Wealth of sights makes Budapest a favorite

Trip Start Jul 01, 2011

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Trip End Sep 02, 2011

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Alfa Hotel Fiesta Budapest

Flag of Hungary Budapest, Hungary
Sunday, July 17, 2011

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What better way to spend my birthday?	One of Budapest's sister cities is Fort Worth	Easy to see why city is Pearl of the Danube	Szechenyi Bath-thermal,medicinal&regular pool
Lee enjoyed early morning runs along Danube	Ben loved the gorgeous scenery in Budapest Comments!	Not sure which style faux pas is worse	Guys enjoyed seeing the nice sights
Still beautiful as during first visit in 1990	Synagogue had amazing history;holds 6000	Had such a good time we stayed an extra day	Ben was impressed w/ size of produce
Very photogenic city worth the repeat visits	City-largest Jewish population in E. Europe	Lunching on hummus at veggie restaurant	Szechenyi complex more than 100 yrs old
Vajdahunyad Castle could be in Oz	Ben loved the House of Terror Museum	Love Matthias Church for colorful roof tiles	Freedom Bridge was 1st one rebuilt after WW2
Currency is forint;1 forint=.005 dollars	Lee exercising w/typical Communist workers	1896 iron & glass architecture of Market Hall	Awake or asleep? I know where my money is!
Royal Palace is UNESCO World Heritage Site	Great view of Parliament from Danube cruise	Educational tour thru WW2 & Cold War hospital	You can see why we struggled w/Hungarian
Our knowledge of Hungarian history limited	Royal Palace now houses many museums	Parliament is bigger than British Parliament	Castle Hill is on the Buda side of Danube
St. Matthias Church&Buda Castle	Impressive 1846 Hungarian National Museum	Lee before donning shower cap at Baths	Modern architecture found outside city center
Market Hall had everything you could imagine	Fiesta Hotel was great&perfect location	Hilly Buda streets lack masses seen in Pest	Szechenyi Bath complex was stunning inside
Hospital in Rock prepped for Cold War	We toured largest synagogue in Europe	Got a little nippy on our Danube cruise	Incredible artwork w/ Tree of Remembrance
Lee & I took roadtrip to Memento Park	City has 2 million people&tons of tourists	The language was difficult to grasp	Park had dozens of Communist-era statues
East German cars not known for quality	Having a meltdown on Hop On,Hop Off bus	More than 600 hotels;tourism huge here	St. Stephen's Basilica dome collapsed in 1858
First stop on trip with lots of Americans	Posh McDonald's in Nyugati train station	We saw lots of homeless people in Budapest	Big tourist trap;Szechenyi was much better
Famous statue of Stalin severed at boots	Lagymanyosi Bridge(1995)connects New Buda	Parts of Castle Hill date from the 13th c.	A Trabant that actually appears to be in use
View of Buda from top of Castle Hill	Seniors can ride Metro and buses free in EU	Miles of limestone caves under Castle Hill	Parliament dominates the Pest side of town
Gorgeous domed ceiling of Szechenyi Baths	Hungary's Statue of Liberty on Gellert Hill	Danube looks blue from afar;not up close	Whimsical art projects in pretty city park
Rowers admiring new building and artwork	Mucsarnok one of my favorite buildings here	Hungary's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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