The Tour Today.

After we got the Novotel hotel and went out for lunch we went on our tour. We had a Hungarian tour guide to lead the way for us as we toured around the city on the tour bus. We did get to stop and walk around a lot of the sites but this was just meant to be a brief run through. The first stop that we went to was in Buda. Budapest is split into two divisions of Buda and Pest that are split by the Danube river. So while in Buda we stopped at the Fisherman's Basiton, the Buda Castle, the Castle Theatre, Matthias Church, Holy Trinity Square, and the Citadel. All of these places can be seen in the pictures that I posted on Facebook. The Fisherman's Bastion was the area where the fisherman of the town would protect the city walls to the main castle in Buda. Mattias Church and the Holy Trinity Square were right behind this guard where the main city square used to be in the middle ages. We did not get to go inside of Buda Castle but we got to see the outside where the royalty would stay all the way up until the mid 1800's. The Citadel is the point that is the highest in Buda where in WWII they would have artillery fire down at enemy forces coming to attack the town. This is also where I got the great pictures of all the city of Budapest from the high cliff. We also got to see the castle theatre where Beethoven actually preformed.

After we saw these sights We crossed over the Liberty Bridge to go to the town of Pest. Here we all saw Fashion Street which is similar to Parisian architecture and has actually been used in movies for scenes in Paris. Right down the street from this we went down Vaci Street which is one of the favorites of the tour guide as it is the center of all the shopping in Pest. We then saw the Mueseum of applied arts, Hero's square, the Museum of Fine Arts and Vajhunyad's castle. In driving through Pest we got to see where Franz List used to live in Pest as he was a native Hungarian.

After the tour we went to go eat at a great Hungarian restaurant where we ate a traditional Hungarian salad, Grey Cattle Goulash, and Apple Strudel while enjoying Red Cabernet Sauvignon. This would not be complete with out the Violinist and Pianist playing music for us over dinner. Delicious.