Budapest

Early start, left hotel at 5:15 to walk across to terminal 3. No queues but we did get the trainee on his first day serving real customers supervised by an experienced agent who reminded him of some really basic stuff. Landed at Budapest but then a lot of waiting around, for another set of guests on a later plane before we got the coach. An hour or so to the quayside to board before waiting for the room to be ready. The level of the Danube is currently very low so some of the cruises are having to start further up river. We decided to go out for a walk, but as it is a bank holiday in Hungary to commemorate the 1956 revolution, almost everything is closed. Strolled the bank side path to the Green bridge crossing the river to walk along the opposite bank and then back across the “chain bridge. Now we have walked through both Buda and Pest (which I think is the side of the river where we are moored).Read more