Budapest

We spent the night of Friday 9 March in Budapest, staying in relative luxury in the Hotel Bristol.   Unfortunately, Sonia found the room too hot so we are spending Saturday night in a motorway service station.

We have been industrious tourists.   Sonia swam and soaked in the Gellert thermal baths while I found a laundrette and dried my socks.  

We then inspected one of the many heroic statutes at the top of Fisherman's bastion before I led Sonia off for a soup in the rococco exhuberance of the New York cafe.  

We found a nice picture of a tree in the only art gallery we found open.  

This evening we are going to see the opera Hunyadi Laszlo (we are promised with English subtitles).   It is a typical jolly opera tale  with the wicked king gorily killing the goodie to get the girl.

Read on to find out where we get to next.