Budapest

3 days in Budapest. We stayed in an inner city apartment on the Pest side of the river. Budapest was the combining of 2 cities on either side of the river, Buda (the ritzier side) and Pest (more working class and currently more partiers). The apartment was close to all the tourist attractions. Took a food tour, a bus tour, a river tour, visited the medicinal thermal bath and had a 2 hour Thai massage (ahhhhh). Getting on a Viking river cruise for a 2 week trip on the Danube to Amsterdam.view from our window-2picsour apt buildinghungarian goulashbus tour-5 picsThe Dohány Street Synagogue is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. The Jews were decimated in WWII and were either killed escaped, with very few returning (would you?)Opera houseHeroes’ square with statues of the leaders of 7 tribes who founded Hungary.something important- I just know whatDanube 1 hour river cruise-9 picsparliment building 3 pics​

​food tour guide Suzie they waste nothing- this is chicken headsfood market 2 picsguide showing how Danube flooded (white area) before concrete sides to the river put in the citychocolates- yumnew age bar 2 picsmaker of Rubic’s cube from Budapest- I was always able to solve the puzzle as long as the the little cubes has peel off colored stickers​St Stephens Basilica- finished in 1905 a Roman Catholic basilica named in honour of Stephen, the first King of Hungary (c 975–1038), whose supposed right hand is housed in the reliquary.​our food tour group​making strudel 2 pics​great food tour group- 1 Aussie, 2 brits, the local guide and 2 from Denver ( he worked at GoDaddy when it began, cashed out and retired at 40, met his wife online when she was in Chicago, but originally from Columbia. Now 45 they travel)St Stephens Basilica The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74 °C (165 °F) and 77 °C (171 °F), respectively although the hottest we found was 40 other than the various steam and sauna rooms-14 picslife guards in the shadeBeth sunbathing in the shadecatching a few rays​​cool looking fountain