beautiful buda and pest

the computer closed down on me, again, when i was writing up the next blog bit so a quick entry before breakfast. last night we discovered there is wifi here but you need a password. happily one of the austrians heard i had been asking around for it (office closed) and came over with it. so uploading three this morning before heading to romania. we spent yesterday morning in pest and the afternoon in buda. took coffee in the famed gerbeaud patisserie (only realised it was after we sat down!) and anniversary lunch in a restaurant in a leafy courtyard of the petofi literary museum. by now the sun had really broken through and it was hot!

our traditional hungarian lunch had been delicious but a tad heavy so it was a slow walk back to the chain bridge (built by an english man) via the synagogue (shut for saturday) and over to the buda side to take the siklo up to varhegy. our waiter at lunchtime had told us there was a wine festival on up there but it was expensive to go in so we passed. we had downed a bottle of hungarian rose with lunch so felt we'd had quite enough! a wander around past a lot of souvenir stalls, some much needed cold drinks on a shady terrace, past a incredible church (closed for a wedding),some photos of the stunning views from the fishermen's bastion, the wierdest looking architecture yet, and back down the funicular. an amble back along the river bank to the train and our peaceful campsite.

a lovely place. gwen and vince should enjoy themselves!