The biggest potential disaster of the trip was not getting the night train tickets in time. I bought the tickets online, only as I checked out did it say you cannot print them, but the must be mailed. It said you need 8 days, we had 10 so ever the optomist, I bought the tickets and crossed my fingers. You guessed it the tickets did not arrive before our flight to Prague. In Budapest they were not very helpful, I'd bought the tickets from Bann.de the Germany rai...

We arrived in Budapest from Vienna, a two and a half our train ride. We got to the apartment, small but really nice. The landlady has a big gentle Bull Mastif, called Charlie. Sjyana wanted to stay and pet the dog or bring it home to Boston. We're hoping Winston is doing ok back home. We headed up to the castle and palace and the Fisherman's Bastion on the Buda side. The bastion is fairly modern but looks historic, it gives fantastic views over the Danube, the m...