Budapest

Bryan and I have fallen in love with Budapest!  Just a great city all around.  Everyone speaks English which has been good since we know very little Hungarian.  The overall atmosphere is really neat -- there is a great mix of old and new.

The view from our hotel room of the Buda side 

View from the other side of the hotel on the Pest side 

We were starving after the train -- found this food just a block from the hotel in Vorosmarty Square

Giant sausages

Num!

Giant Ferris wheel 

St Stephen's Church

View of the Chain Bridge and St Stephen's

Panorama of Pest 

Chain Bridge

A rare photo of us

Parliament 

Margitsziget

Our hotel -- very nice inside

Buda -- where most people live

Matthias Church

Matthias Church -- tiles for roof are made in Hungary

Matthias Churcg

Looking back at Buda

Bryan on the Chain Bridge

Chain Bridge

Grand Synagogue 

Grand Synagogue

Time to eat something different -- salad sampler and ramen --  tasted so good!

Ruin Bar!!! -- Szimpla Bar -- ruin bars are a big thing here --  basically old abandoned buildings (usually communist govt housing) turned into bars

These pictures do not give this bar justice -- so many hidden rooms and weird objects

Outdoor area at Szimpla 

Band in a back room

Upstairs

Enjoying some beers

Our chairs at the bar :-)

Don't worry -- the dryers moved so we didn't sit like that all night

Chair/old bathtub

Central Market Hall

Neat apt buildings

Central Market Hall

Central Market

Mmm...fresh veggies!

Hungarian Meat

Central Market

Szabadsag Bridge

Szabadsag Bridge

Szabadsag Bridge

Bridge

Cave Church

Buda

Szechenyi Bath House

Inside the bath house -- I didn't bring my phone with me but we dipped in several thermal pools and used the sauna-- very relaxing 

Needed a snack after all of the baths! -- gyro, sausage and langos (fried bread with cheese, sour cream and garlic juice)

City Park

Heroes Square

Beer in Vorosmarty Square

More pictures to come after tonight but I wanted to get these posted...