On our last day in Budapest, we walked across the river to the “Buda” side of the city to walk around the Budavar castle and Fisherman’s Bastillion. The other side of the city, across the river where we were...
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We’re staying near the Opera house in Budapest. Today we decided to walk, instead of taking the metro, to Hero’s Square, which was 2.5km.Elora and Ollie were both very excited to get out of the stroller once we...
My (Chris’) Mom came to visit us in Vienna and we decided to take the train over to Budapest for a few days.Here we are after our full 3 hour train ride (which the Austrian train service calls a “just over 2 hour...
This large pool inside the Gellert bath was actually COLD! I tried to go in about three times and always gave up and went back to the small warm pool. Chris went all the way in with Elora. He could not turn around because there...
We spent some time just wandering around the city and enjoying the general splendor of the architecture and random statues.This is the cave church (I don’t know the official name…) that was built into the side of the...
The Hungarian Parliament is the main governmental building for Hungary. It is like the White House and US Capitol Hill all in one. We decided to take the guided tour to see the inside. Because it’s the main governmental...
There is so much to do in Budapest, and the sites are all within relatively easy walking distance — if you don’t mind walking for 8 miles a day and carrying a 2 seater stroller up a couple hundred stairs…This is...
Our apartment was right around the corner from the Opera. This opera house is rated the third best sounding acoustics in the world, right behind Milan and Paris. Wow.When you are entering the Opera house there are paintings like...
This is the Széchenyi Bath in the city park (every word in Hungarian that has an S, is always followed by a Z – such as Szupermarket and Szauna. Which makes us wonder why they need the Z? or the S? Couldn’t they just...
Here is Chris trying to interpret a street sign. Have you ever tried to read Hungarian? Me neither til this trip, and wow is it difficult to pronounce and even remember what the words are because they are so different than...