue is located between the inner and outer rings and is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world.

The small ring road is basically built along the walls of the former Pest, the last of which was demolished in the 18th century, and in some places there are remnants of the walls. Between the Little Ring Road and the Danube is the real inner city of Budapest. Running parallel to the Danube, Watts Strasse used to be the city's shopping street and today is the city's most famous shopping street. It connects the market hall with the Flossmati square. To the north of the inner city is the largest church building in Budapest: the Basilica of St. Stephen.

The Great Ring Road was built between 1872 and 1906. It runs from the Pedolfi Bridge to the Margit Bridge and was one of the most important architectural complexes in Europe at the time. The West Railway Station is as much an example of large railway station architecture as the East Railway Station.

There are also several theatres and cinemas on the Grand Ring Road, some of which were forced to close in the late 1990s due to the construction of large cinemas at the West Railway Station and other urban areas. At the intersection of Andrássy Avenue and the Grand Ring Road, which connects the city center with the city park, is an octagonal square.

To this day, Andrássy Avenue is one of the best examples of architecture in Budapest. Since 2002, Andrássy Avenue has been listed as a World Heritage Site. Under the street is the first line of the Budapest Metro, the second in Europe after London.

Gödler, north of Budapest, is said to be the favorite place of the Austro-Hungarian Empress Elisabeth or Princess Sisi at that time, and it is a very interesting place to visit, but unfortunately Pingguo's mother and daughter have no time.

Yes, there are still so many places to wander around in this somewhat decayed big city, but there is no time, and three days is indeed too little.

Pingguo sighed with regret.

Even the tempting malto-scent cold beer in the bar beckons and fascinates her, right? For the past three days, I went to the place where I reported every day.