This is a view of the city from the top of the Citadel. You can see a bit of the chain bridge on the left (the oldest bridge across the Danube River) and the really fancy building in the background is the parlament building.
Aimee,
We just left Austria, and since he will be Hungarian, how about a brown one named goulash?
We had a great day in Budapest. It was majical to not have to carry a map and always make decisions about where to go next.
Where to begin? Grandma cooked us some amazing scrambled eggs and onions. They were the best we have ever tasted. Seriously. Not just because we are so far from home. J took us to a church inside a cave that was very unreal. The church was small, but very quaint.
Then we hiked(climbed stairs, really) to the top of great lookout just by one of the hot spring here called the Citadell. The view was beautiful and we could look down on the Danube and the Parliment building (very beautiful. Pictures will follow). We went to a great market place that was like a really upscale flea market.
Oh, and things here are incredibly cheap (especially compared to Vienna). The exchange rate is good, and so 1 dollar is about 200 forints. So, a yogurt is about 38 forints. We walked a ton, and ate some incredible food. First we had fired dough thing covered with cheese, then a rounded hollow cinnamon roll type thing. It was crispy and very sweet. Hungary is famous for their sweets. We plan to investigate this more tomorrow.
It was a pretty cloudy and cool day. Sue and J were cold, but Janna was a furnace. Late in the afternoon we went to the terror museum. It documents the two big reins of terror in Hungarys history (Nazi and Soviets) It was really well done and we had tour guide J to translate everything and answer all our silly questions about communism (like, was there money then? Yup, there was)
After more walking and enjoying the city, we headed back on the subway and trams. By the way the blue line subway looks like Stalin could ride in on it at any moment. In fact, it was a gift from Stalin, and you know how things were made to last them. It has lasted a long time. We also got to ride the yellow line, which was the first underground on continental Europe. It was originally pulled by horses. It is shallow, and if possible, the cars look even older than the blue line. They may be a bit noisy, but they are really fast and easy.
For dinner, Js grandma made soup, . . .dumpling stuffing, hungarian style ? and fried cheese and rice. Time to go to bed.
We just left Austria, and since he will be Hungarian, how about a brown one named goulash?
We had a great day in Budapest. It was majical to not have to carry a map and always make decisions about where to go next.
Where to begin? Grandma cooked us some amazing scrambled eggs and onions. They were the best we have ever tasted. Seriously. Not just because we are so far from home. J took us to a church inside a cave that was very unreal. The church was small, but very quaint.
Then we hiked(climbed stairs, really) to the top of great lookout just by one of the hot spring here called the Citadell. The view was beautiful and we could look down on the Danube and the Parliment building (very beautiful. Pictures will follow). We went to a great market place that was like a really upscale flea market.
Oh, and things here are incredibly cheap (especially compared to Vienna). The exchange rate is good, and so 1 dollar is about 200 forints. So, a yogurt is about 38 forints. We walked a ton, and ate some incredible food. First we had fired dough thing covered with cheese, then a rounded hollow cinnamon roll type thing. It was crispy and very sweet. Hungary is famous for their sweets. We plan to investigate this more tomorrow.
It was a pretty cloudy and cool day. Sue and J were cold, but Janna was a furnace. Late in the afternoon we went to the terror museum. It documents the two big reins of terror in Hungarys history (Nazi and Soviets) It was really well done and we had tour guide J to translate everything and answer all our silly questions about communism (like, was there money then? Yup, there was)
After more walking and enjoying the city, we headed back on the subway and trams. By the way the blue line subway looks like Stalin could ride in on it at any moment. In fact, it was a gift from Stalin, and you know how things were made to last them. It has lasted a long time. We also got to ride the yellow line, which was the first underground on continental Europe. It was originally pulled by horses. It is shallow, and if possible, the cars look even older than the blue line. They may be a bit noisy, but they are really fast and easy.
For dinner, Js grandma made soup, . . .dumpling stuffing, hungarian style ? and fried cheese and rice. Time to go to bed.
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