At last in Budapest

Making our way out of rainy Vienna we arrived in Budapest Friday night and like the travel pros we have become were able to get off the train, dodge the room pimps and the illegal money changers, change money, buy metro tickets and get to our hotel (including train switch) in about 45 minutes.
And mind you, one cannot read a word of signs here. The language is supposedly as hard (the locals try to think harder) to learn than Arabic or Japanese. Everything has an accent, depending on with or without accent as well as the letter combination the pronounciation of the letter changes etc. So even though I tried hard I can only say 3 words, the hardest of which is koeszoenoem (Thank You) . And locals pronounce it Budapesht.
And it is beautiful here. My favorite stop of our travels by far.
Not only that we lucked out and our hotel is super fancy (good deal on Expedia finally), the weather is awesome and it is just so incredibly beautiful here.
Not overrun by tourists, of course there are a bunch of them, but nothing like Prague. It seems a bit like a diamond in the rough, not all of the old buildings have been restored yet, not everything commercialized yet so I feel really lucky that we were here before this part of tourism moves in.
For some reason I have always wanted to come here and i can only recommend it to everyone. A lot was destroyed during the wars, especially the castle which now has museums on the inside rather than remodeled imperial rooms. But there are so many magnificent buildings left to see.
The sparkling light of the parliament and the castle over the Danube at night is a sight to behold.
So I am absolutely loving it.
Most people's english isn't that great, or they just don't want to speak it but I am not getting an unfriendly vibe. The food is good, we probably had the best food of the entire trip here, including a visit to an all vegetarian restaurant.
I feel like have been walking around so much that I am loosing some of my energy but we will enjoy our time here until the last minute until it's back to Berlin for us on Tuesday.