buda and pest wanderings

View from atop Buda Hill

Goulash cookers

The famous peppers

 An evening string concert at St. Mathias Church on Buda Hill and

a trout dinner at a chic bistro ended the trip before leaving Budapest via Warsaw for a great weekend in New York.

to hungary we go

Arrived to Budapest the week before the migrant crisis hit deeply, and a few days before the national holiday of St. Stephens Day. Aside from an hour or so delay due to refugees on the train tracks and the no man's land train station we arrived to, navigating a new country, currency and language to our hotel in Pest was no problem at all.

Parliament, modeled after London's style

View from the Danube

Fowl at the Margaret Island zoo with funny headdress

Keleti train station 10 days before it became a refuge for migrants