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J came to visit last Friday and we had a fantastic weekend in Pest. It was a rare sunny day and we had a lot planned. We went to the Central Market, bought paprika and delicious, properly sweetened cherry strudels, walked aside the Danube and went to the Szechenyi outdoor baths. The baths in the winter are even more amazing than they are in the summer, and we went at sundown when the sky was all shades of purple and pink. An absolutely amazing experience except for and occasional older man creep factor. We finished our day at 6tos, with more creepy men but fun was still had by all. J left on Sunday night before a crazy storm – for a few hours I felt like the tree outside of my balcony was about to collapse onto my building. This did not happened, but there were some definite shrill screams outside. Today it’s another Friday and another good friend is roaming the city on her own until I get off work and rescue her from the claws of the pesty budas.