Budapest

Okay, it is official - Budapest is my absolute favourite place so far. The river cruise at night was simply awesome. We were each given a glass of bubbles upon arrival on our boat, then we had a huge Hungarian buffet dinner.  So much gorgeous food.  Not sure that many of the dishes fare well in the Weight Watchers menu plan, but I'm on holidays so I'll worry about the potential thickening waist line in a couple of weeks! Nce localwines to accompany dinner and then it was time to head up top to have a drink or two and watch Budapest at night whilst crusiing on the Danube!!! I wonder what the peasants are doing? 
Hey peasants, what are you doing???
All too soon it was 10 p.m. and time to head back to our hotel.  What a lovely, lovely day.
Then after breakfast we were up and out again at 8 a.m. for a city sights orientation tour and first stop was Heroes Square which had some fabulous monuments.  Then off to the UNESCO listed Castle Hill district.  Fabulous views across the parliament and Danube river which were even more impressive as the weather continues to be brilliant - about 25 degrees with lovely blue skies and a few fluffy white clouds. No sooner did we drop some of our group back at the hotel and we were off again on the optional tour to Szentendre (St Andrew's).  Lovely stop along the way at an excavated Roman city of Aquincum.  I certainly didn't expect to be seeing Roman ruins in Hungary, but I'm learning much more about Hungary's history and it sounds like almost every man and his Communist dog has been through the place at some stage. Then it was on to Szentendre and lunch in a totally quirky restaurant where we had goulash soup (three bowls of it) and cake. (Okay they also served wine...).  Then it was time for shopping, shopping, shopping. The town is a delightful maze of medieval buildings with cobbled streets.  Although there was plenty of imitation Chinese items, there were also a number of locally handcrafted items and clothing.  The Hungarian embroidery was simply beautiful - so I had to buy just a few things...  what a lovely day.  Back on the coach and then back into the hotel room for a much needed cuppa and blog catch up.  But that isn't the end of our day as we are about to head off to dinner where we are guests of a local family. Can this perfect weather hold out?

Did I already wonder what the peasants might be doing???