Around noon I went with Tash and Kade to Rudas Baths, another Turkish Spa in Budapest.
I'm happy to report that my experience at the baths this time was overwhelmingly positive. Rudas is rather traditional, in that it is non co-ed during the week, but, being Sunday, all three of us were able to go. The locker rooms are really neat because instead of a locker, each person has their own "cabin", which is just a small changing room where you also lock your stuff after you are done.
If you only pay for the thermal baths as we did, Rudas has one large Turkish bath, five smaller pools, and wet and dry saunas. The Turkish bath is about 36 degrees, and the other baths range from 16 to 42 degrees. The dry sauna gets up to about 80 degrees (yes, Celsius). The wet sauna feels even more intense from inside, but is probably only 50-60 degrees. After three hours, I felt so relaxed that it felt as if gravity had gotten stronger while we were bathing.
After the baths we were pretty hungry so we stopped at a cafe just across the bridge before hiking the remaining 20 minutes to a sushi place only two doors down from my hostel. Tash and Kade were heading to Poland tomorrow, whereas I would be going to Vienna, but we would be seeing each other again a week from now in Prague so our adieus were heartfelt, but not overly sorrowful.
At the hostel I joined some others watching Rick and Morty in the common room (at this point I'm thinking 'how much better can this day get?'), before joining a group of Canadians and Israelis going out for dinner. We stopped at a Caribbean place and afterwards went to a beer garden for drinks. At this point our group splintered off and the Canadians and I bounced around a few pubs, but not finding much going on at any of them, returned to the hostel around 11pm.
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