Thursday, January 22, 2009

Budapest (1)

To balance my posts with some lighter things, here is the continuation of my travel (back) log.

Continuing from Bratislava, we went on to Budapest, Hungary. It's a mere 3-hours train journey from there.

First there is the cathedral. We went up the tower and look around from there. Unfortunately, the weather was a bit cloudy, so it wasn't as good as it should have been. But the size of the cathedral looks really massive and impressive.

From there we went to a museum. The good part of the museum building is that it looks like a fairy tale castle, with river flowing, bridge and main gate.

I can't remember exactly what it was, maybe some farming museum or so, but we didn't find it interesting to go in and rather just walk around the building exterior.

We had a pretty late lunch, but it was good. There are dishes similar to the one in Bratislava, the potato noodle, but the place had substantially put in more meat in it. In that way, it is much more decent meal.

Finally, at night we went to see the river. It separates the upper part (buda-castle) of the city with the lower part (pest) and hence the name of the city.

The city lights were very pretty. We walked through the river bank with a backdrop of a bridge and the Buda castle.




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