Budapest
Yesterday: Pest
Today: Buda
(Tomorrow: Budapest --> London --> Edinburgh)
Yes, Budapest is actually two distinct cities, Buda and Pest, separated by the Danube. Yesterday we got our transit passes and fully took advantage of the metro and tram, zipping all over Pest to see some of the amazing monuments. I'd read in Lonely Planet that Pest is the flat, industrial neighbor to Buda, so I'd assumed it would be rather boring and probably kind of ugly. Here is where I am wrong. Very wrong. I'll elaborate more on what we saw later (we're on our way out the door right now for a full day in Buda, as it's our last day), but the list includes: Heroes Park, The Magyar Museum, Parliament, The Danube, some cool Easter marketplace and lunch at a well-known cafe, St. Stephen's Basilica (though not his mummified right hand, boo), and the old synagogue. I might have forgotten a couple of things; I'll have to check my pictures and guidebook and fill you in later.
Now we're off to Statue Park, where they've dragged a bunch of old communist statues together, and then Buda. I'm excited.
P.S. If I thought Romanian was hard... Hungarian is crazy. No joke. They have words longer than train stations to put them on.
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