Outside My Window: Budapest, Hungary

Kalvin Ter

Getting to Europe from the non-hub airport

that I fly out of is never easy but when we

were traveling from Indianapolis to Budapest

we had no idea just how long it would take us.

We arrived at the airport in Indy a little over

two hours ahead of our flight.  They told us

Newark was starting to back up and since

we were flying on to Budapest that evening,

they would put us on an earlier flight.

For us that meant leaving the beautiful

Indianapolis airport where we planned to

have lunch and instead having to spend

two extra hours and have a terrible dinner

in the horrible Newark airport.

We like to fly Lufthansa if we are going

through Germany because they are always

on time.  Well, I guess no airline can be

perfect and when we arrived in Munich

we had to go through customs and security

and arrived at our gate with 5 minutes to

spare and were told, in German, that the

bus to take us to the plane had left and

we would have to wait 6 hours for the

next flight to Budapest.

And as Murphy's Law would have it,

it snowed all day... and night.

As we waited for our flight we could see

the departures boards showing cancelled

flights.  By the time our flight was supposed

to leave at 5pm our flight was the only one

that was not cancelled on our board.

After another two hours they finally told us

we were going and we headed out.

When we arrived in Budapest nine hours

late, we were thrilled to see our driver

waiting for us.  I told him I was going

to kiss him!

Then he took us through the beautiful

Budapest to our Piano Suite.

I was exactly what I wanted, an old

building with 14 foot ceilings and huge

windows and old furniture including

a piano.  There were french doors with

squeaky hinges and old door knobs.

And in the morning, I woke up to

the beautiful old buildings just off

Kalvin Ter.

Each day I would wake up early

and sit on the window sills and

admire the architecture.

Some days I would throw open

the windows and take photos of

the surrounding buildings.

And I can't wait to go back...