Thursday, May 29, 2008

Budapest-how much is 10,000?




We went to Budapest for a few days and I took 10,000 out of a cash machine. The ATM gave me one 10,000 note. It actually only calulated to $65. We got a taxi to our apartment and unloaded our stuff. Our night train from Prague to Budapest was the nicest that I had been on--there was a shower in the bathroom and towels in our compartment! I booked us a city tour to start our time in Budapest. We learned about Buda, Pest, and Budapest. We spent some time and almost left Ev at Hero's Square. We went up to Matthias Church and got a comanding view of both sides of the Danube.

After our tour ended, we had lunch and did some shopping. Later that evening Ev and I enjoyed a dinner cruise along the Danube and Chris opted for Fusion, a nice Asian restaurant.
The next morning we had our planned Parliament Tour. The exterior was seriously amazing and the interior was pretty cool as well.

Besides us there were two other American couples on our tour that we chatted with. We meet interesting people wherever we go! After the tour, we took a taxi back to our apartment, checked out and went to lunch at the Asian restaurant Chris had tried the night before.
We also went the Shephan's Cathedral which we had passed on our tour.
We rushed back to get our bags and caught a taxi to the train station...only to find that our train was almost a half hour late. We also found out that there was no First Class wagons...it was seriously hot and we all took naps. Luckily the train was not too busy and we had a two couchettes to ourselves.

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