Budapest!

We had a lazy morning before heading to the Vienna train station for a train to Budapest. While Thomas has been to Budapest a few times, but not recently, Geraldine, Brad and I have never been so we were quite excited to embark on this little getaway. We met Thomas and Geraldine at the station and boarded the train which turned out to be a gong show.

Thank goodness Thomas had reserved seats for us because there had been a train car removed from the route and the passengers’ tickets from that car had not been canceled! It was insane. It’s about a three hour train ride from Vienna to Budapest and some people stood in the aisles with their luggage for the entire journey.

We arrived in the city late afternoon and checked into our hotel, which is in the centre of things and an old grand hotel with soaring ceilings and a magnificent spiral staircase leading to each floor. (Yes, there’s an elevator as well.) We settled in and met for sundowners on the hotel terrace to figure out where we’d go for dinner. Brad had read about a traditional Hungarian restaurant with musicians playing “gypsy music” which sounded like fun. Thomas called and got us a reservation and off we went. It was perfect.

Tomorrow, we’ll explore the city.もっと詳しく