This morning Roger asked me " should I go get fresh pastries for breakfast"? What kind of question is that???? "Of course you should," was my reply. Sorry no pictures, they were gobbled up with no thought of pictures. He is already planning to get some tomorrow so maybe I will take some then. But I will say they were still warm. Is it breakfast yet?
We decided to head up to the castle hill this morning. So we walked down to try to catch the first Hop-On Hop-Off bus but it was full. People were yelling at the poor girl because they couldn't get on the bus. I had asked her if it would be better to walk down to the next stop and she had told me yes. Well it would have been much better for us to have stayed there, as the area in front of the New York Cafe was at least shady. But we did get on the next bus at the other stop.
Matthias Church (Matyas-Templom) is up there. We did not go in because it does cost money to go in and we felt that we had seen the inside of enough churches that it wasn't worth paying to go in.
As a side note though after we got home I read that it is very nice and holds a lot of history inside. If we had known that we would have gone in.
This statue is between the church and the Fishermen's Bastion (Halazbastya)
This guy had a fierce looking eagle that you could pay to take pictures with.
The Fishermen's Bastion looks like it is right out of a fairy tale.
You can pay to go to go up on the top. But there are plenty of good view points that are free.
We even saw a young couple taking their wedding pictures. She looked like a princess in her castle court.
We did walk through some of the shops, but we didn't find anything.
Then we walked over to the castle. Roger was telling Fred that this is where they grow rocks. They just put sand in here and add some water and then they grow into rocks. But really this is the remains of a medieval monastery & church.
They are excavating the Jewish Quarter area.
We did watch the guards do a little switch of positions but we missed the changing of the guards.
The Turul Bird is a mythical bird that is part of the Hungarian history folktales.
Walking down into the castle courtyard we had a good view of the Chain Bridge.
The views of Budapest from up here were amazing. There are over 2,000,000 people who live here.
We just missed the bus, but at least we could sit while we waited for the next bus to show up. We then took it over to the Citadella. There is nothing really over there except booths were people are selling things. Luckily the bus took a 10 minute break so we were able to hop right back on. We then took it down to the Erzsebet Square. Where Roger, Amanda & I were able to purchase tickets for the tour to Eger tomorrow. It would have saved us money to have booked them ahead of time online from Expedia.com.
Then we walked over to St. Istvan's Basilica (Szent Istvan Bazilika).
Fred, Elaine & Roger went inside but Amanda and I waited outside for them because again they charged a donation to go in. This one actually wasn't that much but we didn't feel the need to go in.
We had planned to go to dinner at a place that was recommended to us. We were told the prices were reasonable. Well we didn't fee that $20 a person was reasonable especially since we didn't even know what we would have been ordering. So after a search around the area we ended up at KFC. The best thing about this was we got ICE!!!! They had the ice machine out were you could fill your cup up with ice and get your own soda. Since we haven't had ice in almost a month this was like heaven. We even refilled our cups with just ice and brought it back to the apartment and put the cups in the freezer.
The couple sitting at the other table against the wall laughed when they saw me take a picture of the ice and bring out the ketchup bottle for the fries. I know that sounds bad but to have to buy ketchup at crazy prices for your fries is ridiculous.
This was our bill for dinner. I bet you never thought you would spend 3.850, for dinner at KFC. Which comes out to about $17.00.
We decided to head up to the castle hill this morning. So we walked down to try to catch the first Hop-On Hop-Off bus but it was full. People were yelling at the poor girl because they couldn't get on the bus. I had asked her if it would be better to walk down to the next stop and she had told me yes. Well it would have been much better for us to have stayed there, as the area in front of the New York Cafe was at least shady. But we did get on the next bus at the other stop.
They are excavating the Jewish Quarter area.
This was our bill for dinner. I bet you never thought you would spend 3.850, for dinner at KFC. Which comes out to about $17.00.
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