Walking tour, sightseeing and ruin bar

Geraldine and Thomas and Brad and I did our own thing for breakfast this morning and met up around 9:30 a.m. In order to orient ourselves to Budapest, we had booked a walking tour at 10 a.m., the meeting point of which was quite near our hotel. It was a Guru Walk and our guide, Gabor, had been hosting walks for 10 years. He was extremely knowledgable as well as enthusiastic with a great sense of humor. It made for a wonderful morning.

We had a light lunch at a cafe and then went to see the “Shoes on the Danube by sculptor Gyula Pauer and film director Can Togay, it’s a simple but poignant display of 60 pairs of old-style boots and shoes in cast iron, tossed higgledy-piggledy on the bank of the river.”

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From there, we crossed the Chain Bridge over the Danube from Pest to Buda to climb up to the Fisherman’s Bastion, a lookout over the city. The views were spectacular. We wandered back to our hotel from there to freshen up before dinner.

We went to a restaurant called Blue Tomato that had been recommended by our waiter at lunch. It’s frequented by locals and serves
traditional Hungarian food. We loved it.

Finally, we took an Uber to a ruin bar, Szimpla. You can read more about ruin bars here:
https://budapestflow.com/history-ruin-bars-buda… it was certainly unlike any bar we’ve been to before. And we were the oldest people there by decades. 😂Read more