The Weekend Tourist

ABOUT ME

The Weekend Tourist is a blog written by Jess Friend Bartlett. Sometimes we only do touristy things on holiday - 25 days annual leave a year. That’s a shame, as we’ve 104 weekend days for exploring. This blog is all about discovering your local neighbourhood, attractions, historic places, local eateries and independents, which for me is in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and the wider Cotswolds, UK. And when annual leave adds up, you'll find the occasional far flung adventure.

Budapest: Buda Castle and its Labyrinth
Budapest: Buda Castle and its Labyrinth
26
Mar 2014

Budapest: Buda Castle and its Labyrinth

Travel

On our final day we cruised down Vaci Utca to fill our shopping needs, crossed the Liberty Bridge and spent 45 minutes attempting to locate somewhere to buy a tram ticket.  Riding down to Chain…

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Budapest: Buda Castle and its Labyrinth

Travel

On our final day we cruised down Vaci Utca to fill our shopping needs, crossed the Liberty Bridge and spent 45 minutes attempting to locate somewhere to buy a tram ticket.  Riding down to Chain…

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Budapest: A futuristic Metropolis opera
19
Mar 2014
Budapest: A futuristic Metropolis opera

Budapest: A futuristic Metropolis opera

Travel

Our quest to tick off Budapest’s top ten most opulent buildings as recommended by DK Eyewitness, continued with a trip to the opera. Built in Hapsburg rule, the Opera House opened in 1884 as a…

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Budapest: A futuristic Metropolis opera

Travel

Our quest to tick off Budapest’s top ten most opulent buildings as recommended by DK Eyewitness, continued with a trip to the opera. Built in Hapsburg rule, the Opera House opened in 1884 as a…

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Budapest: taking the waters at Gellert Hotel
Budapest: taking the waters at Gellert Hotel
12
Mar 2014

Budapest: taking the waters at Gellert Hotel

Travel

Nursing a mild hangover, an after effect of a gin concoction known as a ‘Japanese Lover’ served by Budapest’s swank, Buddha Bar, we headed to one of the city’s many thermal baths to utilise the…

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Budapest: taking the waters at Gellert Hotel

Travel

Nursing a mild hangover, an after effect of a gin concoction known as a ‘Japanese Lover’ served by Budapest’s swank, Buddha Bar, we headed to one of the city’s many thermal baths to utilise the…

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Budapest: the blue Danube
10
Mar 2014
Budapest: the blue Danube
10
Mar 2014

Budapest: the blue Danube

Travel

Leaving the safe turquoise cocoon of our hotel, we set off in the direction of Budapest’s Parliament building.  Oddly reminiscent of Britain’s Westminster, the Parliament building was the largest of its kind built by Imre…

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Budapest: relics of the Soviet Union
Budapest: relics of the Soviet Union
08
Mar 2014

Budapest: relics of the Soviet Union

Travel

I was woken at an ungodly hour by the over-excited whispers of twenty six year old man-child lying next to me…’We’re going on holiday! We’re going on holiday!’ and we boarded our lurid pink jet…

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Budapest: relics of the Soviet Union

Travel

I was woken at an ungodly hour by the over-excited whispers of twenty six year old man-child lying next to me…’We’re going on holiday! We’re going on holiday!’ and we boarded our lurid pink jet…

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#5 Tales from Serendib: Gossip will not cook rice.
05
Feb 2014
#5 Tales from Serendib: Gossip will not cook rice.
05
Feb 2014

#5 Tales from Serendib: Gossip will not cook rice.

Travel

In a (perhaps) a somewhat stretched connection, last night I enjoyed a fascinating talk by Cyrus Todiwala, one half of the ‘Incredible Spiceman’ duo on a tour of his new book ‘Mr Todiwala’s Bombay’ (highly…

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