This might have been one of the best days in the last week of so. We started out by taking two metro lines to get to Hero's Square. Our primary objective was Vajdahunyad Castle Vajdahunyad Castle (Vajdahunyad vára) was built between 1896 and 1908 as part of the Millennial Exhibition which celebrated the 1000 years of Hungary since the Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895. The castle was designed by Ignác Alpár to feature copies of se...

As you might have guessed, I've fallen way behind in my blogging. Partying all night long on the cruise has taken it's toll. Finishing every night with an Armagnac, Calvados or Asbach Uralt. Oh my! Asbach Uralt is blended from 25 different wine distillations, aged for about 3 years in, yes.. limousin oak casks. It’s marginally fruitier than a Cognac, the grapes come through – with an ABV of 38%. The Uralt is produced in Rudesheim. Well, to get the b...

To cut a long story short, we bought three day transport tickets so that we could travel around town easily and so that Ches could avoid walking as her hips are really playing up. The Budapest Metro (Hungarian: Budapesti metró) is the rapid transit system in the Hungarian capital Budapest. It is the oldest electrified underground railway system on the European continent, and the second-oldest in the world, predated only by the 1890 City & South London R...

I had almost completed this day and lost the lot. As time is running out as we leave for home in three days, I'll post it now for the photos and rewrite it all later We spent the morning cruising the river into Budapest where we arrived just after lunch. The captain took us up through the city so that we could see (that means photograph) all the major landmarks. The plan was to dock in the middle of town, take a bus tour of the city, return to the ship for din...