Friday 12th June We explored the area around Varosliget (City Park), where some of the finest buildings and widest boulevards in the city focus upon the massive Millennium Monument. To get there we walked the length of Andrassy Street, the long and wide boulevard from the city centre. This is thought to be Budapest’s most …
June 2015
Thursday 11th June Today we explored the medieval town of Buda which was developed around the 13th century castle. The castle was built on an escarpment that rises to 170 metres above the Danube. Along the foot of this are the spas and bathing houses where the water naturally issued from the cliffs. Today we …
Wednesday 10th June Our hotel is near Kalvin ter and upon leaving at 9:30 a.m. it was already 24 degrees. Budapest is thought by many to be the finest of three of the Habsburg Empire’s largest cities: Budapest, Vienna and Prague. It is essentially two cities split by the River Danube. Buda is on the …
A visit to Budapest
Tuesday 9th June We flew from Manchester to Budapest in Hungary via Frankfurt. We arrived in a thunderstorm, with amazing lightening and at times heavy rain, which lasted most of the night. This did not stop us experiencing Hungarian cuisine in this well established restaurant at the end of Budapest’s most famous street called the …