Budapest

Budapest night life was incredible which I had no prior knowledge of. After talking to the owner of our hostel about our film project, he took it upon himself to show us something that no other city could match. The night life and energy of the bars and club scene in Budapest was phenomenal. 6 different dance floors with 6 different types of music going on at the same time. People packed everywhere and massive amounts of dancing.

It was quite hilarious walking around the club with a camera because I was bombarded with people asking me to take their picture for some reason. We got some hilarious pictures of people thinking I worked for some Hungarian night life website/magazine. Unfortunately the camera was taken away within an hour of us going around filming everyone at the club. Their reason was that the camera was "too big" even though someone else later that night was going around with the same camera taking photos. It was frustrating however we didn't speak Hungarian and I did not wish to argue (consequently or potentially getting kicked out). So the camera was checked at the coat room and we relaxed and had a good time enjoying the club.

It was a good night and we did get some good footage with the less obtrusive flip cam which seems to come in handy quite often when we need to be more stealth with our filming.

Outside of the clubs, the Budapest Parliament building was a site to see and so was the Dohany Street Synagogue. Dohany Street Synagogue is the largest functioning synagogue in all of Eurasia.

Budapest was a pleasant surprise and I hopefully will be back someday to spend more than a few days their.