What a delightful day!
We started with an exceptional breakfast buffet at our hotel – the InterContinental. I am a breakfast person; it’s my favorite meal of the day and without a good one, I get grumpy. So this bode well for the day. But then, I expect you don’t really care about my eating habits. You want to know where we went, what we did, and what we saw. So, moving on . . .
We started in the Castle District where we toured Buda Castle, which was the palace complex of the Hungarian Kings in Budapest. It was first completed in 1265, but the massive Baroque complex that exists today wasn’t built until the 1700s.
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For me, one of the best parts of the tour was Matthias Church, located atop Buda Castle Hill. It was beautiful and fascinating. I don’t usually take tours or follow tour guides, but I must admit, I liked it. A lot. It was really nice to have someone knowledgeable about history and the area explain what we were seeing. Our guide was Kathy, and she was excellent.
Matthias Church — did I mention it was beautiful?
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Part of our group, catching some shade before heading across town for lunch and a visit to the Budapest Baths. (Maxine, Arlene, Joan, and Karen.
After leaving Buda Castle Hill, we headed to lunch — delightful — and then on to the Budapest Baths — not my thing.
So, overall it was a great day. My only two complaints — and you can’t really call them complaints, more like, ‘if I had my druthers, these would be different” — were the heat and the baths. The week before the weather in Budapest had been lovely, mid 70s. Today it was in the high 80s, which was way too hot for all the walking we did. And the Baths. Not my thing.
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