Budapest, some side notes

During my week long visit in Budapest, I have noticed the following few things:

- Hungarian people smokes a lot... man, woman, young, old... everybody smokes. they can't smoke in the public transports so once they got off the first thing they do is to light up a cigarette and puff away.

- There are loads of McDonalds here in Budapest. Every couple of blocks you are sure to find a huge McD restaurant. There are also Burger King, KFC and Subway but still McD out-numbered the rest.

- Here in Budapest, night and day, every half and hour or so, you will hear the loud sirens of the police cars / ambulance screaming away. It might be due to the fact that the buildings in the town are tall and pretty closed by that creates an echo effect and reflects the sirens making it so so loud.

- Homeless people are plenty in the town. At night, you can see them sleeping at the underground metro station lobby just outside the stalls. There are also some sleeping in the corner of the building in the streets. These are people around the age of 50+ and over. As opposed to other countries that I've been to where the homeless or beggers would flock to the tourists, the Hungarians would only approach the locals to ask for some change.

- It is here in Budapest I've seen the most bizarre pets. I've seen a couple 'walking' their pet rabbit, fully equipped with a neck leash at Vorosmarty square and also a kid with her pretty huge white rat (or maybe its a hamster but pretty huge in size) while walking at the Margerat Island.

- Cafe culture is huge here. I think this applies to all European countries due to the fine weather they have.