Budapest Airport, well its like all others really, planes, lots of people, coffee shops that charge small fortunes for a banana. Its quite a way from the city centre, I'd say a Central London-Heathrow type of journey and we were taken by our guide. Am sure its easily accessible via public transport, everything else in Budapest is to be honest. As for Duty Free, we actually stopped first at a nearby Tesco Hypermarket to stock up on local produce to take home, tha...

They like their festivals and things here - we were lucky enough to go to a chocolate festival being held in the grounds of the National Gallery, the grounds themselves look over the Pest side of the city and you can either walk up the hill (quite steep) or find a parking place and get the cable car. We walked, took a while to be honest, but as with everything here in Budapest, if you make the effort, you are well rewarded. Surprisingly things were priced quite ...

A walk along the banks of The Danube is as romantic as it gets really and after the chocolate festival, me and Monica took quite a long walk at night. From the Buda side of the river, we crossed the beautiful Chain Bridge - we were lucky that it was closed to traffic tonight and it really was so busy with couples enjoying the romance that was being presented to them by the city. We walked past the Parliament Building and on past Margret Bridge, walking parallel...

Budapest is lovely - really is a beautiful city, wall to wall historic buildings and architecture mingles with a smattering of modernisation. It's a delightful mixture and the Hungarians gets the mix absolutely spot on in my book. It's a huge city, a lot bigger than I thought, I'm told it's Europe's 9th largest, and so will be up there with London, Paris, Rome and Moscow etc insofar as size is concerned. There is, and needs to be, a large extensive public transp...

Ok so that's just about it and flight back to England is tomorrow afternoon. I'll sign of now, when I get home, I'll sort out all the spelling mistakes, tidy this all up etc. I'll also add some comments on highlights and lowlights, thanks to various, and stuff like that. Hotel reviews have all been done via Booking.com where there are some scathing comments - one was described as "more like a place for the homeless to doss down for the night" I'm talking you Pr...